Thanks Ian
Whilst I'd be happy to be wrong, but I suspect I already know the answer I.e. that there are no facilities. To some extent this is not surprising in that it was never a core competency for Ariba
That said, the CMIS standard has been available for many years, so there is little basis for not addressing this requirement through enabling such an integration. This would obviate the need for Ariba to invest further in such facilities , but also avoid customers having to have compensatory business processes to manage such information to meet their respective regulatory, legal and audit obligations.
One option, if nothing is already in place or under development, is to leverage SAP's very extensive partnership with OpenText where there are productised and cross-sold offerings using OpenText Content Server ( which supports CMIS) . Likewise CMIS support would provide Ariba customers with a myriad of ECM options outside of the SAP/OpenText ecosystem e.g. EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, HiLand etc
I can only hope that there is an Ariba reply at some stage
Regards
Ian