NetSuite builds on cloud legacy with 3 key business development planks

May 15, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from ITBusiness.ca. Author: Marylka Empey

My first cloud computing conference, and the anticipation of the crowd is palpable as people from around the globe have gathered at SuiteWorld 2014. The Commonwealth is well represented – so far; I have met Aussies and Brits, as well as an expat Canadian who works for NetSuite in San Mateo – sweet!!

This year’s conference is the biggest SuiteWorld to date; over 6500 attendees, and 200 sessions. There are more than 100 NetSuite partners in attendance, and I learn that an astonishing 70 per cent of all Netsuite implementations are as a result of work involving this group…

This preamble is in contrast to NetSuite’s beginnings, when early employees in 1998 had a big idea of the cloud. During the opening keynote, CEO Zack Nelson outlined that there was a great deal of scepticism and doubt that anything like the cloud could work, and in particular for enterprise resource planning (ERP) because it is the hardest system to build. But NetSuite founders had a vision that they fulfilled to deliver an online system that would enable companies to run their business…

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