Learn what industry analysts say about NetSuite products by reading one of these business guides.

How to Optimize NetSuite Dashboards and KPIs

A well-designed dashboard and relevant KPIs can keep you up to date on the business and on task. NetSuite dashboards boost productivity by displaying actionable insights in the form of KPIs, reminders, tasks and visual report snapshots in a single place. Download this ebook to pick up tips on how to optimize your dashboards and KPIs.

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7 Steps CFOs Can Take for Efficient Growth

The grow-at-all-costs mindset of the boom times is long gone. Now CFOs face a new edict: grow efficiently.

While finance heads are still keeping a close eye on cash flow, more are getting the greenlight from CEOs and boards to pursue the right growth opportunities.

Time is money! So download the guide now to discover:

  • 7 steps you can take now to help drive revenue AND growth
  • 10 metrics to measure for peak efficiency
  • Plus so much more!

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Smart Growth: How Your Business Can Benefit From NetSuite and AI

The suite’s unified data view plus the power of AI generate insightful — and profit-driving — recommendations.

As a unified suite of solutions, NetSuite stores, secures, and structures your business’s data. When AI technologies are used with this data, it finds new ways to simplify tasks and empower better decision-making. Businesses that have data spread across many silos will need to first gather, organize, and transform that data before AI can make use of it.

Download the guide now to understand the approach to how AI technologies are applied in NetSuite and learn about some of the embedded AI enabled capabilities available in NetSuite today.

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CFO of Tomorrow: Your AI Guide

Invest an Hour in Learning Today: Gain the AI Knowledge to Lead with Confidence Tomorrow 

The world of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) may seem daunting now, but we’re here to help. You don't need to become a tech guru overnight. But in order to position yourself as the CFO of tomorrow, you need to understand AI’s potential, harness its power, and strategize how to fit it into your financial strategies today.

Glen Hopper (AI finance expert) breaks down the roadmap in his best-selling book: Deep Finance. Hurry- download it here (for free!) and learn how to:

  • Demystify AI & ML: Grasp the basics, see the impact.
  • Harness AI’s potential: Integrate AI for optimal financial strategy.
  • Lead, not follow: Stay ahead in a rapidly evolving financial world.

Now is the time to transform into the AI-savvy CFO your organization needs. With AI finance expert Glenn Hopper as your guide, you’ll learn everything you need to confidently lead your company into a new era of growth. 

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How 5 Businesses Tap Into Diverse Data Sources for More Accurate Forecasts and Smoother Operations

It’s time to use all of your business data for better decision-making. And we’ve got the secret to simplifying data management, gaining immediate insights, and driving operational efficiency. Download this guide to learn how five businesses transformed their back-end operations with the right business intelligence solution—and how you can, too. Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock valuable insights right in front of you!

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5 Fresh Metrics Every CFO Should Be Measuring

Ready to reveal fresh, powerful metrics to help you keep a pulse on people and profits?

Download this brand-new guide from rockstar CEO and Founder of Fresh FP&A, Chris Ortega. Now is the time to unlock 5 fresh metrics every CFO should be measuring.

Designed exclusively for CFOs, it’s PACKED with actionable insights, including:

- Formulas showing how to calculate each of the five metrics

- Use cases for measuring financial and non-financial metrics

- Ways that these five metrics allow your role as CFO to evolve

About the author: Chris Ortega is the CEO of Fresh FP&A, which provides Fractional CFO and Advisory Services for businesses, is passionate about helping CFOs transform and scale their finance organization.

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Why Four Top Companies Made the Switch to NetSuite

Learn why four NetSuite customers — Issuer Direct, Finalsite, Crumbl Cookies, and R&R Textile Mills — replaced Intacct or decided NetSuite was a better fit for their business. We take a look at common pain points they encountered with Intacct, like a lack of financial automation, struggling to comply with ASC 606, limited scalability, issues managing multiple subsidiaries, and few integrations which led them to make the jump to NetSuite.

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Protect Your Business From Financial Statement Fraud in 7 Easy Steps

Don’t let the potential of financial statement fraud jeopardize your business — or even your leadership’s personal lives. Implement these safeguards today, and you’ll have tighter control over your financial records.

Get this concise, expert guide for 7 actions you can take RIGHT NOW to defend your business against financial statement fraud. Plus, learn to spot potential warning signs.

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Boost Cash Flow With Better Inventory Management

The cash conversion cycle: it’s the one metric that reveals your operational efficiency. As executives turn up the pressure to maximize profitability, your cash conversion cycle (CCC) can reveal where your organization has room for improvement.

So how can you generate a faster return on your inventory investments? This new guide will help you:

  • Benchmark your CCC and see how you stack up
  • Uncover five strategies to shorten this cycle
  • Understand how the right inventory system fuels success

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The Ultimate Guide to Scenario Planning

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation, the saying goes. For businesses, the cornerstone of preparedness is scenario planning.

Scenario plans let you respond quickly and proactively when business conditions change. These documents define trigger points and list steps you’ll take to manage new challenges. Download your copy of this business guide and learn:

  • The 7 building blocks of a scenario plan
  • 5 best practices — and 5 pitfalls to avoid
  • The 4 main types of scenario plans
  • And more!

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NetSuite Shortcuts That Will Save You Time

We are all looking for ways to be more productive, even with the use of NetSuite. These simple NetSuite shortcuts will help users be more efficient and productive in their daily use of NetSuite. Download this ebook to discover some top NetSuite shortcuts, including utilizing keyboard commands, narrowing down global search results, and accessing favorites and recent records.

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How to Build NetSuite Reports

Master the fundamentals of using standard reports, customizing reports, and building new reports in NetSuite to get exactly the data you need to empower your business. Download this ebook to pick up a few tips on NetSuite reporting, including utilizing report filters and export features, building custom reports and formulas, and selecting data and metrics for custom reports.

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The CFO’s Daily Checklist

Get your daily checklist to become a more savvy, strategic CFO — even if you’re short on time.

We asked top CFOs for the tasks they complete every day to become more strategic, ultra-efficient, and valuable to the rest of the company. Download our guide to learn:

  • 5 email newsletters you should be skimming
  • 3 strategies for offering your analysis to other teams
  • 2 easy ways to win favor with your board
  • And more!

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Making Metrics Matter

We’ve all heard the truism that “what gets measured gets managed.” With data more accessible and easier to track than ever, you have the opportunity to both measure and actively manage all aspects of the business.

So why are leaders still lamenting a lack of data insights?

Address that by democratizing data and metrics, including using an objectives and key results — OKR — framework.

In this guide, we:

  • Reveal 5 strategies for successful OKR goal setting
  • Explain the difference between a KPI and an OKR
  • Free your company from relying on intuition for setting goals and measuring success.

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The CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning

We asked ChatGPT, “Can you tell me 5 things to watch out for when accounting for intercompany transactions?” and followed up with “What steps should I take to ensure my company is ASC 842 compliant?”

Its answers are instructive for companies considering adopting AI and machine learning techs — and for those that are not.

Download our guide to see what the future holds for these advanced technologies and finance pros.

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5 Insights for CFOs Seeking the CEO Seat

“Rather than sit in the proverbial ‘ivory tower of finance,’ the most highly sought-after CFOs are forward thinking, partner cross-functionally, and possess a broad base of business knowledge.”

Sound like you? Then you’re exactly the kind of CFO boards want to fill CEO slots, says Kirby Perkins, a managing director of Crist Kolder Associates with years of experience in C-level searches.

What else do Perkins and other experts say is key to getting hired? In this guide, we round up insights that can benefit CFOs looking to advance their careers.

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6 Leadership Traits of Strategic CFOs

The traits that make for a strategic finance leader are different from those even a few years ago — and CFOs who stay on the cutting edge know and embrace that reality.

As CFOLC founder Jack McCullough puts it, “CFOs used to record history. Now they make history.”

Find out how top CFOs are helping shape strategy.

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Discover the Easiest Way to Automate Your Expense Management

Tired of wasting time manually entering employee expenses from spreadsheets or paper receipts? Maybe receipts are often lost — or maybe it’s simply impossible to forecast your employee expenses accurately.

There IS a better way.

Grab our free, fast guide now to uncover:

  • Key advantages of automated expense management
  • Essential features to look for in expense management software
  • Simple steps to start overhauling the process at your business

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NetSuite Keeps the Wheels Turning in Transportation and Logistics

Transportation and logistics companies are tasked with getting products from origin to destination, keeping the “wheels turning” in the supply chain process. With NetSuite as the foundation, Myers-Holum helps growing transportation and logistics companies effectively manage their increasingly complex global operations, save money, and make better decisions.

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Gamed: Why targets and incentives fail and how to fix them

There are plenty of ways well-intentioned goals can go sideways: Activity as a proxy for results. Operational impracticality. Lack of real-world testing.

OKRs and SMART goals help by getting everyone pulling together.

Now, KPIs expert Bernie Smith has designed the Results-Orientated KPI Effective Target Design System — ROKET-DS. When used with your OKR or SMART goals, it can supercharge your business.

Download this report and learn how to take your KPIs to the next level.

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11 Metrics to Strengthen Your Supply Chain

The pandemic made it painfully clear just how fragile supply chains are, and many businesses paid the price. Luckily, we mapped out how you can prevent this from happening again.

In this short guide, you’ll discover how to:

  • Optimize each step in the supply chain
  • Calculate and assess 11 critical supply chain metrics
  • Select software to give you a competitive advantage

Download this step-by-step guide to start building a more resilient, profitable supply chain today!

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The Ultimate Sales KPI Checklist

Are you tracking the right KPIs to boost sales, optimize profit, and beat your competition?

Download this quick, expert guide for 10 KPIs that every sales team should track.

Plus, you’ll get tips on sales dashboards and other ways to automate sales KPI tracking without breaking your budget.

Get the checklist now!

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Accelerate Your Cash Flow With Accounts Payable KPIs

It's essential to keep cash flowing. One of the smartest ways to do so is by tracking accounts payable KPIs.

Refine your process — and watch your cash flow accelerate — with our quick, expert guide.

You’ll learn valuable tips, including how to:

  • Benchmark your AP performance with the right KPIs
  • Simplify your AP process and supercharge cash flow
  • Automate KPI tracking with cost-effective technology

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5 NetSuite Financial Modules That Make Your Business More Efficient

As a NetSuite user, you have automated processes and harnessed powerful reporting tools. But the “get more efficient” challenge keeps growing for finance teams and executives.

The good news: Your NetSuite data holds untapped opportunities to save time and money and deliver rich business insights.

From precise tracking of fixed assets to more automated billing and subsidiary management, download the ebook and learn five NetSuite efficiency levers to pull today.

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Growing Your Bottom Line With AR Dashboards

Managing your accounts receivable is straightforward and efficient — if you’re using the right tools.

Download this expert guide now and see just how fast you can go, while boosting accuracy, with AR dashboards.

Plus, get answers to questions like:

  • How do AR dashboards lift cash flow and keep forecasts on track?
  • What are the 9 AR KPIs I should track now?
  • What do I need to create dashboards that grow my bottom line?

Speed up and simplify your accounts receivable today.

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17 Growth Levers CFOs Can Pull Now

In tough times, finance tends to have a common gut reaction: Cut deep and cut soon. But overcorrecting can hobble growth for years to come.

Ask: When the economy comes back, what’s the first thing our customers will need?

Start there to make a tailored plan. Here are 17 growth-oriented moves for CFOs to consider as they chart a path to a more prosperous future.

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Calculate the ROI of Analytics and Reporting Tools

You know that you need to make decisions rooted in data, but you’re still trying to answer this question: Are your basic reporting tools good enough, or is it time for an upgrade?

Calculate the ROI of a top-notch analytics solution for your business with this quick guide. We’ve made it easy and simple to:

  • Discover where an analytics and reporting tool will drive the biggest returns
  • Uncover tips on maximizing your ROI
  • Get a breakdown of potential costs and savings

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The Controller’s Guide to AP Automation

Controllers, now you have the power to unlock bottom-line impacts for your business. By introducing AP automation, you can directly increase speed, accuracy, and profitability.

Download the guide now to discover how, step-by-step.

You’ll learn:

  • 7 benefits your team will see with AP automation
  • 3 practical steps to set goals for an automation project
  • 7 must-have technology features to give you tighter control of payables

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Gearing Up for Growth? CFO, CIO Alignment Drives Success

Collaboration delivers benefits for customers, employees, and the business.

A big reason CFOs are getting more involved in technology selection: They realize that not all IT investments are delivering a competitive advantage. Good money after bad is no way to succeed.

We'll explain how CFOs and CIOs can partner to move the organization forward.

