SAP Ariba spoke release notes
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Summary of SAP Ariba spoke release notes
The SAP Ariba Spoke on the ServiceNow Store enables seamless integration between ServiceNow and SAP Ariba by providing a comprehensive set of actions that interact with Ariba’s SOAP and REST APIs as well as the Integration Toolkit (ITK). This spoke supports complex procurement workflows by facilitating communication and data exchange between the two platforms. It is designed with extendability in mind to accommodate SAP Ariba’s high customization capabilities.
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ServiceNow customers leveraging this spoke can automate procurement processes, manage requisitions, supplier bids, and sourcing events efficiently within the ServiceNow environment.
Key Features
- Wide range of spoke actions added progressively via multiple releases, including REST-based actions and those supporting ITK integration.
- Authentication templates to simplify connection setup to SAP Ariba.
- Support for managing requisitions, sourcing events, supplier bids, and attachments with actions to create, update, cancel, and look up records.
- Security improvements, including patches for access control lists (ACLs) and system property vulnerabilities.
- Support for new ServiceNow platform features such as Xanadu Zip step for unzipping files directly within workflows.
- Organized action categories aligned with connection and credential alias names for easier configuration.
- Sample workflows and subflows demonstrating typical use cases, such as updating requisitions.
- Deprecated outdated actions and updated data types to maintain compatibility and performance.
Key Outcomes
- Improved automation and integration of procurement processes between ServiceNow and SAP Ariba, reducing manual effort.
- Enhanced security posture through regular patches and ACL updates.
- Greater flexibility and extensibility to meet complex procurement scenarios due to support for ITK and REST APIs.
- Streamlined setup and maintenance of integrations via authentication templates and organized action groups.
- Ability to handle file attachments and data formats efficiently within ServiceNow workflows.
- Continuous improvements and new features delivered through regular version updates to keep pace with platform enhancements and customer needs.
Version history for the SAP Ariba spoke on the ServiceNow Store.
Version history
- Version 1.15.0 - June 2026
- Security patch on non-glide ACLs
- Version 1.14.0 - March 2026
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- Added Cancel Requisition.
- Fixed: Remove unnecessary mandatory inputs from create and update requisition.
- Version 1.13.0 - February 2026
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- Added a sample agentic workflow
- Fixed:
- Added role masking for the AI Agents
- Security vulnerability for a system property
- Version 1.12.0 - December 2025
- Added 2 actions and 10 new AI Agents
- Version 1.11.0 - November 2025
- Added 5 more actions.
- Version 1.10.2 - July 2025
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- Fixed:
- Deprecated outdated sample subflow and actions.
- Deprecated "Create Event Line Items" action and replaced it with a new action by updating the datatype of Quantity and Amount fields to number.
- Fixed:
- Version 1.10.0 - June 2025
- Added 1 spoke action.
- Version 1.9.1 - January 2025
- Fixed: Response Timestamp field missing in Look up Pending Messages ID CXML action.
- Version 1.9.0 - December 2024
- Added 5 new spoke actions.
- Version 1.8.0 - October 2024
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- Security updates on MID script includes
- Added FieldID output field to Create Sourcing Event, Look up Supplier Bids, and Look up Upstream Supplier actions
- Support more formats for Download Attachment from Supplier Bid action response
- Version 1.7.0 - September 2024
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- Incorporated the new Xanadu Zip step feature into the Spoke Actions to unzip the file directly within the ServiceNow platform
- Fixed Update Requisition Action to create/update new/existing requisition lines accordingly
- Created a sample outbound Subflow to show how to update the requisition and requisition lines
- Fixed size limits for both Create Item Attachments and Create Requisition Actions
- Version 1.6.1 - August 2024
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- Added 10 actions.
- Renamed the action category and group the associated actions to match with the corresponding connection and credential alias names as much as possible.
- Version 1.5.0 - June 2024
- Added 8 actions.
- Version 1.4.1 - May 2024
- Added 8 actions.
- Version 1.3.1 - April 2024
- Added 12 actions, mostly REST based.
- Version 1.3.0 - March 2024
- Added 14 new REST based actions.
- Version 1.2.0 - February 2024
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Changed: Updated Spoke action labels and documentation to avoid confusion and emphasize the fact that the SAP's deprecation news of ITK has no impact on this spoke.
- Version 1.1.2 - December 2023
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Fixed:
- Missing OOB 'report_view' ACLs for platform tables owned by [Business Area].
- Multiple flows configured to run as System.
- Version 1.1.1 - October 2023
- Fixed: Execute Ariba Export Action - Export Supplier Organizations (CSV) Sourcing event to download and unzip attachments.
- Version 1.1.0 - September 2023
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- Added authentication template
- Fixed: Get Ariba Additional fields Action: Add Metadata in the suffix and mark active field as false
- Version 1.0.7 - April 2023
- Improved installation performance.
- Version 1.0.5 - June 2022
- Fixed: Patch release of SAP Ariba Spoke. This version includes a fix for the inability to activate flows when actions have empty values for mandatory fields.
- Version 1.0.4 - February 2022
- Fixed: Patch version of SAP Ariba Spoke for IntegrationHub. This version fixes icon issues within flows.
- Version 1.0.3 - November 2020
- Patch release of the SAP Ariba spoke for IntegrationHub.
- Version 1.0.1 - September 2020
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- New:
- The SAP Ariba Spoke provides a list of actions that interact with SAP Ariba. It provides the foundation to interact with Ariba's SOAP and REST API, as well as ITK (Integration Toolkit).
- Given that SAP Ariba is a highly customizable system, SAP Ariba Spoke also showcases the design pattern that can support additional ITKs beyond what is out of the box.
- When both ServiceNow and SAP Ariba do procurement together, the possibilities are endless.
- New: