As previously announced, the deployment of Ariba On-Demand Release 12s1 will begin on August 4, 2012.  This notification contains important information about specific scheduled deployment downtime and an updated feature.

Upgrade to Release 12s1:  We currently expect to begin the upgrade to Release 12s1 at 8:00 am US Pacific Time on Saturday, August 4, 2012*.

• You do not have to do anything to request or accept the upgrade.
• Your data, system configuration, and personalization will not be affected.

Maintenance Window Scheduled maintenance will occur from 04 Aug 2012 at 08:00 AM PDT through 04 Aug 2012 at 02:30 PM PDT.  For your reference:        New York:  from 04 Aug 2012 at 11:00 AM through 04 Aug 2012 at 05:30 PM        Paris:  from 04 Aug 2012 at 05:00 PM through 04 Aug 2012 at 11:30 PM        Singapore:  from 04 Aug 2012 at 11:00 PM through 05 Aug 2012 at 05:30 AM

Products Impacted Ariba Contract Management Basic Ariba Contract Management Pro Ariba Sourcing Basic Ariba Sourcing Pro Ariba Spend Visibility Basic Ariba Spend Visibility Pro Ariba StartContracts Ariba StartSourcing Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management Ariba Supplier Information Management

Maintenance Details The previously listed product(s) will not be available during this time. This maintenance will not affect any of your existing data. If you have questions, please visit Ariba Connect and contact Ariba Customer Support.

Feature Update:  Supplier Profile – Public Company Name.  Ariba has added a new organization-level field to the Supplier Profile, Public Company Name.  This field captures the sellers’ company name as provided by the seller in their Ariba Cloud Profile.  All updates made to this field by the seller will be synchronized with your supplier record.  Additionally, the existing organization-level field in the Supplier Profile, Organization Name, will not be synchronized with the sellers’ Ariba Cloud Profile.  Customers can continue to manage / use the Organization Name field as today.

To learn more about the exciting features planned for this release, please visit the Early Access tab on Ariba Connect.  Included on Ariba Connect is valuable information regarding release timing, recorded feature demonstrations, release documentation and a summary of the changes to the Ariba Terms. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to become more familiar with these features so that you can further extend the benefits of your Ariba solutions. Ariba will continue to update this portal with information leading up to the general availability of this release.

Sincerely,

Ariba Release Readiness

*This information reflects the status of Ariba's planning as of July 2012, and the features and release schedule discussed are subject to change at any time without notice. Ariba assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions and nothing in this notice should be construed to represent any commitment by Ariba to include any specific new features in any version of the Ariba solutions.