Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ironclad
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Ironclad, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is designed to streamline every part of the contract process—so users can focus on legal work, not paperwork.N/A
SAP Ariba
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
With advanced tools to automate manual processes and support close collaboration with suppliers, SAP Ariba helps streamline source-to-pay processes across organizations.N/A
Pricing
IroncladSAP Ariba
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IroncladSAP Ariba
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
IroncladSAP Ariba
Considered Both Products
Ironclad
Chose Ironclad
IronClad is a comprehensive platform that allows legal teams, cross functional teams and approvers to keep track of the suggestions and changes made to legal agreements. It keeps everything in a single place, however it lacks the simplicity and practicality of DocuSign …
Chose Ironclad
Ironclad is a well-designed product, especially for a very configurable workflow designer and team collaboration feature. In addition, DocuSign has a critical issue, which is a multi-instance account issue. If you have multiple contracts with Docusign including design and CLM …
SAP Ariba
Chose SAP Ariba
Reputation, ease of use, known commodity
Chose SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba offers the most out of the box features that fit our needs compared to others. No solution offers this much. while still lacking, it is the best option. We've reached that conclusion many times and its been verified by several different groups.
Chose SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba faciltates the procurmemntprocess enabling businesses to source and purchase goods from suppliers through Purchase requisitions and integration with ERP systems. It automates the entire procurement process froy identifying suppliers to paying supplies and is very …
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Reporting, customization, tasks lists.
Chose SAP Ariba
For PR and PO process, we do in SAP ECC and we want after completion of RFP request PR will be generate automatically. So we find a tool which is compatible with SAP ECC to automate PR activity. In Oracle Procurement tool, it is not possible. So we don't have another option …
Chose SAP Ariba
Since we adopted S/4HANA it's a great match in interfaces and user experience + we're an implementation partner itself so the entire project was a bit of a learning ground for us as well
Chose SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba is the most established. However, I think the others are more easy to use and agile
Chose SAP Ariba
CMS system has less functionalities for the contract management and is not so flexible and user friendy.
No SAP Solution, which is in contradiction of our company IT strategy.
Full compliance with Internal company security requirements.
Chose SAP Ariba
I don't have experience on any similar product.
Chose SAP Ariba
Coupa is more for small volumes and SAP Ariba Procurement is the perfect solution fo larger enterprises.
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SAP procurement solutions provide tools, services, and expertise to reduce financial and operational disruptions, meet workforce and customer needs, and lower supplier risk and market uncertainty.
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Chose SAP Ariba
It's important to note that user experiences may vary, and the perceived areas for improvement depend on the specific needs and expectations of each organization. Frequent updates and feedback from users often guide software developers in addressing these areas to enhance the …
Chose SAP Ariba
It improves over all vendor management system of an organization by providing less costly ways of procurement and making business simple. AribaSAP Ariba digitally transforms your supply chain, procurement and contract management process. acts as supply chain, procurement …
Chose SAP Ariba
The main purpose to select Ariba as main tool is to centralize the procurement database as one procurement.
Features
IroncladSAP Ariba
Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
Ironclad
5.3
Ratings
40% below category average
SAP Ariba
-
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Contract creation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract templates10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields1.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Guided logic1.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Ironclad
10.0
Ratings
19% above category average
SAP Ariba
-
Ratings
Contract sharing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract editing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
MS Word plug-in10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval process10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Ironclad
4.6
Ratings
57% below category average
SAP Ariba
-
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Contract database6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract search7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts1.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom contract reports5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Tracking contract status5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance check1.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Management
Comparison of Contract Management features of Product A and Product B
Ironclad
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
SAP Ariba
-
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Contract Storage10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced Search and Filtering7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Contract Templates8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Acceleration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
E-Signatures10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reminders and Alerts4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with other Systems5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
IroncladSAP Ariba
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.7
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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7.0
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Usability
8.0
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7.9
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Support Rating
9.0
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5.5
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Implementation Rating
-
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7.3
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User Testimonials
IroncladSAP Ariba
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it worked realllly well at my previous company where we used it for a very simple form that just required one simple signature from both sides- this was a form used to record custom pricing/discounts for a product that typically was not discounted. In my current role, there are many more required fields on the form/contract, and can be multiple levels of approvals on one side, and then possibly multiple levels of approvals/signatures on the other side. I've never used another solution in the exact same way (like DocuSign) to be able to compare experiences, but on Ironclad, understanding where I am in the completion process can be confusing. Within the app, I wish it was more of just a checklist or schedule of what needs to happen, but it's not written out that clearly. Lastly, there is something wrong with our notifications (I'm not sure if this is specific to my company's settings)- I frequently get 'contract completed' or 'contract signed' email notifications even if that hasn't occurred. They seem to correlate with updating the form or refreshing the sync from SFDC.