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Discover How ERP Outperforms Accounting Software

Discover the differences in price, scalability, and functionality between ERP and accounting software — all in bite-sized form! We did all the work for you in this quick comparison guide.

Start your time- and money-saving journey by exploring the pros and cons of ERP vs. accounting software. Then, you can make the best choice for your business.

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Your Quick Guide to AP Dashboards

AP dashboards are powerful tools that provide real-time insights into your vendor relationships, cash flow, and payment trends.

Whether you’re new to AP dashboards or looking to optimize your existing dashboard, this quick guide has everything you need — plus, it’s free!

Find out how to:

  • Recognize when you need AP dashboards
  • Quickly identify which KPIs to track
  • Strategically choose the right technology to help

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9 Ways to Improve Your Business With Cloud Accounting

Now is the time to leverage the power of the cloud. Cloud accounting software lets you move swiftly and reduces the hassle and expense of managing a system yourself—creating a competitive advantage.

Discover how your company can benefit from the power of best-in-class, cloud-based accounting software with this quick, expert guide.

You’ll unlock:

  • The top advantages of a cloud system
  • Inside tips to determine if cloud accounting is right for you
  • Key system features that ensure rapid ROI

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The Art of Finding Your Perfect Accounting Software

Download this expert guide to walk through the process of choosing an accounting software that’s perfect for you.

You’ll also learn how to:

  • Prioritize key features in your search
  • Estimate the cost of your solution
  • And more!

Download this free quick-start guide on choosing the right accounting software for your business now.

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15 Make or Break Metrics

As an executive or departmental leader, are you tracking the right metrics for your company? Do you have the right tools to quickly and painlessly find real-time numbers?

Download our guide with 15 make or break metrics now to find out exactly what tools you need to boost sales, profitability, and efficiency. Plus, we’ll share 6 bonus benchmarks tailored specifically to businesses selling products and services.

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Guide to Getting Control of Your Cash Flow

You know that maintaining a strong cash position keeps your business healthy and on track to meet goals. But it’s much easier said than done.

Learn how deploying these smart cash flow management techniques can equip your business for whatever comes next. In this FREE guide, you’ll uncover how to:

  • Track the metrics that reveal your true cash position
  • Build more accurate cash flow forecasts faster
  • Apply specific strategies to optimize your cash flow

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Ready to Save? Automate Your Accounts Payable Today

If you feel stuck in the time-consuming AP process, then it’s time to get UNSTUCK. Take control, and rethink your approach to accounts payable from the ground up.

In this short guide, you’ll learn how automation can take care of your AP bottlenecks. You’ll also:

  • Preview specific results your business could realize with AP automation
  • Get more insight into how AP automation works
  • Uncover 5 must-have features to fully automate your processes

Capitalize on the benefits of AP automation so you can watch costs decrease and cash flow increase.

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Simplify Your Entire Accounts Payable Process

Does your AP team process invoices one by one? There’s a smarter way to manage your accounts payable.

Download this quick-start guide to learn:

  • 7 benefits of automating AP.
  • Which tasks to automate for the biggest time- and cost-savings.
  • Practical tips for taking advantage of more technology in AP.

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7 Secrets of Recession-Wise CFOs

How Top Finance Leaders Engineer Resilience Into Their Operations

Will there or won’t there be one? Our crystal ball is broken, but we do know that smart CFOs are making moves like baking customer and supplier health into cash flow calculations, developing tiered forecasts with corresponding cuts, and rejiggering their metrics mixes.

Preparing properly makes a world of difference. In this business guide, you get a working plan to make your business resilient and ready for whatever comes next.

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Save Time and Cut Costs With the Right Inventory Management System

If you’re like many business leaders, you’re walking an inventory tightrope. You’re trying to keep enough stock on hand to fill orders – but not SO much that you tie up more cash than necessary.

The good news? You can simplify and save with the right inventory management system.

In this three-page guide, you’ll learn:

  • 3 types of features to look for in inventory management software
  • 5 considerations to keep in mind when evaluating solutions
  • 6 capabilities that make an integrated system like NetSuite ERP the best option

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The CFO’s Quick Guide to Choosing the Right ERP

Accounting automation and reporting dashboards are game-changers – If you find the right ERP system. In this free guide, we’re detailing everything we’ve learned about how CFOs can choose the best ERP system, including:

  • 8 signs your finance team needs ERP
  • Key features to look for in your future ERP
  • Must-ask questions when evaluating vendors

Download this guide now and turn the next 5 minutes into an investment in your company’s success.

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The Controller’s Roadmap to Choosing the Right ERP

Accounting automation and reporting dashboards can save you time, eliminate bottlenecks, and more – If you find the right ERP system. We’re detailing everything we’ve learned about how controllers can help their teams do just that.

In this free guide, you’ll learn:

  • Unmistakable signs your team needs ERP
  • Top capabilities to look for in your future system
  • Must-ask questions when evaluating ERP vendors

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CFO’s Guide to Better, Faster Accounting and Decision-Making

Continuous accounting makes closing the books a source of insights — not frustration

Dread end of month? Our continuous close strategy delivers better results, happier employees and fresh financial insights on demand.

Download your guide to learn:

  • How ASC 606 and IFRS 15 provide a five-step framework for rev rec decisions.
  • Why it’s crucial to automate repetitive tasks like creating journal entries and managing amortization and depreciation.
  • Ways continuous accounting enables CFOs to redirect energy to what really matters to the business.

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Overcome Inventory Management Challenges With NetSuite

Better inventory management starts by addressing the basics. No matter how large your business or how fast it’s growing, if you’re still using spreadsheets or — worse yet — paper to track inventory, you’re going to get left behind.

What’s the solution? Solve the challenges you’re facing now with head-on, proven methods. Download this expert guide TODAY to learn how you can:

  • Create demand forecasts with ease
  • Phase out manual processes that are holding you back
  • Implement NetSuite Inventory Management to make better decisions, faster

What are you waiting for? Download the quick guide now to stay competitive, differentiate, and whip your inventory management process into shape.

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10 Ways to Optimize Your Inventory Now

Let’s face it: Your retail business can’t afford to miss out on sales because of stockouts. And it certainly can’t waste cash storing excess stock.

If you’re ready to stop wasting time and money, then simplify your inventory management practices with this free guide. Hurry and discover the formulas behind a powerful retail strategy, including how to:

  • Maximize profit by intelligently predicting demand and ordering accordingly
  • Stock exactly what customers want to buy after analyzing inventory performance
  • Automate replenishment, cycle counts, and more

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Cash Flow Analysis Cheat Sheet

Would you be able to predict a cash flow shortage before it’s too late?

The answer is no if you’re focused on finalizing the backward-looking cash flow statement and rarely find time for the kind of strategic analysis that prevents a cash crunch before it happens. The fix? Automation that can always show you the latest numbers and leaves more time for analysis.

Download this quick-start guide to get:

  • A cash flow analysis model you can apply at your business.
  • 4 metrics that measure your company’s financial stability.
  • Tips on what to do when trends signal cash flow problems.

Start analyzing cash flow and safeguard your business’s financial health no matter what comes next.

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5 Steps to Improving Efficiency in Finance and Accounting

Finance leaders are under pressure to accomplish more without adding headcount. To avoid burnout among an already overworked staff, they must find ways to operate more efficiently. As a NetSuite user, you understand the benefits of automating routine accounting tasks. But if important financial processes are still being managed outside of NetSuite, you’re missing an opportunity. Find out how much more productive your team could be by using NetSuite to take on additional processes like depreciation, revenue recognition, and more.

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The Growing Cost of QuickBooks

With a low price point and standard functionality, QuickBooks works best for businesses that are just starting out. But needs quickly extend beyond basic accounting, and leaders who use QuickBooks grasp for missing information. Your business doesn’t need to settle for accounting software that limits growth and adds stress and frustration. Cloud ERP — a single system with integrated modules for all your business functions — will reinstate your ability to scale.

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5 Financial Management Secrets CFOs Need to Know

These shrewd finance leaders have been around the block — and we’re not afraid to ask them for tips

CFOs who are seen as leaders beyond finance have one thing in common: They have plenty of numbers-backed insights, and they’re not shy about sharing them.

Author Jack McCullough: Why CFOs may need to be the ‘ethics police.’

CFO Drew Cook: You have to ‘know what you know.’

And it doesn’t stop there. Download our business guide to discover five financial management secrets to put into practice now.

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The CFO’s Guide to AR/AP Automation

You just approved funding to help a business unit work smarter? Great!

But you’re putting off finance automation — again? It's time to rethink that.

CFOs in the habit of approving new tech for every department but finance need to shake loose the money for AR/AP automation. It’s the No. 1 path to cutting costs, improving customer relationships, reducing overhead, supercharging your team, and minimizing errors.

In this guide, we’ll explain the benefits of AR/AP automation and what to look for in a solution.

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Factoring Businesses Scale Up With Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning

Over the next eight years, the US factoring market is expected to post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.1%. By combining NetSuite’s leading cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with Bryant Park’s capabilities designed for their industry, factoring companies can more effectively manage their transaction loads, grow, and take on new business.

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10 CRM Features That Drive ROI

Can your company justify investing in a fully featured CRM? Is it time to replace that outdated application you've used for 15 years? Get the answers you’ve been looking for by crunching the numbers on ROI.

This short guide explains how a CRM drives value for your business. It shows what the three-year return on this software could look like for your organization and metrics you should track to measure the impact.

Get your copy of this free resource to learn how CRM can help you increase revenue and delight customers.

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Benefits of Inventory Management

Let’s be honest: Your business, like most others, has room for improvement in inventory management. And if you start using more best practices, it’ll be a game-changer.

In this resource, you’ll learn how to:

  • Make a real impact by improving your inventory management processes
  • Realize these gains with the help of an inventory management system
  • Look for the right features in a new system

Get your copy today and start uncovering hidden cash by managing inventory smarter.

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Unlocking High ROI From Accounting Software

With so many options for accounting software, how do you compare them to ensure you pick the “right” one?

Follow the numbers.

This guide covers how to calculate the ROI of accounting software. Use it to get an accurate snapshot of just how much value your business could see with better accounting technology.

Download the guide, and you’ll also unlock access to our free ROI calculator.

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How to Take Your Family Business to the Next Level

When times are tough, family-owned firms have an edge. A strong, independent CFO magnifies that advantage.

To supercharge growth at your family business, consider working with an independent CFO. If you’re like most family firms, then hiring someone who’s a cultural fit is at least as important as education or industry experience.

It’s a simple way to take your family business to the next level.

This expert guide is packed with tips including:

  • 5 ways to drive success with outside finance pros
  • How to develop a winning hiring strategy
  • 4 creative compensation plans to give your offer an edge
  • How to make sure a new hire shares your values

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The Finance Team’s Role In Improving Inventory Management

Plus: 5 ways to increase cash flow

Every CFO is looking for creative ways to grow their bottom line right now. Better inventory management could be the key to greater profitability — and finance leaders cannot leave this responsibility strictly to supply chain leaders.

Get this guide for a roadmap to five strategies that will immediately boost inventory efficiency, including:

  • Evaluating your product catalog based on profitability to guide resource allocation.
  • What data to consider to better predict demand for specific products.
  • Always fulfilling from the most cost-effective inventory location.
  • KPIs that help you prove positive momentum in each area.

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21 Inventory Management KPIs to Track

Does your business need an inventory management refresh?

Your inventory is one of your biggest expenses, so you watch it closely. You’re constantly trying to strike a balance: You need enough on hand to avoid stockouts, but not so much that you tie up more cash than necessary.

Inside this cheat sheet, discover how to:

  • Evaluate your inventory planning, then improve it, with automation
  • Choose the right KPIs to reduce excess inventory and minimize costs
  • Fine-tune your inventory management with a better system

Download this free resource now and start making inventory work for your bottom line.

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ERP Requirements Checklist

Save time choosing your ERP system — and avoid the costly mistake of choosing the wrong system — using this quick and easy checklist.

This guide features expert tips on how to:

  • Ask vendors the right questions so you make the best decision for your business
  • Figure out which ERP modules you need
  • Build a process for researching and vetting ERP systems

Download the guide now and get a head start on choosing your ERP system.

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Unifying Financial and Operational Systems for the Fitness Industry

Managing fitness center memberships and activities requires careful orchestration and a robust technology platform that can manage new member onboarding, recurring membership payments, physical inventory management and other day-to-day operational tasks. This business guide explores the top challenges that today’s fitness and health clubs are facing and shows how NetSuite and the NetSuite MBO Connector Mindbody Connector ease the pain of daily sync ups between a company’s financial system of record and operational execution systems.

