NetSuite and Microsoft Team Up in the Cloud

May 5, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ReCode. Author: ARIK HESSELDAHL.

NetSuite, the cloud business software company, announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft that will tie its products closely to both Office 365 and the Azure cloud computing service. The plan calls for Microsoft to integrate NetSuite’s cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning software that companies use to track their financial, supply chain and other operational data, to Office 365, the cloud-based office suite.

Additionally, Azure will become NetSuite’s preferred cloud platform for building custom software enhancements to NetSuite. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson announced the tie-up in a speech in San Jose, Calif., at the company’s SuiteWorld conference. Nelson said the partnership was the result of a series of meetings with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella…

“Historically, we haven’t had much of a relationship with Microsoft, in fact they’re kind of a competitor,” Nelson said in an interview Monday. “But Satya is really interested in partnerships for Office 365. … I dropped him an email a few months ago and we found a few places we could work together.”…

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