{"id":1724,"date":"2012-05-23T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2282853"},"modified":"2012-05-23T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:43:51","slug":"sap-to-acquire-ariba-for-4-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sap-to-acquire-ariba-for-4-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAP on Tuesday announced its intention to buy Ariba for $4.3 billion, a 19 percent premium on Ariba&#8217;s market capitalization.<br \/>\nThe move comes soon after SAP&#8217;s SuccessFactors February buy and shows that SAP is quickly and aggressively acquiring its way to a full cloud business services capability. The announcement caps SAP&#8217;s user conference last week and the cloud and data services news from it, including cloud suite offerings like SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Business One.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2282853\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP on Tuesday announced its intention to buy Ariba for $4.3 billion, a 19 percent premium on Ariba&#8217;s market capitalization.<br \/>\nThe move comes soon after SAP&#8217;s SuccessFactors February buy and shows that SAP is quickly and aggressively acquiring its way to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}