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Complete Guide to Cloud ERP Implementation

Want to nail your ERP implementation?

Even with the right vendor and system, a successful ERP implementation requires careful planning, execution, and continued adjustments.

Download this guide for the secrets to a smooth implementation, including:

  • What to focus on at each stage of the process, from initial planning to go-live
  • Who you need to recruit for your ERP implementation team
  • How to set reasonable budget expectations from the start

Plus…you’ll get real customer stories with takeaways you can apply to your own project.

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CFO's Ultimate KPI Checklist

Ready to finally harness KPIs to drive the right behavior for your business?

This practical step-by-step ebook is jam-packed with guides to give you the one thing CFOs need heading into 2023: Consistently excellent performance.

Download the ebook today to unlock:

  • Customizable templates, checklists, spreadsheets, sample SLAs, and much more.
  • Process maps showing the production flow for each measure or KPI.
  • User guides with the tools and practical advice teams need to succeed.
  • Ways to make your data work for you.

About the author: Bernie Smith coaches businesses to develop meaningful KPIs and present their management information in the clearest possible way. Smith has worked with major organizations including UBS, Tesco Bank, and RSA, and many others.

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Technology Takes the Complexity Out of Construction Project Management

Getting any construction project over the finish line requires a lot of coordination and collaboration. ProScope for NetSuite helps construction firms across all sectors improve operational visibility and manage their projects in a more profitable and predictable manner.

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How to Become a Rockstar CFO

Top ways to raise your profile from author Jack McCullough and personal branding experts

You already know your strengths as a CFO. Now it’s time to communicate your unique value proposition, spread your insights, support your team, and help your peers.

Becoming a “rockstar CFO” could earn you a major payoff. A top branding specialist says clients pay $240 hourly to consult with an expert.

Download this business guide to reveal:

  • 1 golden rule for developing your own rockstar CFO brand
  • 3 keys to a compelling CFO personal statement
  • 10 steps to becoming an industry thought leader

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Property Management Companies Harness the Power of Cloud ERP

Commercial and residential property management firms waste time, money, and resources when they rely on a blend of disjointed applications. Combining NetSuite with Folio3's Property Management Solution helps growing property management firms maximize their rental portfolios, eliminate manual work, save money, and grow their businesses.

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ERP Helps Growing Biotechnology Companies Manage Complex Business Models

As biotech companies progress from novel ideas to commercialization, they need unified ERP platforms supported by implementation partners that truly understand their operations, challenges, and objectives. For any biotech that’s moving out of the startup phase and working toward clinical trials, regulatory approval, an IPO, or another major event, the combination of the NetSuite platform with Connor Group’s extensive accounting and automation experience in the biotech industry will help pave the path.

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What CEOs Want in a CFO

We talked to a dozen chief executives about what makes a top finance partner. The good news: These traits are also CFO career-building powerhouses

Want to really wow a CEO? Bring them insights into today’s funding landscape, an ability to tell the company’s story in numbers, and a snug cultural fit. From there, you can:

  • Replace short-term thinking with a set of strategic KPIs.
  • Vet technology spending proposals to maximize your IT investment.
  • Help generate intel on your competitors and market trends.

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Your Quickstart Guide to ERP ROI Calculations

You’re vetting ERPs and you need to get the right people on board. Download this guide to calculate the return on investment of ERP for your business. Solid numbers will help you convince stakeholders and select the best system. 

This new guide is packed with tips on how to ace the ERP evaluation and selection process, including:

  • How to choose between cloud-based and on-premises systems.
  • Why a dose of reality is critical when calculating ROI.
  • What to include in your forecast.
  • Tips to factor in both hard and soft ROI. How much are employee morale and customer satisfaction worth?
  • And much, much more.

Download the guide now and unlock examples of a 3-year ROI calculation and 5 tips to increase ERP system ROI.

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Secrets to a Successful CEO/CFO Relationship

Insights from Rockstar CFO’s Jack McCullough

When the CEO and CFO are in tune, both the business and the CFO’s career benefit. But a strong relationship doesn’t begin at the start date. CFOs must set themselves up for success during the hiring process. 

This guide shares on-point advice from Jack McCullough, founder and president of the CFO Leadership Council and author of Secrets of Rockstar CFOs and The Psychopathic CEO: An Executive Survival Guide. 

Download this guide to learn:

  • Ways to capitalize on your first 90 days in the CFO role.
  • How to spot red flags that warn a dream job could turn into a nightmare.
  • Why “transparency” needs to be your watchword for board, employee, and CEO relationship success.

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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises

Learn why Gartner recognized NetSuite as a Visionary in this latest Magic Quadrant report.

Here are just a few benefits your business can experience with NetSuite:

  • Enable strategic decision-making for finance leaders and avoid revenue leakage through real-time financial reports.
  • Integrate seamlessly between financials, CRM, ecommerce, inventory management and more.
  • Incorporate data from acquisitions to easily transition newly acquired brands into your database.
  • Eliminate hours of manual work and free up resources needed to accelerate growth, drive innovation and remain competitive.
  • Boost profitability by managing inventory more efficiently with company-wide inventory visibility.
  • Increase global presence with a broad and expanding ecosystem of partners.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

*GARTNER and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises, Greg Leiter, Dixie John, Robert Anderson, Tim Faith, 26 September 2022.

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Good to Great: CFO’s Guide to Closing the Skills Gap

New data and advice from four top finance chiefs show how leaders can refine their expertise.

Some CFOs are natural number crunchers, always on point with their financials. Others revel in staff development, product brainstorming and liaising with business colleagues. The nitty gritty of month-end closes? Delegate it.

Four CFOs and data from 500 business leaders reveal keys to closing skills gaps that may just be holding you back.

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6 Signs It’s Time for a New Inventory Management System

Basic systems are a sure way to end up with dead stock, higher handling costs, and lower profits

Got expansion plans? Need multi-location tracking? Are cycle counts an ordeal? Then you need a new inventory management strategy. After all, stock is likely your biggest asset. A best-in-class inventory solution is an investment that quickly pays for itself.

This business guide reveals six signs you’ve outgrown your current inventory management system, what to look for in a replacement — and why traceability can be a major differentiator.

PLUS: 5 fantastic ideas to steal from companies that creatively upped their inventory management games.

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6 Signs It’s Time for a New Inventory Management System

Basic systems are a sure way to end up with dead stock, higher handling costs, and lower profits

Got expansion plans? Need multi-location tracking? Are cycle counts an ordeal? Then you need a new inventory management strategy. After all, stock is likely your biggest asset. A best-in-class inventory solution is an investment that quickly pays for itself.

This business guide reveals six signs you’ve outgrown your current inventory management system, what to look for in a replacement — and why traceability can be a major differentiator.

PLUS: 5 fantastic ideas to steal from companies that creatively upped their inventory management games.

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5 Habits of Top CFOs

Take this advice and watch your career take off

The days when the chief financial officer was primarily responsible for internal controls and compliance are long gone. While financial discipline remains critical, today’s CFOs have far more responsibility than their predecessors did, playing key roles in developing strategy, fostering innovation and driving growth.

Read this business guide to learn more about the habits that top CFOs use to meet the high expectations and demands of their ever-expanding role.

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8 Ways CFOs Can Win the Gen Z Talent War

What matters most may not be what you expect, say 5 young finance professionals

Gen Z has grown up quickly, and finance leaders must understand how to hire them. Why should they care? This generation will comprise 30% of the total workforce by 2030, meaning businesses’ ability to attract young finance pros will have a heavy hand in their future success.

This guide lifts the veil on Gen Z and their job expectations, separating their real concerns from misleading labels attached to this much-discussed group. Download this guide for:

  • Insights from several Gen Zers with finance backgrounds into what could convince them to take a job—and stick with a company.
  • Eight actionable steps employers can take to build a workplace that is both appealing and welcoming to recent grads.
  • An understanding of how this generation’s unique skills will benefit more senior colleagues and the business as a whole (and it goes beyond tech-savviness).

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Inventory Management Software Holding Your Business Back? There’s a Better Way

Basic systems are a sure way to end up with dead stock, higher handling costs, and lower profits

Got expansion plans? Need multi-location tracking? Are cycle counts an ordeal? Then you need a new inventory management strategy. After all, stock is likely your biggest asset. A best-in-class inventory solution is an investment that quickly pays for itself.

This business guide reveals six signs you’ve outgrown your current inventory management system, what to look for in a replacement—and why traceability can be a major differentiator.

PLUS: 5 fantastic ideas to steal from companies that creatively upped their inventory management games.

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5 Secrets of Ultra-Efficient CFOs

Heightened efficiency equals job security all around. Here’s why.

The first move in our five-step efficiency-boosting plan: Launch a process review. We lay out an eight-step framework to get your team some fast productivity wins.

From there, you can:

  • Establish a finance team culture that continuously seeks efficiency gains.
  • Evangelize for transparency as a productivity superpower across the organization.
  • Engage technology to further increase efficiency — particularly by offloading morale-sapping repetitive tasks.

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Here’s How ERP Can Help Your Business

Have you ever wondered: What is the business value of ERP?

Download this 13-point checklist to learn why ERP systems are critical for managing thousands of businesses of all sizes and in all industries.

You’ll hear about ERP’s unique features surrounding:

  • Security
  • Cost savings
  • Customer service
  • And much, much more!

As the 20+ year leader in Cloud ERP Systems, NetSuite is built to help you make decisions at record speed. So, whether you’re positioning yourself for an acquisition or looking to cut costs and free up time, this checklist is designed to help you get the most from your accounting software.

Hurry — time is money! Download now.

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The Future of Finance is in the CFO’s Hands

Your new roadmap to 2024

Chief financial officers are no longer the heads-down number crunchers they once were. Today, the role goes way beyond that into strategy and leadership. CFOs are no longer just tallying up finances; they’re calling the shots.

Take a look at the ways CFOs are becoming more strategic, including:

  • Automating revenue forecasting and recognition to free up time for creative brainstorming.
  • Understanding advanced fintechs that let teams work better, faster and more efficiently.
  • Creating a flexible company that is prepared for unrestricted growth and any change that comes its way.

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The Future of Finance is in the CFO’s Hands

Your new roadmap to 2024

Chief financial officers are no longer the heads-down number crunchers they once were. Today, the role goes way beyond that into strategy and leadership. CFOs are no longer just tallying up finances; they’re calling the shots.

Take a look at the ways CFOs are becoming more strategic, including:

  • Automating revenue forecasting and recognition to free up time for creative brainstorming.
  • Understanding advanced fintechs that let teams work better, faster and more efficiently.
  • Creating a flexible company that is prepared for unrestricted growth and any change that comes its way.

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Got Goals? This Metrics Framework Gets You There

Objectives and key results empower companies to succeed

An objectives and key results — OKR — framework breaks high-level company goals into concrete, achievable steps. It empowers employees, managers and teams to keep moving in the right direction and provides tools to define and measure success.

The OKR methodology is popular with startups and tech giants alike. Because it depends on complete and current data, CFOs and finance leaders are ideally suited to drive the effort.

After all, who has better insight into your metrics?

In this guide, we:

  • Reveal the 5 OKR benefits that will sell the CEO.
  • Sketch out a roadmap to move your culture from top-down to employee empowerment.
  • Provide 7 rules for writing highly effective OKRs.

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NetSuite vs. Odoo

A Comprehensive Comparison Guide

Fast-growing businesses confronting this decision may find themselves comparing NetSuite and Odoo. While there is overlapping functionality between these solutions in places, there are some key differences that companies need to consider when evaluating the two products.

This business guide examines some of the crucial differences between the two software platforms that buyers need to consider, extending beyond functionality comparisons to important considerations like customization, development, and implementation.

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4 Skills CFOs Need Now and How to Strengthen Them

Tips to excel at communication, collaboration, data analysis and FP&A

The CFO’s job is no longer just about the numbers; soft skills are more in demand than ever.

In this business guide you’ll find tips from top CFOs who excel at communication, collaboration, data analysis and FP&A, including:

  • The four steps to active listening, an especially powerful tool for leaders.
  • How embedding finance employees in business units can be a win-win.
  • Ways to automate data gathering to inform analysis efforts.
  • Why knowing how to quickly adjust to achieve goals is a huge CFO value-add.

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NetSuite Planning and Budgeting: How to Manage Ad-Hoc Reporting

Download this ebook to learn how NetSuite Planning and Budgeting allows finance teams to generate insights into company performance, create timely, high-quality reports and fully automate your financial processes end-to-end.

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How CFOs Can Reverse Customer Churn

Changing buying habits are eroding customer lifetime value. Here’s how to fix it.

