Contact:
Mei Li
Senior VP, Corporate Communications
NetSuite, Inc.
Phone: 650.627.1063
E-mail: meili@netsuite.com
NETSUITE ANNOUNCES NETSUITE 9.5
UK EDITION
Advanced ERP, CRM and Ecommerce
Functionality Furthers NetSuite's Lead in On-Demand
Business Management Applications for SMEs
LONDON, 29 APRIL 2004 – NetSuite, Inc., makers
of Oracle® Small Business Suite today announced
the release of NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition, adding new functionality
across all components of NetSuite including ERP, CRM,
Ecommerce and Real-Time Dashboards. NetSuite 9.5 UK
Edition marks a major step forward in NetSuite's lead
in on-demand integrated business management for UK small
and midsized enterprises (SMEs). Continuing the commitment
to customer satisfaction, NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition also
includes the fulfillment of over 250 enhancements specifically
requested by customers. The company's products include
NetSuite, NetCRM, NetERP and Oracle Small Business Suite.
To find more information about NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition,
please go to www.netsuite.com/ukadvancedcrm. The Oracle
Small Business Suite name is used under license from
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL).
With thousands of customers globally in the US, Europe,
Africa and Asia, NetSuite is the leading provider of
integrated online business application software for
small and mid-sized businesses. NetSuite, Inc. was founded
in 1998 by Oracle CEO and chairman Larry Ellison and
his leading technology guru and current NetSuite CTO
Evan Goldberg to bring the power of integrated application
suites and low-cost utility computing to SMEs. The company's
UK office is located in the Oracle campus in Reading,
Berkshire (www.netsuite.com/uk).
NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition adds deep and rich functionality
to every aspect of the product, including many features
that are unique to the UK market. Significantly, with
this release, product-based businesses such as wholesalers
and distributors are able to take advantage of new advanced
inventory management capabilities such as quantity-based
pricing, multiple units of measure, serialised inventory
and a host of other new features allowing them to take
full advantage of the application's seamless order management
and fulfillment capabilities for the first time. Additionally,
NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition also adds powerful dashboard
features including more than 20 key performance indicators
(KPIs)—pre-configured, best practices metrics
that instantly provide detailed views on the status
of every aspect of a business.
NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition delivers many "first and only
features" not offered by any other ASP in the UK. These
first and only features focus on 5 areas: Real-Time
Dashboards, ERP, CRM, Ecommerce and Customisation.
The highlights include:
Real-Time Dashboard Features:
- More than 20 new key performance indicators (KPIs),
including comparatives, provide business analysis
at a click of the mouse
- Report snapshots highlight trends—weekly,
monthly, quarterly—as well as top 5, 10, 15
performers
- Patent-pending eXtreme List Editing turns the Dashboard
into a workspace and brings Windows-like ease-of-use
to a Web application
ERP Features:
- Multi-location Inventory allows businesses operating
in more than one location to track stock levels and
associated purchase and sales transactions within
a single NetSuite instance
- Businesses that build, buy, sell or service products
using serial numbers can now manage them with the
new Serialised Inventory capabilities
- For companies that offer volume-based discounts,
NetSuite allows central management of Quantity-Based
Pricing on items and automatic calculation of the
appropriate price on sales orders according to the
quantity being sold, in tandem with multi-currency
handling
- With Multiple Units of Measure capabilities, businesses
can track separate units for purchase, stock levels
and sales transaction and have NetSuite perform the
appropriate calculations to ensure stock levels and
pricing on purchase and sales transactions are correctly
recorded
- Matrix Item capabilities allow businesses to stock
and sell their products in, for example, various color,
size, and style combinations without the headache
and clutter of managing line items to represent each
valid combination in their product catalogue
CRM Features:
- Automatic Term-Based Billing tied to quotes, invoices
and commissions saves a normally labor-intensive process
for companies offering service contract terms or recurring
subscriptions
- Customer information is of no use unless it can
be searched, analyzed and used to drive business decisions
and revenue-generating activities. NetSuite 9.5 includes
several powerful customer mining and segmentation
tools:
- Advanced Expression Builder allows for creating
complex criteria using search expressions of And,
Or, and Not across any combination of fields
- Target Group Creation Tools enable users to mine
customer purchase, case, opportunity and transaction
histories to create target groups, which can then
be used to run up-sell and cross-sell campaigns
- Analytics via Search provides an easy-to-use interface
for quick, on-the-fly analysis of customer profiles,
purchase histories and service logs using Saved
Searches
- Patent-pending, No Click E-mail Integration automatically
captures e-mail replies, thereby eliminating the tedious
process of manually moving e-mails from the e-mail
system to the CRM system. This e-mail capture works
with popular e-mail systems such as Microsoft Outlook,
Lotus Notes, Yahoo! Mail and America Online
Ecommerce Features:
- Integration with UPS ensures that shipping rates
are accurately calculated, tracking numbers are automatically
generated, addresses are validated and shipping labels
are printed—all from within NetSuite
- NetSuite 9.5 can generate a dynamic Database-Driven
Website automatically, hosting Web pages and drawing
on inventory data, pricing data and other information
held in the application
NetSuite Customisation Technology:
Shatters the myths about the customisation of on-demand
products and solves a major problem of traditional application
software by seamlessly carrying forward any customisations
on upgrade.
- Custom Records allow extension of the database structure
of NetSuite, allowing businesses to support complex
data relationships unique to their model and processes
- Custom Code allows businesses to programmatically
tailor business rules using industry standard JavaScript®
rather than a constraining proprietary tool set, a
restriction often found in traditional software products
- Account Cloning allows solution providers to create
vertical market templates that can then be cloned
into live customer accounts, providing a NetSuite
industry solution replicable to many customers within
the targeted industry
"NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition delivers enhanced capabilities
across all areas of the application, including ERP,
CRM and ecommerce functionality making it suitable
for an increasing number of SMEs in the UK," said Craig
Sullivan, director of product management at NetSuite,
Inc. "Instead of stand-alone software packages, SMEs
can look to NetSuite to provide an easy-to-implement,
flexible solution to manage their operations from lead,
to sale, to cash, to support and even to ecommerce
without upfront heavy IT costs."
Pricing and Availability
NetSuite 9.5 UK Edition is available now and there is
no extra fee associated with the new release for current
subscribers.
For more information about NetSuite please visit our
Web site at www.netsuite.com.
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