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The Cloud – Making Line of Business

Projects a Reality

Technology without the Cross Charges!

Before The Project

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Why automate the

Sourcing process?

Why did you

consider the cloud

for the deployment

model?

What were your staff

considerations

related to this

project?

Going Live in the Cloud – Using Deployment Descriptions

to Insure Clarity

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Focus on Business Outcomes – not setting up servers

The Implementation

Resourced with Our Staff

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• Disaster recovery site – Maintained

by Ariba with full data mirroring and

offsite back ups

• Support – Front line user support

provided by Ariba

• Supplier Support - Provided by Ariba

• Upgrades – Occur once a year with 6

weeks advanced time for change

management and readiness

• Enhancements – Voted on by the user

community

All We Do is Use It

Making it personal - Cubist Results?

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Nov. 11, 2013 April 4, 2014

Cubist signs

up for

Sourcing Pro

First Sourcing

Event

launched

April 17, 2014

First Sourcing

Event

concluded

Sourcing

Event

Cycle time

Impact on

Price

Information

and

Control

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Questions?

Thank You!