Why is churn up, and how can CFOs combat it? In this business guide, we’ll reveal a data-driven approach to retention using insightful metrics including customer lifetime value, revenue leakage and more. Hint: Invest in what delights your clients.

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Mission Possible: Close Your Books In 5 Days or Less

Dread the month’s end? Our three-stage strategy dispels the gloom

If it takes your team 10 days or more to close the books, you’re not alone. You are, however, falling behind nimbler competitors automating their way to a continuous close that delivers fresh financial insights on demand.

The good news? We have a plan. In this business guide you’ll learn:

  • How to build a close command center.
  • Why standardized workflows are fundamental.
  • Six troubleshooting steps to root out inefficiencies.

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7 Steps to Recession-Proof Your Business

Positioning for upside during a slow down

Will there or won’t there be one? When it comes to a downturn, our crystal ball is broken. But we do know that smart CFOs are hedging via moves like:

  • Baking customer and supplier health into cash flow calculations
  • Developing tiered forecasts with corresponding cuts
  • Tracking the metrics that reflect reality now

In this business guide, you get a working plan to make your business more resilient and ready for whatever comes next.

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Your Next 6 Months as CFO

Using economic uncertainty to your advantage

As a CFO, you know that the fundamentals of running a successful business have changed over the past few years. To start, technology and automation are becoming table stakes.

In this guide, you’ll learn how 500 fellow leaders are navigating this year’s especially choppy waters. Download now, and get tactics to help you conquer your next six months.

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Unlock Inventory and Financial Strategies to Increase Cash Reserves

Working capital in a slowing economy

Leaders are now working to balance new investments with preparations for whatever’s coming down the fiscal pipe. Should you line up financing now? Lease that new asset versus buying? Recalculate profitability metrics? How do inventory optimization strategies change in a slowdown?

In this business guide, top CFOs share tactics to strengthen your business’s financial position.

PLUS: 3 key metrics to keep tabs on working capital and tips to invest your cash reserves.

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The Future of Finance

90% of CFOs will use automation, AI and fintech by 2024

We’ve seen a quantum leap in tech adoption among midmarket businesses. And new tech’s popularity will only accelerate, says our survey of CFOs, their executive peers and company managers.

Read this business guide for a rundown of which technologies your competitors expect to adopt in the next 24 months — plus their spending plans, outlook on their company’s growth prospects, and more.

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Cash Flow Management for Every Part of Your Business

Five problems and five solutions for CFOs now

In business, cash is like oxygen: You don't think about it when you have enough, but when you don’t have the cash to run full speed ahead, nothing matters more than getting that runway. As CFO, you specialize in creating insight into cash flow, so you know exactly how much you have — and need.

Between supply chain disruptions, labor shortages and evolving customer expectations, cash management requires financial discipline and a clear working capital optimization strategy.

Without a formal cash management strategy, and lacking appropriate dashboards and tracked metrics, you may miss opportunities for savings. Or worse, you may get caught short on cash. This guide focuses on critical CFO functions: cash forecasting, strong financial controls and accounts payable management. Refining these functions can boost real-time data visibility — and therefore your business’s bottom-line health in a volatile economy.

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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises

Oracle NetSuite recognized as a Leader

Learn why Gartner named NetSuite a Leader in this new Magic Quadrant report.

Here are just a few benefits your business can experience with NetSuite:

  • Enable strategic decision-making for finance leaders and avoid revenue leakage through real-time financial reports.
  • Modernize operations with a seamless integration between financials, CRM, project management and more.
  • Gain visibility and control to improve realization rates, project profitability, and client satisfaction.
  • Eliminate hours of manual work and free up resources needed to accelerate growth, drive innovation and remain competitive.
  • Maximize resource utilization and enhance visibility to supply and demand, streamlining staffing with the right skills and availability for every project.
  • Increase global presence with a broad and expanding ecosystem of partners.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

*GARTNER and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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Good to Great: CFO’s Guide to Closing the Skills Gap

New data and advice from four top finance chiefs show how leaders can refine their expertise.

Some CFOs are natural number crunchers, always on point with their financials. Others revel in staff development, product brainstorming and liaising with business colleagues. The nitty gritty of month-end closes? Delegate it.

Four CFOs and data from 500 business leaders reveal keys to closing skills gaps that may just be holding you back.

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11 ERP Modules Most Businesses Overlook

Are you overlooking critical modules in your business? Delivering the fastest ROI possible starts with having the right resources. Download the expert guide today and learn what the 11 most popular ERP modules are so you can decide which ones to build into your implementation plan.

Plus, you'll get:

  • 8 insider tips on the most popular business modules (add-ons?)
  • Insights from business owners on their favorite business units
  • Analysts weigh in on the growth of cloud vs. on-premises ERP throughout 2024

What are you waiting for? Get our FREE one-page, quick-start guide on how adding ERP modules can drive value for your business now!

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9 Steps to Finding Your Perfect ERP Today

Download this quick, expert guide today and walk through these 9 easy steps to choosing an ERP that's perfect for you!

Plus, you'll learn how to:

  • Strategically identify systems
  • Win over skeptical colleagues
  • And much, much more!

Hurry - download this FREE quick-start guide on selecting the perfect ERP for your business now! Join THOUSANDS of businesses who have used it to transform and thrive during changing times.

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How to Build Your ERP Business Case

This guide provides the seven steps ERP champions should take when addressing decision-makers plus six best practices to ensure success. From building a big tent to picking the right KPIs, these tips will help you get ERP right, deliver major business benefits and enable data-driven growth.

  • Here's how to uncover your company's pain points.
  • ERP can help in three distinct areas.
  • Making a project plan is key, and here's who should be involved.
  • Analysts project the growth of cloud vs. on-premises ERP through 2024.

Get our FREE one-page quick-start guide on building your ERP business case now!

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How to Drive Profitability With Limited Resources: 8 Steps to Maximize Margins and Meet Customer Demand

Let’s face it: Not every product maximizes your margins. Turn a critical eye towards your product line by continuously gathering data on your best- and worst-performing SKUs. With information on hand, you can deploy resources — financial and human — in a way that maximizes revenue and profits. In this guide, you’ll learn how conducting a product rationalization process delivers an in-depth profile of every item your business sells. Not only does this give you insights into exactly how per-product sales and margins are changing over time, but it can also help you make tough decisions.

In this guide, you’ll learn the eight steps to make the most out of your top performing products so you can minimize the effects of higher costs and scarcity.

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Driving Inventory ROI: How CFOs Can Maximize Cash Flow and Minimize Loss

The right plan and the right technology can go a long way toward improving inventory decisions in a way that boosts cash flow. Finance chiefs need systems that provide a real-time picture of inventory and financials to create comprehensive, detailed forecasts and corresponding plans.

In this guide, we’ll explain the step-by-step approach that can help you optimize inventory purchases and the tools you need to do so efficiently and effectively. An integrated plan can help bring your business closer to the ideal inventory levels that lift revenue and profit.

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CFO’s Guide to Risk Management

How to Mitigate 8 Potential Hazards

CFOs have always worked to make their companies more fiscally resilient and agile. This guide covers how to proactively prepare for a wider range of risks, from rate hikes to continued supply chain constraints to cyberattacks.

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How 3 CFOs Are Growing Their Careers and Companies

What do finance chiefs from an eco-conscious apparel brand, a healthcare services provider and a high-growth startup focused on critical energy infrastructure have in common? More than you may expect. All oversee cross-functional teams, all are laser-focused on using data to inform strategy and all manage strategic external relationships. And none of them shies away from making fundamental business changes when conditions warrant.

In this guide, these three CFOs share insights into how they got where they are and how they’ve stayed at the top of their games through some challenging times.

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CFOs on Profits, Payroll and Peer Expectations: 500 Respondents Provide a 360° View of Finance Team Roles and Goals

Get insight into your peers’ revenue and profitability expectations, along with their overall outlook on the business, from our quarterly survey of 500 business leaders. We also asked non-finance respondents to rate the CFO’s performance – and found some stark contrasts to CFOs' self-analysis.

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The Data-Driven CFO: Refocusing on the KPIs That Matter

A data-driven CFO makes decisions based on timely information that’s relevant to where the business is and where it’s headed. So if your company is still operating from the same dashboard as a few years ago, it’s time to recalibrate. This guide covers how to select the right KPIs, how to use associated metrics to keep employees on track — and why making your reporting actionable may just be the smartest move you can make right now.

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8 Actions to Manage Inflation: Expert-Backed Strategies for Proactive CFOs

With consumer price increases hitting a new, multi-decade high, what previously seemed like transitory inflation is now a longer-term issue. We’ve assembled eight steps for financial leaders to ensure that they not only weather this inflation surge but also set themselves up for success in the new normal of costs.

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The CFO’s Guide to Structuring for Growth

When companies reach about $10 million in annual revenue, they tend to outgrow the systems and processes that got them there. At this critical point, it's time to invest in new technology and build new processes that will fuel the next stage of growth — to $50 million and beyond. This 10-chapter ebook provides a playbook for finance leaders as they structure for growth in the finance arena as well as sales, staffing, data analytics and more.

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CFO's Leadership Playbook

The role of the CFO is changing. As responsibilities continue to grow, so does the need to develop yourself as a strategic leader. To succeed, it’s time to craft your own playbook for career advancement.

In Build Boldly, author Bolanle Williams-Olley offers practical steps to define your career path, become a strategic partner, challenge the norm, and create a work environment that nurtures and retains great people.

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The Hidden Costs of QuickBooks

For most businesses, QuickBooks offers a functional, entry-level accounting system that can meet their early needs. But with growth comes the need for a more sophisticated accounting system and stronger financial and inventory controls. Download this guide to learn why companies switch From QuickBooks to NetSuite.

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CFO Guide: 4 Inflation Metrics to Watch Now

US inflation is now at a four-decade high. For CFOs, tracking external inflation indicators is of highest priority. This guide breaks down the four main inflation measures provided by the Federal Government, as well as supplemental indicators that could prove critical in predicting trends and guiding decisions.

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6 Steps to Reduce Carrying Costs and Increase Profits

As supply chain disruptions continue to plague businesses, many are seeking to shift from temporary fixes to strategic long-term changes that will help them minimize the impact of supplier backorders, shipping delays and labor shortages. Carrying costs are one of the hidden, variable expenses, that can have a significant impact on profitability.

In this guide we’ll examine carrying costs, how they can impact profits and outline the steps you can take to optimize inventory levels and reduce these costs.

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Survey Finds Midmarket Execs Bearish on Payroll Hikes, Bullish on Operations

Get a pulse on your peers’ spending plans in our latest survey of midmarket executives. Notable findings: Finance leaders’ highest spending priorities for the year are operations and technology. Their lowest priority, however, is surprising given the economic climate.

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Cloud ERP Saves Growing Law Firms Time and Money

By freeing themselves of outdated technology and implementing a unified ERP, growing law firms can save time and money, do more with less and attract young, tech-savvy attorneys to their teams.

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Finance Hacks for a Faster Close

How Continuous Accounting Saves Time and Keeps You Compliant

In today’s ever-changing business environment, organizations need real-time information and metrics to inform decisions and quickly evaluate results. This is possible only with continuous accounting. Companies that fail to adopt this approach, clinging instead to traditional accounting processes, will rely on outdated information and risk underperforming competitors. We’ll cover it all in this 8-minute read.

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An ERP Strategy for Growing Mid-Market Utility Companies

To compete effectively in the energy market, maintain service uptimes and improve customer service levels, utilities companies need a cloud ERP platform that can effectively manage intra-state or intra-country transactions, handle industry-specific workflows and control specific operating functions.

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Technology Helps Genetic Testing and Research Firms Do More With Less

Genetic testing and research firms need strong technology foundations that they can discover, grow and commercialize on. And while most start out with a brilliant idea, a few employees, an initial capital outlay and a basic financial program like QuickBooks, as these companies progress, their technology also needs to expand. NetSuite and SOAProjects help pre-revenue genetic testing and research firms run leaner, automate key processes, plan for the future and do more with less.

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Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Age

The role of the CFO has transformed from that of a historical record keeper to a forward-looking strategist. While historical financial metrics will always be important to management and investors, new data science tools and methodologies can and should be applied to business data to extract greater value.

Read how CFOs can utilize technology to make better financial decisions and scale for growth.

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Improving the Return on Returns: 9 Strategies for Improving Reverse Logistics

For many products-based companies, returned goods are an afterthought. Too often, recovering as much money as possible from these orders is not the priority; speed and convenience are. This guide will reveal strategies to improve your reverse logistics operations in a way that lowers costs and boosts profitability.

