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Customers Achieve Efficiency and Cost Savings with NetSuite Banking as a Service
Posted by Scott Derksen, Senior Director of Business Development For decades, business owners have been frustrated by the need to use disparate point solutions to run their businesses. NetSuite’s value proposition is driven by its ability to consolidate these processes into a single system, driving out cost and delighting…
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OpenAir October 2018 Release – Production Upgrade Saturday October 13, 2018 6:00 AM ET
OpenAir October 2018 Release – Production Upgrade Notification This communication is to notify you of scheduled downtime while we upgrade your OpenAir production account to the OpenAir October 2018 Release.OpenAir Production Upgrade: Saturday October 13, 2018beginning at 6:00 AM ET. Estimated downtime is 6-10…
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How Toad & Co. Devised a Winning Omnichannel Retail Strategy
Posted by Ian McCue, Content Manager Modern customers don’t think in channels when shopping – they move between a physical store, online store and mobile app without a second thought. Socially-responsible apparel retailer Toad & Co. saw this paradigm shift happening right before its eyes three or four years ago and began…
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The Support Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Needed to Continue Making a Difference for Childhood Ca
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast September marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation continues to support the cause in a massive way—not only this month, but every day of every month throughout the year. Alex’s Lemonade Stand was started in…
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Transavia Takes Off After Pivot to Low Cost Venture
Posted by Barney Beal, Content Director Transavia Airlines had humble beginnings, operating as a charter service in the Netherlands in 1965. Its first flight carried the Dutch Ballet Orchestra and the Dutch Dance Theatre from Amsterdam to Naples and back. But those humble beginnings were just a starting point for the…
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd Talks NetSuite, Cloud and Security
SuiteWorld18 featured a number of incredible business leaders, including fashion entrepreneur Rachel Zoe, basketball legend and investor Magic Johnson, and inspiring founders like Kara Goldin the CEO of Hint. From motivating keynotes to educational breakouts, attendees came to Las Vegas this past April to learn how they…
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How to Scale Your Nonprofit with the Right Balance of Business and Passion
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of The NetSuite Podcast Contrary to popular belief, nonprofit organizations aren’t run solely on donations, passion and the gumption to generate social change. Though those are all factors that support a nonprofit, a successful organization must also strike the perfect…
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Butcher Turned Entrepreneur and Social Provocateur Share Secrets to Their Success
Posted by Barney Beal, Content Director Put a couple of Irishmen on a couch and ask them a few questions about growing a business and you’re almost sure to get some interesting stories. When one of them is Pat Phelan, a butcher, turned chef, turned serial entrepreneur who founded Trustev, and sold it to Transunion for $60…
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Oracle NetSuite Offers Free Implementations, Discounts for Trapped Planning and Budgeting Customers
Posted by Tom Kelly, Senior Director of Product Marketing When it comes to planning and budgeting, finance departments have never had it easy. For many, finance teams still conduct planning and budgeting with time-consuming, inefficient manual processes and basic tools. That leaves finance wasting resources on collecting,…
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OpenAir - October 2018 Release Preview | New Opt-In Process
OpenAir - October 2018 Release Preview | New Opt-In Process With the OpenAir 2018.2 release, there is a new process for obtaining a Release Preview environment. Customers will have to actively opt-in in order to get a Release Preview environment. If you would like a Release Preview instance, you must contact OpenAir…
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OpenAir | Internet Explorer v11
OpenAir | Internet Explorer v11 As a final reminder, OpenAir will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 for our older user interface (UI3) on October 13, 2018. IE11 support for our new user interface (UI4) was stopped on May 22, 2018.We are making this change because IE11 has many limitations and it is made obsolete by…
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OpenAir October 2018 Release – Sandbox Upgrade Notification
OpenAir October 2018 Release – Sandbox Upgrade Notification This communication is to notify you of scheduled downtime while we upgrade accounts on sandbox.openair.com to the OpenAir October 2018 Release.OpenAir Sandbox Upgrade: Saturday September 22, 2018 beginning at 6:00 AM ET. Estimated downtime is 4-8…
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Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the Next Generation of NetSuite Service Delivery
Posted by Brian Chess, Global VP of Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance Oracle Cloud Infrastructure blends all of the advantages of the public cloud with the control, security, and predictability of on-prem infrastructure to deliver high-performance, high availability, and cost-effective infrastructure services.…
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Mighty AI Provides the ‘Ground Truth’ for Self-Driving Cars
Posted by Christopher Lam, Senior Director Customer Success To fulfill the promise of self-driving cars, the systems that run them must be able to tell the difference between a car and a dumpster, a dotted yellow line from a straight line and thousands of other objects. That’s where the rubber meets the road for…
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How Michelson Found Animals Foundation Became a Pet’s Best Friend
Posted by Morgan Carey, Nonprofit Industry Marketing Lead When Aimee Gilbreath was 12 years old, her parents, recognizing her desire to one day become a veterinarian, had her shadow the animal doctor on their horse farm for a day. She didn’t become a vet. She got a degree in molecular biology, an MBA, and went to work for…
