SAN MATEO, California, October 24 /PRNewswire/ --
NetSuite Inc., a vendor of on-demand, integrated business management
application suites that provide Accounting/ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and Ecommerce functionality
for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, today
announced that NetSuite partners and solution providers have introduced, via
SuiteBundler, a host of new vertical and micro-vertical solutions spanning
markets including Software; Agriculture Equipment Dealerships (please see
accompanying press release: "Iron Solutions and NetSuite Collaborate to
Develop Industry-Specific Software Solution for Agricultural Equipment
Dealerships, Delivered via NetSuite's SuiteBundler"); Seaport Management;
Retail (Point of Sale); Franchises for packaging and shipping materials;
Electronics Wholesale / Distribution; and Pharmaceutical Distribution.
Additionally they are also leveraging SuiteBundler to deliver valuable add-
ons to core NetSuite functionality in the areas of Fixed Asset Management,
Tax Automation, Human Resource Management and Warranty Management. For more
information about this please visit
http://www.netsuite.com/suitebundlerpartners.
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The introduction of SuiteBundler and its capabilities ushers in a new
concept for the rapidly growing Software as a Service (SaaS) market --
"Service as Software." Just as SaaS transformed the software business in
lowering total costs of ownership and ongoing maintenance, Service as
Software will more radically change the face of implementation and
value-added services delivery by professional consulting service partners.
The introduction of SuiteBundler enables partners to take on this business
model transformation and turn their services expertise into repeatable and
resellable software solutions, built and delivered on NetSuite as complete
SaaS vertical applications to help meet the complex needs of today's
mid-sized businesses. Some of the NetSuite partners and solution providers
who have embraced the Service as Software revolution include:
In the Agricultural Equipment Dealership Vertical:
IRON Solutions (http://www.ironsolutions.com), the leading source of
Equipment Market Intelligence(TM) for agricultural, industrial, and outdoor
power equipment OEMs, dealers, finance and agricultural media companies,
based in Fenton, Mo., is developing and offering industry-specific software
solutions targeting thousands of tractor dealers throughout the country via
SuiteBundler. The new solution combines the power of NetSuite's
lead-to-quote-to-order management capability with IRON Solutions' gold
standard data and family of products including, IRONSearch(TM),
IRONClassifieds(TM), IRONQuote(TM), IRONDealer(TM) and IRONMachinebuilder(TM)
to deliver a tailored offering for thousands of agricultural equipment
dealers for manufacturers such as John Deere and CaseIH.
"We are already seeing tremendous value creation in our alliance with
NetSuite," said IRON Solutions CEO Darwin Melnyk. "NetSuite has a full suite
of powerful CRM and order management products delivered in a highly reliable,
easy to purchase and deploy SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) delivery model. It's
an ideal platform for industry specific rich data and vertical applications
to grow and flourish."
In the Seaport Management Vertical:
EBS-RAD LLC, a Tampa, Fla.-based software developer and NetSuite Solution
Provider has used SuiteBundler to customize and deliver NetSuite as the
"i-Seaports(TM) Management" solution for its client, Harbour Mastery,
Inc. (http://www.harbourmaster.com) to market worldwide to the seaports and
marinas industry.
"Using SuiteBundler allowed us to build a common application on NetSuite,
i-Seaports Management, which we expect should be attractive to over 8,500
deep-water seaports and 50,000 marinas around the world. Within NetSuite, we
created custom dashboards for traffic management, security monitoring,
communications coordination, financial control and ecommerce marketing to be
used by seaports, their clients and security agencies around the world," said
George Walters, CEO of EBS-RAD. "Of particular importance were the security
capabilities we could build in. When the port clicks on the berth number, it
can pop open the webcam to monitor the unloading process. All the security
aspects of a port can be visually monitored -- entrances, warehouses, and
critical assets such as oil and gas tanks. Clicking on a trade-partner port
can pop-open the Automated Identification System (AIS) tracking ships via GIS
for that port. NetSuite had the core global capabilities, including
telephony, emailing, multi-language and multi-currency that seaports and
their clients need for their operations and management -- and SuiteBundler
allows us to readily deploy i-Seaports in a repeatable manner to all
customers."
In the Franchises for Packaging and Shipping Materials Vertical:
Eco Box (http://www.ecobox.com), based in Austin, Texas, is the leading
retailer and wholesaler of new and used moving boxes and shipping supplies.
By leveraging the scalability and multi-organization capabilities of
NetSuite, Eco Box plans to open 250 franchised stores across the U.S. within
the next 5 years.
"NetSuite has allowed us to customize the business processes specific to
our shipping materials distribution franchise -- all written with SuiteScript
and SuiteTalk," said Dale Malone, President of Eco Box. "Our industry
solution shows when our trucks are going to deliver the boxes. When a sales
order is created, it lets the customers know when the truck will be there.