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Survey Reveals Drivers Behind the Great Resignation

Our survey examines how executives, managers and workers view the new challenges of the workplace and whether various echelons of workers see eye-to-eye on the best ways to manage through the so-called Great Resignation. A key finding: Executives think workers are happier than they actually are, while managers understand worker sentiment — or think it’s worse than it is.

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Technology That Catapults High-Growth Government Contracting Into the 21st Century

This guide explores the current state of technology among high-growth government contractors operating in the aerospace, defense and energy sectors and explains how a cloud ERP supported by an expert implementation partner can help organizations affordably and efficiently embrace new opportunities.

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Four Reasons to Use NetSuite Financial and Operational Data With NetSuite Planning and Budgeting

How businesses use NetSuite financial and operational data with NetSuite Planning and Budgeting.

Successful business modeling, forecasting and reporting can be incredibly difficult parts of a business’s operations. Frequent swings in consumer demand or delays in supply chains can compound the difficulty. But fundamentally, without an accurate and reliable flow of transactional and operational data to your planning solution, fast and flexible decision-making is nearly impossible.

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Tips to Tackling Top NetSuite Admin Tasks

As a time-stretched NetSuite Administrator, every day your plate is full of different requests from your organization, requiring you to work more efficiently just to meet these demands. Download this ebook and discover quick tips for tackling some of the most common day-to-day Admin tasks.

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Project Accounting: Effectively Invoice Clients for Better Cash Flow and Customer Experience

The success of a project in a services-based business depends on accurate time and expense inputs, billing rules, workflows, and processes. Knowing the correct amount to bill isn’t always easy, and billing for projects with multiple deliverables spread over weeks, months, or even years requires detailed visibility and project tracking. In this business guide, learn why keeping an accurate record of tasks completed, hours worked, and pass-through costs is essential to improving cash flow, billing, and customer relationships.

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Jumpstart Your CFO Career

For a new CFO, operating without a clear job description in those critical first 90 days can be a challenge. Determining what priorities to focus on for long-term success requires developing relationships with key stakeholders, getting comfortable with the numbers, and identifying key performance indicators early on.

Learn how CFOs can plan for—and execute on—lasting and sustainable transformations in The 80/20 CFO.

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The CFO's Guide to Planning and Analysis: How to Hit Your Goals and Be Ready for What's Next?

Perhaps the biggest lesson to come out of 2020 for businesses was the value of constantly assessing operating conditions and adjusting plans in response to changing market realities. Virtually all companies have had to establish procedures to help manage cash flows and satisfy changing customer demand in a virtual world, giving many leaders a new appreciation for using data and analysis to optimize their business. This guide discusses best practices for continuous planning and how to institutionalize the use of data collection to allow for assessing and reassessing plans at any time.

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How to Raise Capital for Business Growth

Growth capital can help businesses significantly increase their value, but it's important to be clear on how these funds will drive growth. Download this business guide to understand best practices for teams raising growth capital and which financing options best align with your team's growth strategy.

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Cloud ERP for High-Growth, Early-Stage Life Sciences Companies

Combining NetSuite with industry-focused modules, Archer Insights helps high-growth, early-stage life sciences companies achieve their commercialization goals with little risk.

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How to Pick KPIs That Matter—No Matter the Situation

Tracking a full range of KPIs is an important finance department function, but depending on the situation, some metrics should lead the discussion.

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Setting the Profit Bar High

Survey Reveals Optimism in C-Suite

We interviewed 500 managers and executives at companies with annual revenues under $250 million in July 2021 as part of Brainyard’s quarterly survey, which gauged sentiment and priorities across industries, job levels and job functions. In this guide, we delve deeper into data around industry outlooks and revenue, profit and demand expectations to understand how these respondents are looking at the next year.

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5 Tricks to Make Your ERP Implementation a Success

Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can be a complex undertaking and affects many parts of a business. All phases of a typical ERP implementation have specific objectives, although they may vary slightly from one company to another.

In this guide, we discuss how to navigate the steps and deploy a platform on schedule with careful planning and an organized, phased implementation approach.

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Using Tech to Coordinate Field Service Operations and Delivery Management

Integrating the most essential components of field service and delivery management into ERP can eliminate repetitive processes and manual work. See how Global Data Services and NetSuite work together to improve visibility for logistics and transportation companies.

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7 Top Priorities for the C-Suite and Their Lieutenants

Where They’re Spending—and Why

For companies looking to rebound after the pandemic-induced recession, business conditions have presented a few obstacles: long-term supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, inflation, changing regulations and COVID-19 surges, just to name a few.

Despite these difficulties, business leaders displayed broad optimism along with their plans to handle the challenges in Brainyard’s quarterly survey. Here, we dive deeper into the concerns, priorities and strategies of the 500 respondents to further understand how companies with under $250 million in annual revenue are planning for the next 12 months.

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Overcoming the 9 Key Financial Challenges All Small Businesses Face

How to Conquer Cash Flow, Payroll, Taxes and More

There are nine financial challenges that almost every business—new or otherwise—confronts at one time or another, and addressing them is crucial to keeping the doors open. From cash flow management to closing the books on time, knowledge of the most common issues can help your business make plans and put solutions in place that help avoid problems. Read our tops for overcoming this issues and put your business on solid financial ground.

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Build or Buy a Data Warehouse? The Pros and Cons

Understanding Data Warehouse Options

A good business intelligence strategy begins with centralizing all your data in one place and formulating the analyses needed to help your business grow. Companies currently attempting this with spreadsheets know how cumbersome, unreliable and time consuming manual data analysis can be. That’s where a data warehouse and analytics can help support your business intelligence strategy.

But is it better to build from scratch or simply buy your own?

Download this Business Guide to determine which option is best for you when considering:

  • Why business intelligence initiatives fail
  • Availability and costs of developing your own business intelligence software
  • Supporting and maintaining a data warehouse
  • Time to realize value from your business intelligence investment

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Giving the Transportation and Logistics Industry the Power of Cloud ERP

Seeing high demand for their services, transportation and logistics companies are replacing their aging, disparate technology systems with NetSuite's cloud ERP software that’s supported by BORN Group's implementation team and deep industry expertise.

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Ringing the Bell at Lightning Speed: How Cloud ERP Helps Speed Up IPO Readiness

Timing is critical when you’re taking a company public. Here’s how NetSuite and Connor Group work together to support a fast, cost-conscious and successful path to IPO readiness.

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Using Tech to Coordinate Field Service Operations and Delivery Management

This guide delves into the field service, transportation and logistics management challenges that organizations face when using aging technology and spreadsheets and explains how cloud ERP plus an integrated field service and delivery management application helps companies eliminate repetitive processes, reduce manual work and improve efficiencies.

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NetSuite Cloud ERP: The Perfect Fit for the Hospitality Industry

Managing aspects of the business like finances, accounting, marketing and customer service usually takes a lot of labor and many different business systems. Hospitality organizations typically rely on separate point of sale (POS) systems, accounting programs and spreadsheets to run their complex operations. This business guide explores the benefits of replacing aging, disparate technology systems and spreadsheets with a unified cloud ERP.

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Shining a Light on the Value of ERP for Solar Manufacturers and Installers

As solar companies are navigating rising raw material prices and persisting supply chain interruptions, many lack the real-time visibility into financials that they need. POWERHOME SOLAR helps its customers achieve energy independence by selling renewable energy at prices below standard utility rates.

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The Risks of Trusting QuickBooks: 8 Red Flags You Can’t Afford to Ignore

As an entry-level accounting system, QuickBooks is a logical choice for small businesses and entrepreneurs looking for an easy way to track basic finances. And it works—until it doesn’t.

For many businesses, QuickBooks can create time-intensive problems that add up to hours lost and opportunities missed. Download this business guide to learn the top signs that QuickBooks is putting your business at risk and that it’s time to leverage a better, more comprehensive solution like NetSuite.

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Using Cloud ERP to Build Strong, Resilient AdTech Platforms

AdTech covers everything ranging from data management platforms to social media management applications to solutions that help companies bid on or sell ad inventory. Appficiency created The AdTech Solution, a NetSuite solution to address the industry's need to simplify operations, improve profitability, and increase transaction volume.

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Supporting the Missions, Visions and Core Values of Native American Tribal Casinos

With operations that incorporate lodging, golf, dining, gaming, retail stores and other business activities, tribal casinos provide a fun and entertaining outlet for visitors. Learn how cloud-based enterprise resource planning helps Native American tribes bring their multifaceted operations onto a single platform, promote operational efficiencies, maximize their resources and do more with less.

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Overstocks, Stockouts and Backorders, Oh My!: How to Balance Your Inventory With Accurate Forecasting

Maintaining the right levels of inventory can have big impacts on your bottom line, customer satisfaction and overall business success. With supply chains and customer demand changing rapidly, it can be hard to accurately forecast the right amount of inventory. Download this business guide to learn how to improve your inventory forecasting and say goodbye to overstock, stockouts and backorders.

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IT Executives Express Need for True Cloud ERP: See Why Companies Are Switching From Infor to NetSuite

There is perhaps no better advocate for how cloud-based ERP systems can support and help organizations to continue their growth than those who have been through it themselves. In this guide, we consolidated feedback from senior IT executives on why they switched from various Infor systems to NetSuite’s true cloud-based ERP, highlighting the pitfalls of fake cloud and on-premises deployments and how these challenges impacted their business.

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The Controller’s Playbook: Balancing Process and Strategy as the Role Evolves

Just as the CFO role has in recent years incorporated change management and long-term growth initiatives, the role of controllers is also evolving. While controllers have always exhibited logic, attention to detail and a process-centric mindset, their expanded role requires soft skills around leadership, collaboration and communication, both with their teams and with others throughout the company. This guide discusses how controller’s can balance changes and add value with newfound responsibilities.

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Business Leaders Eye Growth: 12 Months and Beyond

Business leaders—especially those from the finance department—are largely optimistic about their businesses' prospects through mid-2022, according to NetSuite Brainyard's quarterly survey. Get a full picture of your peers' priorities, plans and concerns in this report.

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Your Playbook for a Profitable Subscription Offering

Popularity around subscription offerings has surged—and it shows no sign of stopping soon. As consumer demand grows, competition in the space does as well, further highlighting the need for businesses to understand the intricacies of subscription offerings and its pricing.

While the process can be intensive, the appropriate pricing approach and knowledge of subscriptions will reap the rewards of attracting and retaining customers—and produce a new, valuable revenue stream. Learn more in this ebook.

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Making the Airline Charter Industry Stronger, Faster and Smarter With Cloud ERP

In this guide, we look at the key technology challenges that today’s airline charter companies are dealing with and show how cloud ERP with integrations into airline charter-specific solutions can help organizations overcome these issues.

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Connecting the Dots: Uniting Back-Office and Field Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry

Without an ERP solution in place, oil and gas organizations wind up spending too much time and energy on project approval, construction management and invoicing processes. And without a direct connection between their field operations and back-offices, these companies can’t effectively align these two critical aspects of their operations.

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How Cloud ERP Supports Private Equity Firms’ Unique Operational Needs

With NetSuite’s private equity features as its foundation, Bridgepoint Consulting built out a complete solution for PE firms that want to increase speed and accuracy, and improve tracking of their financial transactions.

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Top 10 Finance Processes to Automate Now

There are key steps businesses can take to start automating processes and realizing the benefits of doing so. Many companies begin by leveraging technologies to automate different parts of the accounting and financial processes. Financial data is core to everything the business does, so it must be accurate and up to date. Once that’s in place, what should companies focus on automating? Download this business guide to learn more.

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The CFO’s Guide to Recurring Revenue: 5 Major Obstacles and the Keys to Overcome Them

From Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and movies on demand, to subscription boxes and online memberships, recurring revenue models are changing the nature of business, creating new opportunities for some and disrupting others.

Whether you’re planning a new venture, transforming an established company or trying to develop an additional sales channel, it’s important to understand how adopting a recurring revenue model impacts your business.

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Five Critical Steps to Prepare Your Business for New Funding

IPO activity and private equity fundraising are surging. Discover how to best prepare your business for new capital investment and the transition from private to publicly owned entity in this ebook. Download now.

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Holiday Inventory Hacks to Drive Profits: How to Mitigate Supply Chain Issues and Fulfill Orders on Time

Retailers make at least 20% of their annual revenue during the holiday rush, and typically more. Download this business guide to learn what steps you can take now to review inventory management processes, adopt automation, mitigate supply chain issues and deliver greater efficiencies this holiday season.

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A Unified ERP Solution for Defense Contract Audit Agency Compliance

Whether securing their first government contract or acquiring larger opportunities, companies of all sizes need a DCAA compliance solution that’s built on NetSuite's cloud ERP to create a complete business management solution. Learn more.

