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NETSUITE ANNOUNCES NETSUITE FOR MEDIA/PUBLISHING COMPANIES, DELIVERED VIA SUITEBUNDLER New Vertical Solution Helps Address Media/Publishing Industry-Specific Needs SAN MATEO, Calif., October 24, 2007 — 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 NetSuite for Media/Publishing, a new vertical solution delivered via SuiteBundler. (Please see accompanying press release "New SuiteBundler From NetSuite Makes 'The Service as Software' Revolution A Reality.") Designed to target media/publishing companies of all sizes, NetSuite for Media/Publishing provides publishers, advertisers, magazines, e-zines and other media outlets with a solution to address their specific vertical processes and needs. This solution addresses the following needs that are key to their business success — better management of the advertisement buying and renewal process; simplification of advertisement order management; improvement of campaign ID management; and access to better business intelligence. For more information about NetSuite for Media/Publishing, please visit www.netsuite.com/media-publishing. "SuiteBundler is the new technology that has made verticalization a reality in the SaaS application world," said Mini Peiris, Vice President of Product Management at NetSuite. "Tailored solutions can now be deployed easily in large scale distribution for any industry. Working with our customers, we have incorporated all the key elements of media/publishing processes into NetSuite for Media/Publishing. With SuiteBundles created to target each business requirement required to run a successful media/publishing company, at the click of a button, customers get a comprehensive solution tailored for their industry." SuiteBundler Powers NetSuite for Media / Publishing
The first group of customers using NetSuite for Media/Publishing includes: Torstar Digital (www.torstardigital.com), is Torstar Corporation's digital division. Torstar Corporation is a broadly based media company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TS.B). Its businesses include the Star Media Group led by the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper, and digital properties including thestar.com, toronto.com, LiveDeal.ca, Workopolis and Olive Canada Network; Metroland Media Group, publishers of community and daily newspapers in Ontario; and Harlequin Enterprises, a leading global publisher of women's fiction. "NetSuite gives us a single, unified environment so everyone involved in touching the customer has the same view — and for us, that's a very big advantage," said Jeff Sherman, VP of Finance and Operations, Torstar Digital. "Having a system that can grow with us is essential. Adding new businesses and models with NetSuite is simple." Curbed Media (www.curbed.com) is a New York-based network of blogs providing neighborhood news in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. "As a startup, we wanted something that could scale and be a building block for all our business systems of the future, and NetSuite will provide us that," said Kyle Crafton, Publisher and General Manager of Curbed.com. "Also, it's great that NetSuite can be customized to deal with issues specific to our industry, such as online advertising inventory." About NetSuite NOTE: NetSuite, the NetSuite logo, SuiteFlex, and SuiteBundler are registered service-marks or trademarks of NetSuite, Inc.
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