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Short Take: Ariba teams with AMS for e-commerce

Ariba is partnering with consulting firm American Management Systems to deliver e-commerce to get government agencies buying goods and supplies online. The deal is intended to enable these agencies to connect to Ariba's network, where they can purchase from suppliers and take advantage of lower prices through group purchasing online. Ariba's eCommerce software allows users to capture and send purchases over the Web to suppliers on the Ariba Network platform.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Kim Girard
Ariba is partnering with consulting firm American Management Systems to deliver e-commerce to get government agencies buying goods and supplies online. The deal is intended to enable these agencies to connect to Ariba's network, where they can purchase from suppliers and take advantage of lower prices through group purchasing online. Ariba's eCommerce software allows users to capture and send purchases over the Web to suppliers on the Ariba Network platform.