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Robust Technology Tools for Growing Real Estate Brokerages

NetSuite's cloud ERP and Allied Cloud’s industry expertise helps real estate brokerages save time, gain efficiencies and keep more of their hard-earned dollars. Real estate companies need the right technology tools to streamline their workflows and support their core missions of putting the dream of homeownership within reach of as many people as possible.

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Make or Break Metrics: 20 KPIs Every Growing Business Should Track

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable business metrics that track and measure an organization’s progress toward its strategic objectives. More than just numbers, KPIs tell a story about how well a company is performing.

The immense amount of information available to decision-makers today can also be overwhelming, so we pared it down to 20 widely used KPIs relevant to most businesses. This business guide explains why KPIs matter, the characteristics of a good KPI and provides a list of popular financial and operational KPIs.

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9 Developments Shaping the Future of Accounting

The role of accounting is rapidly changing as focuses shift to understanding business processes, automation and data analytics. This business guide discusses trends and technologies accounting teams should be aware of and how to embrace the transition into a more strategic role.

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Baseball and Business Intelligence

The operational and financial data of a business is incredibly valuable. Many companies struggle to capture this value, and a result miss opportunities to improve their business. Contrast that with Major League Baseball, data is used to scout players, manage lineups and much, much more. Professional baseball teams not only have access to vast amounts of real-time data, they also have powerful analytics solutions to help them make the most of it. The results speak for themselves: better pitching, more runs scored and more wins. Wouldn’t it be great if working with business data could be just as easy as it is for major league teams?

If the goal is to engage the organization to improve performance and focus on key responsibilities, real-time feedback and constant monitoring of what matters most, then NetSuite is a home run.

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The CPA of the Future Is a Strategic Advisor

Future—and current—accountants, get ready: the CPA Exam is changing, reflecting a rapid evolution of the profession as a whole. With many traditional CPA tasks ripe for automation, accountants are now seeking expertise in technology, data sciences and strategy.

For experienced CPAs, this shift represents an opportunity. This business guide will cover the future of your role and tips for keeping up-to-date in this fast-changing field.

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Innovating and Optimizing Funeral and Cemetery Management

Overdue for a technological overhaul, companies in the death care industry are often reliant on basic accounting software and spreadsheets. This business guide explains the struggles that companies in the sector are grappling with and shows how a turnkey solution based on NetSuite is helping organizations tackle those issues.

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21st Century Business Tools for the Construction Industry

In an industry where, according to one survey, only 23% of CIOs have a clear technology strategy, see how NetSuite cloud ERP and Appficiency's Construction Solutions provide an end-to-end technology suite that helps eliminate manual processes, reduce spreadsheets and increase project profitability.

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7 Strategies for Growth: Seizing an Unparalleled Opportunity

Strategies and technologies like capturing new revenue streams, flexible fulfillment, and operating the business from anywhere all provide new opportunities for growth. Discover how to capitalize on this opportunity with planning, positioning and a quick reaction to incoming data.

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How to Fill More Orders With Less Labor: Why Mobile Scanning is Easier Than You Think

Despite the fact that barcodes are easy to create, only about half of businesses are using mobile scanners in their warehouses and fulfillment centers today. For small businesses, it may seem like an aspirational goal—something to strive for when they are bigger. But the reality is mobile scanning is easy and inexpensive to adopt and you will likely benefit from it far earlier than you may expect. Download this business guide to understand the benefits of implementing mobile scanning into your day-to-day operations and steps for how to do it.

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A Practical Guide to Financial Modeling and Projections for Growing Businesses

Businesses of any size can take advantage of financial projections and modeling. What’s more, while much of the basic work can be done in spreadsheet applications, more sophisticated tools are now accessible for smaller organizations. View this ebook to learn the value of financial projections, what information you need to get started, a few popular models and how your business can leverage these techniques to thrive and grow.

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Using NetSuite Cloud ERP to Reshape the Small to Mid-Sized Utility Market

By combining a leading cloud ERP platform with utility-specific functionality, small to mid-sized utility companies can save time and money, meet ever-changing regulatory requirements and improve the customer experience. Learn more.

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How ERP Can Help PE Firms Standardize Their Portfolio Operations

Avoid inefficiencies and guard against economic uncertainty. Download this business guide to learn how ERP solutions can help PE firms gain a clear understanding of portfolio health, manage risk and accelerate portfolio growth.

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2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises

Oracle NetSuite named a Leader for 4th Year in a Row. Learn why Gartner identifies NetSuite as a Leader in this new Magic Quadrant report. Here are just a few benefits your business can experience with NetSuite:

  • Enable strategic decision-making for finance leaders and executives by providing real-time financial reports.
  • Drive business efficiency and eliminate hours of manual work with a seamless integration between financials, CRM and ecommerce.
  • Integrate data from acquisitions to easily transition newly acquired brands into your database.
  • Streamline business processes and free up time and resources needed to accelerate growth, drive innovation and remain competitive.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises, John Van Decker, Greg Leiter, Robert Anderson, 10 May 2021.

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Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting in the Cloud: Graduating from Spreadsheets

CFOs, accounting departments and FP&A teams are all doing heroic work leading companies through difficult times and embracing new tools like cloud-based planning solutions. Stop wasting time manually consolidating spreadsheets, fixing broken links and stuck in an endless revision loop. Learn how to escape spreadsheets to improve your budgets, forecasts and financial strategy.

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Oracle NetSuite Awarded the 2021 Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award

Each year, Frost & Sullivan’s global team of experts recognize companies at the innovation and growth forefront—those committed to creating new products and solutions that serve ever-evolving customer needs. Considering today’s strategic imperatives, including disruptive technologies, value chain compression, industry convergence, and new business models, delivering value as a market leader has never been more challenging.

Oracle NetSuite is proud to have been awarded this year’s Best Practices Product Leadership Award in the North American cloud ERP market. Download this report to read more on why we’ve been given this prestigious award.

SOURCE: Frost and Sullivan 2021 Product Leadership Award

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NetSuite vs. Intacct: Which One is Right for Your Business?

Read this business guide to learn why companies switch from Sage Intacct to NetSuite, the world’s #1 cloud ERP system. You’ll find a breakdown of key differences between the two platforms to help guide you through the decision process.

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Managing Inventory for your Services Business

Service-based businesses may not sell a product to their customers, but they still have inventory. Materials need to be accounted for in the warehouse, on service trucks and then when they are used for a client job. Managing this inventory manually using pen and paper or spreadsheets is time consuming and error prone. Worse, some businesses aren’t tracking it at all. Download this business guide to understand how an inventory management system could help your services business better manage inventory and increase profitability.

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Road to Success: NetSuite Administrator Resources

NetSuite is a robust, multifaceted system that improves productivity across an organization. To help you better manage your NetSuite solution, we have comprised a list of resources to make administering NetSuite easier and more efficient. Whether you’re just getting started or are looking for detailed how-tos, check out this business guide to learn more.

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Understand Which ERP Modules Your Business Needs — And When

The beauty of modular ERP software is that a company can add specific functionality while keeping the same foundation in place. There is no need to implement a new ERP system when requirements change, as long as the company chooses an established ERP provider with a wide selection of modules. Read more to find out which modules your business needs.

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Progress Billing

Getting billing right is critical for any business. Billing errors can damage customer relationships and are bad for reputation. From progress billing and milestone billing to simply billing for materials and hours worked, the billing process can be complicated and extremely challenging. In this guide, we discuss common billing challenges and how automation can solve many of the issues businesses face in their billing processes.

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Guide to Continuous Accounting: A Smart Approach to Better, Faster Decision-Making

As an accounting professional, chances are you spend an inordinate amount of time doing repetitive, manual tasks—when you could be sniffing out ways to be a hero and boost the financial performance of your business. For better, more timely financial insights, try replacing the traditional record-to-report process with super-powered continuous accounting. We’ll cover it all in this 8-minute read.

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Your Guide to VC Funding

Although the economic landscape in which entrepreneurs are operating has changed, there are still many financing options for those looking to build their big ideas. Companies in particularly resilient industries, such as those in the technology sector, are still seeking, and receiving, venture capital (VC) funding. And venture capitalists are still willing to spend. In this ebook, discover what elements of the VC funding process have changed in response to economic shifts and a complete guide from start to finish to securing VC funding for your business.

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ERP Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions: Are You Overlooking Revenue Leakage?

Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity comes fraught with pitfalls for both sides. Due diligence, the process of identifying and quantifying those pitfalls, requires a comprehensive review of all assets and liabilities of the target company spanning fixed assets, talent, intellectual property and more. However, an important, yet often overlooked, factor is the technology and integration considerations in M&A. Read more on important ERP considerations in M&A deals.

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The Future of Finance is in the CFO’s Hands

Chief financial officers are no longer heads down number crunchers. Between steering their companies through difficult business conditions, the imposition of remote work, impossible-to-predict scenarios, new regulations and emerging technology, they’ve practically needed superpowers. Find out the keys to becoming a superhero CFO in today’s high stakes business environment.

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Why ERP Flexibility is Critical for Today’s Corporate CFO: The Role of Financial Software in Adapting Business Models

Whether its new business models, new services, new markets or new pricing strategies, corporate CFOs need flexible, agile software to support them. This ebook discusses statistics and reasonings for why corporate businesses need technology that can build, rather than hinder their future.

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Brainyard Winter 2021 Business Leader Outlook Survey

The events of the past year have surely changed many aspects of business and society at large. But have they changed our approach to business? According to Brainyard’s latest survey of 148 respondents from across industries, many business leaders are ready to get back to business in the new normal, focused squarely on two things: sales and customer acquisition. Download the full report for other key findings on executives’ top priorities, concerns and spending plans this year.

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New Year, New ERP

The start of a New Year can be a source of inspiration to make some changes for the better. Whether you are seeking greater efficiency, cost savings, improved visibility or agility, or growth of profits or margins, replacing your current business solutions with a new Enterprise Resource Planning system may very well be a good place to start.

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Eight Signs QuickBooks is Holding Your Business Back

Are you ready to turbo-charge your business? Tired of struggling with aging business systems, fragmented reporting and never-ending IT costs? Switching from QuickBooks to NetSuite's cloud solution enables companies to lower costs, streamline key business processes, boost productivity and be more competitive. Manage your business end-to-end with one integrated business suite for all your core processes. No more juggling of separate software applications and wasting time and resources maintaining and upgrading a hairball of on-premises software applications.

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Secrets of Rockstar CFOs

Rockstar CFOs understand the missions, goals, and objectives of the organizations they lead, and are often charged with articulating this vision to investors and others. As CFO, you now have the opportunity to make things happen, not just record what happened after the fact. Learn more about how to become a CF-GO, not a CF-NO.

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NetSuite SuitePeople Unlocking the “Suiteness” of ERP

33% of surveyed companies in the new report use an HR solution outside of their ERP – these companies are wasting hundreds of hours keeping multiple systems updated and thousands of dollars on custom integrations to their financial system each year. This Mint Jutras report dives into how NetSuite customers can eliminate the time spent reconciling and updating multiple applications by switching to SuitePeople, the value of unifying HR information with Finance for increased HR data quality and integrity and why SuitePeople brings analytics, visibility, and efficiency into daily HR operations.

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Making the Move to an ERP Suite

Having an accounting foundation is important for any business, but eventually you need more than tracking debits and credits. To thrive, you need all parts of your organization working together seamlessly in an ERP. Learn more about how your business can improve with an ERP in this Mint Jutras article.

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Enterprise Case Study: Using Advanced Customer Support to Maximize the Value of an ERP Investment

Learn about how these customers maximized the value of their NetSuite solution

Maximizing the value of an ERP implementation is important, especially as a business’s requirements may change over time as it grows or adapts its business model. This, in turn, means that what an organization needs from its ERP solution—and how the system is configured—may also change.

For organizations that want to make the most of their ERP implementation and are ready to go beyond basic support, a premium customer support package like NetSuite’s Advanced Customer Support can be a cost-saving measure in the long term. This is especially true for enterprises with complex ERP configurations, where having an on-demand support team can save time and ensure the solution is being optimized.

This case study looks at the experiences of two companies that have signed up to this NetSuite ACS service: MusclePharm, a nutritional supplements company, and business cloud provider Domo.

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CFO Insights Survey: Leading the Growth Charge

CFOs were quick to cut in April to conserve cash. Now, they’re ready to get back to spending as usual—much more quickly than other leaders in their businesses. That’s the headline finding of our September 2020 survey of 120 CFOs and other business leaders. Check out our other key findings here.