Another example is our 'Box Buy' program, which automatically populates the
fields of vendor, price, location and the whole process of buying back used
boxes. And now, with SuiteBundler, the great part is that any enhancements we
make on our forms with SuiteScript and SuiteTalk are readily available to our
franchisees. We plan to open 250 franchised stores across the U.S. in the
next five years, and NetSuite and SuiteBundler are helping to make that
possible."
In the Electronics Wholesale Distribution Vertical:
Into Technology International Limited, based in St Helens, Merseyside
(UK), developed Intoscape (http://www.intoscape.com), a SuiteBundler solution
for companies that manage large numbers of items in Web-based, catalogue and
telesales environments, where price and stock movements may be frequent and
volatile and daily competitor activity influences published prices.
"What attracted us to use NetSuite SuiteBundler was that it allowed us to
integrate everything NetSuite has to offer with our own vertical-industry
solution, Intoscape. Now we have the perfect solution for companies managing
large catalogues with a small team of personnel. If a wholesale/distributor
is procuring combinations of products from a range of suppliers and wants to
deliver value and wider choice to customers, while at the same time
increasing profits, Intoscape and NetSuite are the perfect combination."
In the Fixed Asset Management Vertical:
Nolan Computers (http://www.nolancomputers.com), a NetSuite Solution
Provider based in Vernon Yard, Fleet (UK), SuiteBundled its Fixed Asset
solution, which is used by non-U.S. companies for accurately tracking,
controlling and depreciating assets.
"It's a significant thing that we are able to deliver our popular Fixed
Asset solution as another module within NetSuite," said Tim Nolan, CEO of
Nolan Computers. "SuiteBundler makes it extremely nice and slick for us to
deliver this to customers, so they can't even tell where NetSuite's
functionality ends, and ours begins. We have learned that a smooth installation
is the one piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is massively important to make a
happy customer."
In the Tax Automation Vertical:
Avalara (http://www.avalara.com), headquartered on Bainbridge Island,
Wash., produced AvaTax, a service that provides an automated end-to-end sales
tax compliance to over 10,000 users including sales tax calculation,
reporting, returns filing and remittances.
"Avalara is focused on making Sales Tax compliance less taxing for our
customers. We used the NetSuite's SuiteFlex technology to develop a user
friendly, smooth integration with NetSuite. Using SuiteBundler, NetSuite
customers can now easily subscribe to the AvaTax service, a fast, easy,
accurate and affordable way to manage the sales tax compliance function.
AvaTax is offered as a service just like NetSuite, making it a great fit,"
said Ranjit Mulgaonkar, VP of Business Development, Avalara, Inc. and
President of Avalara India.
In the Warranty Management Vertical:
Explore Consulting (http://www.exploreconsulting.com), based in Bellevue,
Wash., is a NetSuite Solution Provider who has created a warranty management
solution for NetSuite. Based on Suitelet technology, the warranty management
solution allows companies to collect key product and demographic information
from customers and provides real-time data verification and a dynamic
interface to enhance the end customer experience and eliminate manual
processes.
"Suitelet technology has opened the door for us to build powerful
extensions to the NetSuite platform, and SuiteBundler completes the picture
by giving us a mechanism to package and distribute the solutions quickly,"
said Steve Jones, CEO of Explore Consulting. "We are excited about the
opportunities that these tools are providing."
In the Pharmaceutical Distribution and HR Verticals:
Epiphany Inc. (http://www.epiphanyinc.biz), a NetSuite Solution Provider
based in Houston, created PedigreeNet, a SuiteBundle allowing pharmaceutical
distributors to track the origin of the drugs ordered and add their
information to the pedigree when the drug is sold from their location.
Tracking pedigrees is a federally mandated requirement and therefore critical
for all pharmaceutical distributors. In addition, using NetSuite's
SuiteBundler functionality, Epiphany created a human resources (HR) module to
allow users to provide job postings, online applicant forms, auto-creation of
newly hired employees, benefits tracking, reporting and more.
"The SuiteFlex platform and SuiteBundler capability is a compelling
combination -- allowing us to provide the flexibility to meet a wide range of
customer requirements for both usability and functional needs," said Brenda
Brinkley, President of Epiphany Inc. "Further, the fact that NetSuite
maintains these customizations and modules for upgrades makes NetSuite a
completely new breed of software provider. Our revenues increased by 100
percent between the second and third year of reselling NetSuite."
About NetSuite
NetSuite Inc. is a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business
management application suites for small and medium-sized businesses. NetSuite
enables companies to manage core key business operations in a single system,
which includes Accounting/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer
Relationship Management (CRM), and Ecommerce. NetSuite's patent-pending
"real-time dashboard" technology provides an easy-to-use view into
up-to-date, role-specific business information.
NOTE: NetSuite, the NetSuite logo, SuiteFlex, and SuiteBundler are
registered service-marks or trademarks of NetSuite, Inc.
Web site: http://www.netsuite.com
http://www.ironsolutions.com
http://www.harbourmaster.com
http://www.ecobox.com
http://www.intoscape.com
http://www.nolancomputers.com
http://www.avalara.com
http://www.exploreconsulting.com
http://www.epiphanyinc.biz
NetSuite Inc.
