Seven things you must know before ??implementing an on-demand enterprise solution. After spending over twenty years implementing large scale on-premise ERP systems such as SAP?, I was very excited when the opportunity to implement ARIBA, an on-demand, in-cloud enterprise solution, came my way. Our? customer, a US-based multi-billion dollar consumer goods company specializing in a variety of chicken and turkey products, had engaged us (www.LeanAxis.com) to implement ARIBA for their spend management. I remember ARIBA from my Y2K days. The B2B space was hot. Companies like ARIBA and Commerce One were redefining the way enterprises did business. They were a challenge to the archaic functionality and outdated implementation methodology of traditional ERP solutions. Leading solutions, such as SAP?, were too complex. Customers spent way too much money on implementations, most of which ran over budget, while realizing little ROI. It was inevitable that some innovative upstart companies would come up with better ways of doing things and transform the business of transformation. One innovation was software delivered as a utility. You paid to activate it, then you paid as you used it, much the way you paid for home cable service. As with cable service, you could cancel at any