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Mint Jutras: Two Tier ERP in the Global, Digital Economy

Today’s global, digital economy has created new opportunities for companies of all sizes, but this also means businesses must operate differently from the large monolithic enterprises of yesterday. They need an ERP solution that supports the main office as well their subsidiaries. Find out more on how businesses should be evaluating their ERP in this Mint Jutras article.

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7 Ways Small Businesses Benefit from ERP

Companies that continue to rely on spreadsheets, poorly-integrated best-of-breed software and to manage their operations face an uphill battle to overcome today’s business challenges.

ERP has come a long way in the nearly three decades since the term was originally coined. The cloud has put the power of ERP into the hands of startup, midsized and large companies that need all of the benefits outlined in this business guide.

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Budgeting in the Cloud—Graduating from Spreadsheets

Download this business guide to learn how organizations are increasingly turning from spreadsheets to cloud-based tools to meet budgeting demands.

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Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting in the Cloud—No More Spreadsheets

Stop wasting time manually consolidating spreadsheets, fixing broken links and stuck in an endless revision loop. Learn how you can escape spreadsheets with cloud planning solutions and improve your budgets, forecasts, and financial strategy, and how spreadsheets are holding you back from financial success.

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Money in the Bank: 6 Ways to Stretch Your Business Budget

This spring, the pandemic led many business leaders to worry more about cash flow than profits. By summer, a follow up survey of 130 business leaders found cash flow, current accounts receivable and working capital were still the KPIs in leaders’ minds, with gross profit margin not far behind. This report covers six strategies, tools and techniques to achieve your cash goals and stretch your business budget.

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Money in the Bank: 6 Ways to Run a More Profitable Business

Increased profits are both a top success factor, and, along with achieving revenue goals, a major source of anxiety for 2020. This report is the covers executives' key priorities and worries as it relates to business profitability and six profit-building strategies to meet and exceed your profitability goals.

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The Future of Business: How Finance is Becoming a Catalyst for Change

Our Summer 2020 Finance Priorities Survey is dedicated to understanding how the role of finance teams has changed since the pandemic began and how these professionals are contributing to their organizations’ recovery efforts. Normally conservative finance leaders are now pushing to change business as usual, including advocating for a larger product set and technology investments. One problem: Priorities for finance team retention and training are not shared by other executives.

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The Future of Finance is in the CFO's Hands

CFOs have never worked harder. In response to COVID-19, they’ve steered their organizations through the most difficult conditions businesses have likely ever faced by pulling financial and operational levers they never thought they’d have to pull, including ones they didn’t even know were there. Find out the key to CFOs success in today’s high stakes business environment.

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7 Ways Cloud ERP Helps Organizations Build Resilience and Agility

While operating effectively in dynamic situations takes leadership, management ability and the right corporate culture, it also requires systems that provide a solid foundation and have the flexibility to adjust as business needs change. Learn how cloud ERP helps businesses:

  • Build resilience and create momentum for their business.
  • Share information and collaborate—even when everyone works remotely.
  • Track performance, increase efficiency and minimize operational risk.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises

With finance teams increasingly shifting to cloud financial management, organizations can use Gartner’s research to identify the vendors to help them compete in rapidly evolving business environments.

Learn why Gartner identifies NetSuite as a Leader in its new Magic Quadrant report. We believe you’ll also discover NetSuite’s benefits, including:

  • Enabling strategic decision-making for finance leaders and executives by providing real-time financial reports.
  • Driving business efficiency and eliminating hours of manual work with a seamless integration between financials, CRM and ecommerce.
  • Integrating data from acquisitions to easily transition newly-acquired brands into their database.
  • Streamlining business processes and free up time and resources needed to accelerate growth, drive innovation and remain competitive.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises, Robert Anderson, John Van Decker, Greg Leiter, 29 June 2020.

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Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting in the Cloud

When it comes to planning, budgeting and forecasting, many FP&A teams continue to rely on the same old tools and manual processes that often fall short: spreadsheets. Learn how you can quickly and easily produce forecasts, models, and ultimately deliver a plan of action that aligns the entire company to execute upon.

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Looking Beyond QuickBooks

Even the smallest businesses must balance its books and meet government compliance and regulatory financial reporting requirements. Early on, many small businesses turn to QuickBooks as an easy-to-use, affordable accounting solution. But there is more to your business than just debits and credits, paying bills and collecting cash. As your business continues to grow, you will eventually need to look beyond spreadsheets and QuickBooks to a broader solution.

Download this report to understand how to recognize when the time is right for taking that next step, and what you can expect if indeed you do.

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IDC MarketScape Names Oracle NetSuite a Worldwide Leader in SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Finance and Accounting Applications

Financial software has made great strides over the past year, increasing the visibility and transparency of workflows—allowing organizations to become more agile and strategic. Today’s financial applications are being asked to support evolving business models, shifting regulations, changing deployment models, converging workflows and the emergence of digital business.

The IDC MarketScape evaluates major vendors to provide practical advice and direction for business leaders. The IDC MarketScape assesses vendors based on a wide range of criteria, including functionality, discussions with customers, technical support, account management, marketing message, total cost of ownership, ease of integration, user interface and ROI.

Oracle NetSuite is proud to be a leader on their list. Download the Report excerpt to learn the IDC MarketScape’s guidance for midmarket businesses looking for a financial application vendor.

SOURCE: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Midmarket Finance and Accounting Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment, by Kevin Permenter, Frank Della Rosa, Shari Lava, and Mickey North Rizza, Apr 2020, IDC Doc#US45837220.

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The Future of Business: Top 5 Executive Trends to Watch in 2020

What’s to come in 2020? The latest research from Brainyard polled more than 350 finance and non-finance executives and here’s what we found. Finance and non-finance executives are on two different pages when it comes to their worries and priorities this year. Dig into those findings and more in the full report.

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State of the CFO Role

Accounting and finance functions are constantly changing—from new regulations to tax reform to advancements in technology. Because of this change, CFOs are forced to take on broader responsibilities beyond traditional number crunching. Although the expanded role of the modern CFO is not a new concept, it’s clear that it's still something that CFOs are struggling to keep up with.

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What to Look for in Your Next ERP: It’s All About the Platform

Looking for a new ERP solution is not something you do every day. Today's flexible and technology-enabled solutions should get you much closer to 100% (fit) than ever before, without the need for invasive customization. Download this report to help narrow down your short list for ERP vendors.

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What to Look for in Your Next ERP: Traditional Criteria Have Not Gone Away

When looking for a new ERP solution, fit and functionality are crucial to finding the right solution. Also equally important today is the whole user experience, including easy navigation, visual appearance and personalization, and don't forget integration capabilities and the quality of built-in reporting and analytics. Any evaluation today requires you to raise the bar in terms of your search. Download this report for some inspiration and tips on what to look for.

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From QuickBooks to NetSuite Financials

Join the more than customers running their business on NetSuite. Are you ready to turbo-charge your business? Tired of struggling with aging business systems, fragmented reporting and never-ending IT costs? Switching from QuickBooks to NetSuite's cloud solution enables companies to lower costs, streamline key business processes, boost productivity and be more competitive. Manage your business end-to-end with one integrated business suite for all your core processes. No more juggling of separate software applications and wasting time and resources maintaining and upgrading a hairball of on-premise software applications.

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NetSuite Invests in Strategic Planning

NetSuite Planning and Budgeting meets SuiteSuccess. Mint Jutras overviews the newest updates to NetSuite’s Planning and Budgeting solution that were announced at SuiteWorld 2019, and how making Planning and Budgeting a part of SuiteSuccess will deliver increased value with a faster timeline.

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The Rise of the Post Modern CFO

The CFO role faces a plethora of pressures. As the job evolves from that of a traditional finance and accounting executive to a broadly strategic function within enterprises, fundamental changes in business models and non-traditional challengers require a postmodern CFO archetype to emerge. Using the Constellation Business Hierarchy of Needs as a framework, this report highlights the key shifts in the role.

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A Finance Director’s Guide to International Expansion for High-Growth Companies

Once a business has experienced success at home, international expansion is often seen as the logical next step. But while entering foreign markets can be an opportunity to diversify operations and to tap into new sources of talent and raw materials, international expansion comes with very specific challenges for finance teams. This business guide offers best practices and considerations for finance teams taking their companies global.

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The Future of Cloud Finance is Intelligent

In an era of new business models and an AI-driven environment, organizations must take the plunge and upgrade their financial management software to meet these new market conditions. Cloud finance offerings provide the best way to modernize existing environments and meet the challenges of the postmodern CFO. This market overview provides the background on the market trends, user requirements and the vendor landscape for this rapidly growing software segment, which will become a $35 billion market by 2025.

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The Top Five Ways Advanced Customer Support Optimizes Your Business

NetSuite has created a single offering to meet all support and ongoing sustainment and optimization needs across all products and all markets with Advanced Customer Support (ACS). ACS is a a proactive, managed subscription service designed to sustain, maintain and optimize a company’s entire NetSuite solution on a continuous basis. Read this guide to learn the top ways that ACS can optimize your business.

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Six Reasons Fast-Growing Businesses Choose NetSuite Over Sage Intacct

It's a great feeling when things fit perfectly, from the clothes we wear, to a significant other or the cup holder in your car! But what about achieving a perfect fit with the software you need to run your growing business? The right software fit can be the key factor to growing and thriving versus just surviving. In many cases, finding the right software fit for your business can be like trying to piece together a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, but with the right cloud-based ERP, it can be as simple as aligning few pieces or in maybe just one piece! When growing companies discover that they have outgrown their software, and it no longer fits their growing needs, it's time to look for a new, modern cloud-based ERP like NetSuite.

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Enterprise Case Study: Using ERP in a Startup – Paperwork Pros

How a billing service company is taking control of its business processes from the start.

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IT Executives Express Need for True Cloud ERP: See Why Companies are Switching from Epicor to NetSuite to Drive Growth

There is perhaps no better advocate for how cloud-based ERP systems can support and help organizations to continue their growth than those who have been through it themselves. In this guide, we consolidated feedback from senior IT executives on why they switched from various Epicor systems to NetSuite’s true, cloud-based ERP, highlighting the pitfalls of fake cloud and on-premise deployments and how these challenges impacted their business.

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The Top Five Reasons Learning Cloud Support is Good for Your Business

The following are the top five reasons why ongoing access to training through NetSuite’s Learning Cloud Support is good for business.

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Case Study: Why Two-Tier Enterprise Resource Planning is a Smart Strategy for Growth

Read how Shaw Industries, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the world’s largest carpet manufacturer with more than $6 billion in revenue and approximately 22,000 employees worldwide is using NetSuite ERP to expand globally while streamlining operations and saving millions in capital and operating expenses.

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SWOT Assessment: NetSuite Release 2018.1

In this SWOT Assessment, Ovum Consulting concludes that organizations looking for ERP modernization will benefit from NetSuite's cloud deployment, rapid release of new functionality and the ability to integrate with other cloud services. “The result is a fully modern suite of business applications, enabling organizations to move beyond the constraints of their legacy ERP deployment, or for first-time deployment, to benefit from an agile solution that meets the needs of a modern dynamic business.”

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Can Enterprise Applications Impact Your Growth Trajectory?

In this report, Mint Jutras references results from its 2018 Enterprise Solution Study and found that ERP is at the core of applications necessary to support growth. 37.5% of the fastest growing companies in this study say ERP is critical and has a direct impact on growth. The basics of a cloud ERP solution help boost growth by providing:

  • More productivity
  • More and better communication and collaboration
  • More intelligence to help businesses decide on their next strategic move

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Why Fast-Growing Companies Leave Sage and Adopt Cloud-based Financials to Accelerate Growth

Sage may be limiting your business growth, read the common pains experienced by growing businesses. Find out if it's time for you to consider the cloud-based products and services that NetSuite offers. Access our guide to learn the 5 triggers that indicate Sage is failing your business.

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Avoiding the Cost of Complacency

In our ever-changing, dynamic economy, avoiding “creative destruction” is crucial for staying afloat. The pace of this destruction is increasing, so it’s important for companies to learn to evolve with that changing environment. This business guide looks at four specific areas that all businesses should review in today’s dynamic economy.

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The Value of a True Cloud ERP Platform

Today, cloud computing enables companies to adapt to changing business models, both strategically and operationally. In the current state of the market, not all cloud providers can step up to the challenge of providing an integrated offering, and that forces companies to manage more than they want to. Discover how NetSuite has championed the cause to deliver not only a true cloud platform but also strives continuously to develop a truly integrated suite for our growing global customer base of more than 24,000.