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SAP Ariba is pivotal for our organization's supply chain requirements. The purchasing department needs it for vendor purchase order issuance and vendor order management. We can check procurement history for the last purchased price, standard price, price breaks, lead time for products, vendor, and alternate vendor details.
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Pros
  • Ironclad is extremely easy to use, without providing much specific direction to new users.
  • It's wonderful to be able to capture the progress of contracts and requests as well as the notes regarding the status.
  • It's easy to tag another colleague into a workflow for their input and approvals as necessary.
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  • Complete Procurement of Inventory step easy through GUI-Ariba integration once Purchase order is created and it is sent to the SAP Ariba Supplier Network. Vendor confirms the order and sends notification of Inbound Delivery to the warehouse through ASN and the Inbound process, Goods Receipt Process, Unloading, Put away process easy.
  • SAP Ariba integrates the different SAP Sourcing platforms, services and their tools in order to optimize operations, saves cost and meeting customer requirements through its easy to use tools. Such as integration with SAP S/4 HANA, SAP EWM using Idocs for End to End sourcing and Procurement coverage.
  • As a part of the SAP Direct Sourcing suite, it helps allow customer manage their direct materials in the single dashboard and helping customer to have view of the comprehensive info about BoM and the structure. Based on requirements, buyers can run materials and/or entire Bill of Materials. When these are sent from ERP to SAP Ariba, managers can manage them in the direct spend dashboard. Can search for desired items in the dashboard and view details of BoM or deeper view of information of the material. Buyers can run sourcing, run details for materials, create material quotes, and create pricing using book quotes.
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Cons
  • Interface is suboptimal
  • It has to be easier to set up new documents and fields. I had to hire a consultant to do the work because it's simply not easy or intuitive
  • AI capability is suboptimal. Often, suggested text has nothing to do with the topic being indexed
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  • Integration with other tools is not very good. The APIs provided are not scheduled within the Ariba process and must use a middleware to send information back and forth between tools
  • Customer support for configuration questions. The response time can be weeks or months waiting time and the response back is often unhelpful.
  • Flexibility with company entities. With a large company with so many entities it is hard to structure and customize your suppliers into many entities. You often have to duplicate.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Established product and we are now using it as a mean for our procurement transformation
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Usability
I think it does all the things I need, and it can be simple to use, but it can also be confusing and not intuitive the more functionality you take advantage of. I am especially frustrated by false "form completed" notifications that I receive not only when forms have actually been completed, but also when they've been refreshed from SFDC or otherwise updated.
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While its great at usability. I would love ut have it more simplified. I would like to advocate for some personas who are non tech savvy or who have less or no experience in procurement. I sometimes feel that the valley of user learning fir such personas is quite steep and it may take them long time of learning to get adept to the platform.
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Support Rating
I haven't used the support services for IronClad, but I understand from our legal team, the support is very good, they have replied and provide solutions quickly and effectively. I have used the documentation and support pages which are very complete and which have been updated given the user interface updates.
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Customer support has always been top notch. From small configuration changes to overall process changes, support has the teammates in place with excellent knowledge and is able to provide solutions based on business challenges quickly. Their customer support through their Account teams continues to be hands on and very responsive to needs in a timely fashion.
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Alternatives Considered
IronClad is a comprehensive platform that allows legal teams, cross functional teams and approvers to keep track of the suggestions and changes made to legal agreements. It keeps everything in a single place, however it lacks the simplicity and practicality of DocuSign throughout the signing process, so we usually have to use both platforms to complete a legal workforce
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It's important to note that user experiences may vary, and the perceived areas for improvement depend on the specific needs and expectations of each organization. Frequent updates and feedback from users often guide software developers in addressing these areas to enhance the overall user satisfaction with the platform
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Return on Investment
  • Increased employee efficiency.
  • Easily supervised contract application status.
  • Easily managed active/inactive contracts.
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  • We saved nearly 10% of planned costs due to the large database of vendors we created within the company as a whole.
  • Saving in time due to shortening of procurement cycles. Procurement activities were never on the critical path and were accomplished with less Supply Chain resources than originally planned.
  • In the process we created a huge database of Vendors and Pricing which well be beneficial in our future projects.
  • It is an excellent tool and just what are business required and could afford.
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ScreenShots

SAP Ariba Screenshots

Screenshot of the advanced tools that automate manual processes and support close collaboration with suppliers. The SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing solution help streamline procure-to-pay processes across organizations.Screenshot of SAP Ariba's digitalization, which covers processes from contract requests, authoring, and workflows to negotiation, approval, and execution for lower costs and improved relationships.Screenshot of an instance of SAP Ariba's support for industry-specific processes and systems. This helps process manufacturers, retailers, and discrete manufacturers that rely on external manufacturers to capture more savings by improving source-to-contract processes and supplier collaboration.Screenshot of the digitalizing and automating of invoice management over a global business network, in SAP Ariba. This delivers visibility and efficiency to capture more early-payment discounts and optimize working capital.