NetSuite Introduces SuiteCloud

The SuiteCloud Ecosystem announced today also includes the SuiteCloud Developer
Network (SDN), a comprehensive developer program that helps accelerate the development
of rich business-oriented applications. In addition, SuiteApp.com, NetSuite’s
new online marketplace for ISV-developed applications, or “SuiteApps,”
provides a mechanism for developers to distribute – and for customers
to find – these valuable third-party applications for their NetSuite deployments.

“Providers like Amazon and Google have generated much of the PaaS buzz
to date, but SaaS vendors, like NetSuite, have a unique advantage in the battle
for customers and partners—they have an ‘installed’ base,”
said Ian Finley, a Senior Analyst for AMR. “A company that already has
NetSuite ERP should put SuiteCloud on their short list for PaaS providers. SuiteCloud’s
NS-BOS has a built-in integration advantage over competitors. Independent software
vendors and systems integrators looking to satisfy a niche market’s ERP
needs should consider joining the NetSuite Cloud. NetSuite ERP provides an application
foundation that pure platform providers lack; and, most importantly, a pool
of thousands of customers already committed to NetSuite.” (Source: AMR
Research, “NetSuite Wants You On Their Cloud”)

SuiteCloud is the culmination of NetSuite’s years of leadership in enabling
the complex customization of its SaaS-based Suite. In 2000, NetSuite created
the world’s first integrated SaaS suite, and in doing so delivered the
vital comprehensive ERP, CRM and Ecommerce foundation that underpins its developer
platform. With rapid adoption by both customers and the developer community,
this groundbreaking innovation spurred a series of firsts in extensibility –
including the first SaaS application with custom database objects, the first
introduction of a SaaS-platform programming language (SuiteScript), and the
first fast track for ISVs to deploy commercially available applications to their
customers with SuiteBundler.

“NetSuite is all about helping our customers run their business better,
and SuiteCloud is an important step in furthering this vision,” said Zach
Nelson, CEO of NetSuite. “SuiteCloud enables our partners to build incredible
business-focused applications quickly and help our customers transition their
operations to the future of commerce, Cloud Computing.”

SuiteCloud Developer Network

The SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) is a comprehensive developer program
that spans all aspects of partnering with NetSuite. SDN enables commercial software
developers to quickly go to market with new on-demand business applications
that leverage the power of NetSuite’s core business suite via the NetSuite
Business Operating System (NS-BOS). NS-BOS enables ISVs to build applications
that drive business performance by building on the core of NetSuite’s
ERP, CRM and Ecommerce system. NS-BOS enables ISVs to increase their speed-to-market
because every vertical application interacts with and requires business functions
addressed by the ERP / CRM / Ecommerce functionality of NetSuite, so developers
can focus on their vertical differentiation, rather than spending time on “horizontal”
functionality such as quote or order management. For details on how to become
a member of the SuiteCloud Developer Network, please visit www.netsuite.com/developers.

ISV Partners Offer New SuiteApps

SuiteApps are applications that extend the value of NetSuite for a particular
vertical industry or business need. Most SuiteApps run completely inside NetSuite,
hosted on the same servers and living in the same database. Some SuiteApps are
integrations with other SaaS systems in use by NetSuite customers.

NetSuite today announced a number of ISV partners who have built new SuiteApps
on its SuiteCloud development platform, NS-BOS (NetSuite Business Operating
System), or who have integrated existing applications with NetSuite to take
advantage of its robust ERP functionality, mature business processes and ease
of customization. These ISVs include Five9, Celigo, SuccessFactors, AWhere,
OnSite, OZ Development, Postcode Anywhere, Nolan Computers Plc, Online One,
ePayroll, Adaptive Planning, Rootstock, Daston Corporation, Pervasive, InsideView,
Nulogy, Marketo, BlueBridge One and Integrisign. For more information on these
ISVs, or to learn more about SuiteApp.com, the new online marketplace for SuiteApps,
please visit www.suiteapp.com.

“The SuiteCloud development platform has allowed us to create a tightly
integrated solution for any call center handling front-office or back-office
functions,” said Jim Dvorkin, CTO at Five9, the leading global provider
of on-demand call center software for telemarketing, customer service, and business
continuity. “With our leading technology and experience in enabling efficient
call center operations, this partnership will provide a powerful on-demand alternative
for any company considering premise-based call center and CRM / ERP software.”

“The great thing about an online solution like NetSuite is its ability
to grow ever stronger through the addition of extra tools developed by specialists
like us,” said Guy Mucklow, CEO at Postcode Anywhere, a UK-based company
best known for its market-leading “what’s your postcode” technology,
used to quickly complete an address when buying online. “NetSuite has
already made it easy for us to develop our integration with them, which includes
both international address management and Dun and Bradstreet business information.
Ultimately this saves the end user a staggering amount of hours they would have
spent in developing a similar program themselves. The SuiteCloud Developer Network
is a vibrant developer community and we’re delighted to be joining it.”

NetSuite and Rootstock: Synergy at its Best

One strong example of how the NetSuite development platform helps commercial
software developers get to market quickly is SDN partner Rootstock. RootStock
was launched in 2008 to develop an application that would enable discrete manufacturers
to cut costs, improve processes, and drive revenues. The company’s approach
to this problem was to add engineering change control, cost accounting, shop
floor control, and manufacturing resource planning (MRP) to an enterprise resources
planning (ERP) solution. In so doing, manufacturers could gain centralized,
integrated, and cost-effective control over all key processes across the enterprise.
The problem Rootstock faced in meeting this goal was the high cost of development
and distribution. An on-premise solution would be expensive and time-consuming
to code, and even more costly to market and sell. A SaaS solution might require
less overhead to develop, but establishing a distribution channel would still
be problematic.

Rootstock Software discovered that the key to resolving these challenges was
a development partnership with NetSuite. “By partnering with NetSuite,
we were able to complete our application and bring it to market twice as fast
and at half the cost than would otherwise have been possible,” says Patrick
Garrehy, CEO, Rootstock Software. “As the market leader in the SaaS ERP
market, NetSuite has a large direct sales force, an established and expanding
VAR channel, and an outstanding web site that publishes information about partner
solutions. They open these distribution channels to their development partners,
so we were able to launch our product with minimal sales or marketing investment.”

Equally important to Rootstock was availability of NS-BOS, NetSuite’s
comprehensive application development environment. “NS-BOS,” Garrehy
says, “enabled us to leverage the existing NetSuite ERP platform, our
domain expertise and the SaaS distribution model to create an application that
adds significant value to the NetSuite environment for discrete manufacturers.”
With NS-BOS, the enhancements that Rootstock brings are available to end users
transparently, through the standard NetSuite user interface, and with the same
look and feel as that solution.

About SuiteCloud

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of on-demand products,
development tools and services designed to help customers and commercial software
developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of Cloud computing.
Based on NetSuite, the world’s most widely used Software-as-a-Service
ERP Suite, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations
in the Cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly
created mission-critical business applications built on top of mature and proven
business processes. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s
multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of
applications (Accounting/ERP, CRM, Ecommerce); the NS-BOS Development Platform;
the SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN), a comprehensive developer program for
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs); and SuiteApp.com, a single-source online
marketplace where ISVs, customers and solution providers can find applications
to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information
on SuiteCloud, please visit www.netsuite.com/developers.