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A Finance Director's Guide to Auditing in High-Growth Organizations

Don't let the audit process stand in the way of your growing business. Learn how to automate your audit processes with an ERP system that saves you money and keeps your business healthy.

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High Impact Planning and Budgeting for High Growth Companies

Planning and budgeting are vital to smart, fact-based business decision-making, but many finance teams are mired in time-consuming, inefficient processes, using basic tools that deliver questionable results. In this business guide, we consider an approach to budgeting and planning that is based on best practices and leveraging the cloud.

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A Finance Director's Guide to International Expansion for High Growth Companies

Once a business has experienced success at home, international expansion is often seen as the logical next step. This can be particularly challenging for high-growth organizations that often find themselves expanding rapidly without established structures and processes, lack of experienced staff, stretched resources and a strategy that is also evolving as they grow. In this business guide, we consider an approach to international expansion that is based on best practices and leveraging the cloud.

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Revenue Recognition: As Easy as Depreciating a Fixed Asset

It's easy to become vexed by the new ASC 606 revenue recognition standards and overwhelmed at how to comply. But it can be quite simple—even as simple as depreciating a fixed asset. With the right software that manages seamless billing processes all the way through revenue recognition, businesses can ease compliance with ASC 606.

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Here's the Technology Growing Businesses are Investing in Right Now

“Digital transformation” is an industry buzzword, but not many people understand what digital innovation encompasses. Download the infographic to figure out what digital innovation really means and how companies are investing in it.

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Unlocking Growth: Examples of Enabling Growth with the Right System

While often overlooked, a company's IT system may either be an obstacle or enabler of continued expansion. In this ChainLink report, we explore two examples of companies that outgrew their existing IT system and the growth results they have seen as a result of their investment in a new system.

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Unlocking Growth: When a New System is the Key to Unleashing a Business’s True Potential

Despite differing missions and objectives, there seems to be one universal goal for all businesses: Sustained growth. It is important to understand not only what your company can do to achieve growth, but also what might be holding you back from that growth. Read this report from ChainLink Research to understand the indicators that a company’s growth is constrained by its core system.

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Tackling Inventory Dilemmas in an Online World

Despite the art and science of inventory management that has been developed over the years, many challenges still persist. Globalization, dramatic changes in business models including the rise of ecommerce, and advances in technology are forcing companies to re-examine their inventory management processes.

In this report, we will discuss the challenges and strategies for addressing the inventory dilemma. In doing so, we hope to broaden your view of what it means to manage inventory while also showing how the right technology partner can help to achieve both your financial and customer satisfaction goals of inventory management.

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Demystifying Blockchain: The Technology and Its Providers

Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, is one of the most talked about and intriguing technologies of the moment. This emerging technology is doing to transactions what the internet did to information, and it has the potential to disrupt many industries and businesses. Download the Report by Technology Evaluation Centers to discover the implications of blockchain on the modern business world and the related technology providers.

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The Total Economic Impact of Oracle NetSuite

Switching to a new ERP is a huge investment—every company making the move needs to consider the real benefits, costs and risks of taking action. Download the Report by Forrester Consulting to discover the quantified benefits of NetSuite ERP.

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Unifying Financials and Inventory

The system landscape of many companies, either in startup or complacency mode, includes QuickBooks as a financial management system and FishBowl as an “add-on” inventory management system. However, both systems have their limitations, which ultimately impact a company’s ability to innovate, scale and grow.

Read this business guide to understand the limitations of QuickBooks and FishBowl, and the value of managing your financials and inventory on one, integrated business management system like NetSuite.

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The Evolution of a Business System Hairball and How to Avoid It

As businesses grow and evolve, they add software and systems to manage departments, automate processes and provide insights into operations. This iterative process, done based on growth, competition and other factors, is rarely done holistically with long term goals in mind. The result is what many have deemed a "business system hairball". The emergence of cloud-based applications and Software-as-a-Service hasn't eliminated the hairball, it's just moved it to the cloud as low upfront costs facilitate departmental purchases without oversight from IT or costly hardware investments.

Read this business guide to understand how most businesses find themselves with a business system hairball, and learn how a holistic business management platform like NetSuite could simplify your back-end systems and untangle the mess.

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SuiteSuccess Spells Sweet Success for NetSuite Customers

Utilizing 20 years of experience delivering and implementing their cloud-based ERP platform, NetSuite has developed a new customer engagement model and business optimization method called SuiteSuccess. Since SuiteSuccess' formal announcement at SuiteWorld 2017, NetSuite has worked with several customers developing and refining its groundbreaking methodology. Read this Mint Jutras article to understand NetSuite's SuiteSuccess methodology and the value it has brought to a number of companies across multiple industries.

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IDC MarketScape Names NetSuite a Worldwide Leader in SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Finance and Accounting Applications

NetSuite has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Finance and Accounting Applications 2017 Vendor Assessment.

NetSuite, a pioneer in cloud computing and the first cloud ERP company, now helps more than customers in more than countries and territories transform their business operations and run their mission-critical business processes in the cloud.

The IDC assessment was based on an evaluation of 10 of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled financial and accounting applications software vendors in the market and based on a wide range of criteria, which include functionality, discussions with references, their perception of the vendor and software in terms of technical support, account management, marketing message, total cost of ownership, ease of integration, user interface, and ROI, among others.

Read an excerpt from the report to see what IDC has to say about us. Learn about IDC vendor inclusion criteria, marketscape methodology, advice for technology buyers, NetSuite analysis and more.

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The Economic and Strategic Benefits of Cloud Computing

Does SaaS save money? Traditional vendors of IT products and services argue that systems deployed on-premises are more cost-effective over the long run than their cloud-based counterparts. Cloud providers, on the other hand, argue that the upfront savings are significant and that the real benefits of SaaS are not in direct cost savings but in the strategic advantages that the cloud brings to the organization. For organizations to make intelligent decisions regarding the cloud, it is important to understand the relative costs of SaaS vs. on-premises systems. Download the Report from Computer Economics to uncover the truth about the strategic benefits of cloud computing.

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Understanding Cloud ERP Buyers and Providers

As organizations realize the benefits of cloud computing, an increasing number are committed to moving as many of their applications as possible away from their on-premises infrastructure. Without cloud ERP, an organization will still be running a significant percentage of its application portfolio on-premises. This report developed by Computer Economics describes the two major categories of cloud ERP buyers, as well as the two major categories of cloud ERP providers and concludes with recommendations for buyers looking to make the best choice.

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NetSuite named a Leader in IDC MarketScape Report

NetSuite has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Midmarket ERP Applications 2017 Vendor Assessment.

NetSuite, a pioneer in cloud computing and the first cloud ERP company, now helps more than customers in countries and dependent territories transform their business operations and run their mission-critical business processes in the cloud.

The IDC assessment was based on an evaluation of 14 of the leading SaaS and cloud-enabled vendors in the market and based on a wide range of criteria, which include: functionality, user interface, ease of use and implementation, scalability, language support, pricing model, financial stability and innovation and investment, among others.

Read an excerpt from the report to see what IDC has to say about us. Learn about IDC vendor inclusion criteria, advice for technology buyers, NetSuite analysis and more.

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How Smart Are Your Enterprise Applications?

We use the terms "smart" and "intelligence" a lot today, making the assumption our audience knows what we mean. Enterprise application solution providers do it all the time. They talk about smart devices, smart machines and even smart cities. Are we all on the same page, talking about the same things? Hardly. Just as there are different levels of intelligence in human beings, there are different levels of intelligence in enterprise applications. Download the Report to sort through some of the latest features, functions and even some new products coming on the market today.

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The Race to the Cloud – A Race to Innovation?

The race to the cloud is on! Large enterprise solution vendors claim to be the biggest; others claim to be the first, or the fastest growing, or the most complete. Do all these claims to be the biggest and best really matter to the companies moving in this direction? Download the Report to learn how buyers can separate the wheat from the chaff and find the ERP system that is right for their needs.

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SMBs: No, You’re Not Too Small for ERP

Many small and medium-size businesses fear Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) thinking it is too costly and complex for a business their size. Between stories and first hand experience of early ERP solutions, many see ERP as hard to implement and even harder to use. Enter Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which can equip modern businesses with feature-rich, easy to use and affordable ERP. Download the Report and hear from companies first hand about the benefits of making the move to cloud ERP.

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Shining a Light on the Clouds: Finding a True Cloud Solution

The Cloud continues to hang over the business computing landscape like, well, a cloud. Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS—all of it makes for a confusing alphabet soup for even the most experienced industry observers and IT pros.

And, as longstanding technology firms look for ways to get into the market and new entrants emerge, creating new terminology, claiming firsts and generally obfuscating the entire landscape, it only promises to get more confusing for technology buyers seeking a cost effective, scalable and agile solution for their needs. This guide serves to provide some clarity around the different flavors of cloud and a detailed explanation of why multi-tenant SaaS offers the greatest combination of value, agility and scalability.

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SuiteSuccess: NetSuite's Unified Industry Cloud Solution(s)

How can your business harness 20 years of industry-leading best practices in your next ERP implementation and execution? Enter SuiteSuccess—NetSuite's new customer engagement model that helps companies go the first mile fast, but also take on the last mile without expensive customizations and road blocks. Download the Business Guide from Mint Jutras to learn more about the SuiteSuccess methodology and the real benefits associated.

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The Case for a Continuous Close

The traditional financial close process implies that closing the books has a defined beginning, middle and end. Now, with the emergence of new trends and technologies such as the cloud, organizations implement modern financial management solutions like NetSuite to help them deliver a continuous close by providing unified platforms that allow for more efficient financial management operations. Learn about the benefits of adopting the continuous close orientation and discover how modern, best-of-breed ERP makes the continuous close a reality.

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Cloud ERP System for Enterprises – Key Considerations

This business guide discusses the ways in which cloud-based ERP drives global efficiencies for multi-national organizations and proposes evaluation criteria for cloud ERP vendor selection.

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Enterprising Moves for Cloud ERP

Enterprises need modern business solutions for modern business needs—and they're not getting them from legacy on-premise providers. Today, a number of drivers are coming together as a perfect storm to encourage enterprise-level adoption of cloud ERP solutions. This business guide highlights how modern businesses are rethinking ERP in the age of omnichannel and digital business.

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Bringing Agility to Billing with SuiteBilling

This prescriptive business guide discusses why billing is a strategic business function in today's marketplace and how NetSuite offers a next-generation billing solution to propel your business.

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Countdown to ASC 606: What Every Business Needs to Know

This thought leadership piece is a primer on the new, converged revenue recognition standard—ASC 606. The document offers practical advice on how Finance teams can prepare for compliance, and why a modern cloud-based financial system, with support for complex order management, billing and revenue recognition at its core, is critical for success. The document also describes why ASC 606 impacts the organization beyond Finance (IT, sales, professional services, legal) and provides a timeline for ensuring readiness as the adoption date approaches.

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Eliminate Spreadsheets: Optimizing the Resource Management Process

This business guide discusses the significant financial and efficiency benefits that services organizations realize through an optimized resource management process within a Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution.

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Empowering SMBs to Reach Beyond the Limitations of QuickBooks

Very often, SMBs have been faced with relying upon a hairball of dangerously unreliable spreadsheets that support aging accounting systems. This business guide explores the common obstacles faced by SMBs with outdated or disparate systems and addresses how SaaS applications can help mitigate the challenges associated with rapid growth.

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The Physics of Business Are Being Rewritten

Today, the physics of business are being rewritten by a new breed of bold CEOs, CIOs and CFOs. Yet, the harsh reality for most businesses is that the software systems that sit at the core of their organizations are not accelerating human ingenuity. This ebook examines the trends and factors driving change across virtually every industry and features interviews with leaders from some of the fastest-growing, disruptive companies around to share their key insights into business model innovation.

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Enabling the Modern Business Through IT

As the pace of innovation accelerates, customer needs change and industries converge, many companies find it challenging for their information technology to support the rapidly changing needs of the business. This business guide examines how organizations can evolve their IT infrastructure to enable modern business innovation, agility and growth.

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8 Ways Legacy ERP Harms Your Business

Download this ebook to learn the 8 ways by which outdated ERP systems hold back your business and how "version-less" cloud ERP can help eliminate costly upgrades, reduce IT infrastructure management and drive value with rapid implementation.

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The Great Debate: One Integrated Business System VS. Siloed Applications

This business guide covers the types of inefficiencies caused by running disparate business solutions and systems for different departments and how a software platform that unifies critical business processes helps companies grow more rapidly and profitably. This guide reviews numerous case studies of companies that switched from disparate software systems to an integrated software suite and also covers analysis by independent industry expert, Nucleus Research, of customers' ROI from using an integrated software suite.

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