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Planning and Budgeting: Finance’s Longtime Riddle
Posted by Tom Kelly, Senior Director of Product Marketing It’s been over two decades since former General Electric boss Jack Welch described companywide budgeting to Fortune magazine as “the bane of corporate America.” Yet, while planning and budgeting are vital to smart, fact-based business decision-making, many finance…
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Precision Medical Grows Revenue 70%, Streamlines Operations in Rapid Move to the Cloud
Posted by Ian McCue, Content Manager Precision Medical Products experienced the early success every startup covets, growing exponentially every year. But as the company, which sells gloves for medical and industrial workers as well as durable medical equipment like braces, boots and crutches, shipped more and more product…
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Learning Cloud Support: Your All-Access Pass to Business Success
Posted by Dean Sprankling, VP Worldwide Education Services If you’re like me, you have a growing list of things you’ll eventually get around to: the gym, the book collecting dust on the nightstand, organizing that cluttered desk. Setting aside a big chunk of time is almost impossible – which is why flexibility is key to…
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By Disrupting the Office Space Industry, The Executive Centre Creates Spaces for Innovation
Posted by Ronen Naishtein, Oracle NetSuite GM, Asia, HK & TW From conference room walls made of whiteboards to wallpapered cubicles, even a cursory tour of The Executive Centre in Sydney’s Barangaroo, immediately conveys that this is no traditional workspace. When the company launched in 1994, it set out to be just that –…
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Jim McGeever Reveals the Top Barrier to Growth for Any Company of Any Size
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of the NetSuite Podcast As the EVP of Oracle’s NetSuite Global Business Unit, Jim McGeever knows a thing or two about running a company. But more than that, he’s an expert in continued growth—even with a business generating over $1 billion of revenue a year. So what’s…
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How to Turn Finance into a True Business Partner to Help Drive Growth
Posted by Thomas Sutter, Financial Centre of Excellence The term business partnering has been in the finance lexicon for a number of years now. It’s one of those phrases that you might associate with the most sophisticated organisations – with lots of resources to invest in developing accountants to support the business…
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Oracle NetSuite Named a Leader for Point-of-Sale Software by IDC
Posted by Ian McCue, Content Manager Market research firm IDC recently recognized Oracle NetSuite as a leading vendor for point-of-sale software for small and midsize apparel and accessories retailers. Oracle NetSuite earned the placement on the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale Software in Small and Midsize Retail…
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Continuous Accounting: An End to Period-end Chaos?
Posted by David Hope, Client Success Specialist, EMEA For many finance professionals, closing the books at the end of a financial period is synonymous with long days and late nights spent wading through journal entries and seemingly endless reconciliations. It’s arguably one of least enjoyable aspects of the job, with its…
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Is This the Golden Age of Private Equity?
Posted by Emily Houghton, Industry Marketing Lead Unsure about the benefits of private equity backing? Don’t be. It turns out that “Private equity backed, middle market businesses have a long history of outperforming their non-private equity-backed counterparts,” said Pat Morris, the President and CEO at the Association…
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3 Tips for Facing The Amazon B2B Behemoth
Posted by Hayley Null, Manufacturing Industry Marketing Lead In the manufacturing and distribution industries, the most recent – and likely the most profound – disruption is the rise of Amazon Business, Amazon’s B2B marketplace and platform. In the final part of a webinar series on Amazon and product companies, NetSuite…
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Today, Tomorrow and the Next 20 Years for NetSuite
Posted by Evan Goldberg, Founder and EVP of Development, Oracle NetSuite This year marks the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] anniversary of NetSuite. And while a lot of things have changed since 1998, our mission hasn’t wavered: Enabling organizations to realize their vision by delivering a complete suite of applications to run their…
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Why You Need to Consider Your Global Growth Strategy Right Now
Posted by Kendall Fisher, Executive Producer and Host of the NetSuite Podcast When starting a company, global expansion may not be at the top of your priority list—but it should be. On this episode of the NetSuite Podcast, I sat down to discuss international growth with NetSuite’s in-house expert: Group Vice President of…
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International Operations: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Posted by David Hope, Client Success Specialist, EMEA When a company first sets up shop in a new country, it will often rely on third-party advisors from a local accountancy firm to get things up and running: filing the documents required for legal set-up, keeping a basic set of accounts for the new office, providing some…
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St. HOPE Builds Foundation for Success for Thousands of Students in Sacramento
Posted by Morgan Carey, Nonprofit Industry Marketing Lead After several years spent working in the private sector in New York City, Julian Love felt a desire to give back to his hometown of Sacramento, Calif., hoping to use his finance and accounting background for a public organization rich with purpose. He found it with…
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How to Take the Pain Out of Auditing in Fast-Growing Businesses
Posted by Thomas Sutter, Financial Centre of Excellence An audit feels like the acid test for a business’ finance function – if you pardon the accounting pun. For a growing business, one that is changing rapidly and where the finance team is working hard to manage cash, the audit often feels painful. Nascent, or evolving,…