Industry-Specific Cloud Computing Solutions to Meet the Unique Needs of Your Business

NetSuite understands the unique business processes and needs of your industry. Developed out of our experience working with thousands of companies, our industry software solutions help you get up and running faster with the capabilities of our cloud computing business management suite—including CRM, accounting/ERP, ecommerce and order management—while addressing your specific challenges.

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NetSuite meets the specific financial management needs of software companies with sophisticated revenue recognition, recurring revenue management and renewals management capabilities.

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The #1 Cloud-Based ERP/Financial Suite for Software Companies

With more than 750 software customers, NetSuite is the #1 cloud-based, integrated ERP/financial suite for software companies.

Key Benefits

• Gain real-time visibility into your business performance across finance, sales and service through role-based dashboards and KPIs specifically designed for the needs of software companies
• Meet your revenue recognition requirements, with support for SOP 81-1, SOP 97-2 & 98-9, SAB 101, and EITF 00-21, and the latest EITF 08-01 and EITF 09-03 rules
• Streamline billing processes with recurring revenue management functionality that frees up resources and reduces billing errors
• Automate the renewals process to ensure that sales, finance and service are focused on maximizing customer renewals
• Align sales and marketing with powerful CRM functionality, including advanced quote management, cross-sell and up-sell management and commissions management.

The #1 Cloud-Based ERP/Financial Suite for Wholesale Distribution Companies

The NetSuite Wholesale Distribution Edition is the only cloud-based integrated business suite for wholesale distribution.

Key Benefits

• Monitor and manage your business with the ultimate customizable business dashboard, featuring built-in best practices for wholesale distribution
• Convert leads to orders, orders to shipments and shipments to revenue with NetSuite’s advanced warehouse, inventory management and order fulfillment capabilities
• Gain a real-time, 360-degree view of your customers and provide better customer service through NetSuite’s seamless integration of CRM with financials and other back-office systems
• Grow revenues, enter new markets and improve channel partner engagement with tools for partner relationship management (PRM)
• Manage webstores and online business with NetSuite’s ecommerce solution, which is tightly integrated with your accounting, fulfillment, inventory, CRM, PRM and more.

The #1 Cloud-Based ERP/Financial Suite for
Manufacturing Companies

The NetSuite Manufacturing Edition is the only cloud-based integrated business suite for manufacturing.

Key Benefits

• Unite your manufacturing resource planning, inventory management, demand forecasting and shipping—as well as RMA for manufacturing—into a single web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution
• Convert leads to orders, orders to production and manufacturing production to revenue with advanced warehouse and inventory management and order fulfillment capabilities
• Gain a real-time, 360-degree view of your customers and deliver better customer service thanks to NetSuite’s seamless integration of CRM with complete financials and other back-office systems
• Expand revenues, enter new markets and improve channel partner engagement with tools for partner relationship management (PRM)
• Monitor and manage your business in real time with a customizable business dashboard, designed for manufacturing industry best practices.

The #1 Cloud-Based ERP/Financial Suite for Ecommerce Companies and E-tailers

NetSuite is the only seamless business management suite and ecommerce platform that empowers you to run your entire organization from the cloud.

Key Benefits

• Gain real-time visibility and business intelligence across your entire organization with customizable dashboards that enable you to make agile, profitability-based business decisions
• Design a fully featured, database-driven website that allows you to easily maintain content across multiple websites—and gives your customers an intuitive online shopping experience
• Boost conversion rates and increase revenue through targeted, personalized marketing campaigns, shopping cart abandonment marketing, automated cross-sell/up-sell recommendations, and more
• Improve customer satisfaction and retention with a real-time 360-degree view of your business that lets you address service issues more effectively, market with personalized content and pricing, and offer 24/7
customer self-service
• Conduct ecommerce around the globe with a best-of-breed cloud-based application that gives you the power to manage multi-language and multi-currency webstores—and the complexity of shipping overseas.

The #1 Cloud-Based Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Services Resource Planning Software (SRP)

As the #1 vendor of cloud-based solutions for professional services organizations, NetSuite’s PSA and SRP software solutions drive high performance in Professional Services Organizations, leading the PSA and SRP software markets for the last 3 years running.

NetSuite offers solutions and software for professional services organizations of all sizes and business needs—from 10 resources to 10,000. Because all NetSuite solutions are run in the Cloud, your professional services firm gets support for the way your services teams work today—on the road, between meetings and on-the-fly—with online, offline and mobile access.

What’s Your Business Driver?

Whether you’re looking to maximize resource utilization and skills tracking, want to move your financials to the Cloud or need a single solution to run your entire business from quote-to-cash, NetSuite has you covered with solutions to address virtually every aspect of your professional services business.

NetSuite for Consulting Firms – Increase Billable Hours and Profitability with Integrated ERP and Professional Services Automation (PSA)

As a consultant, you constantly face the challenge of optimizing the alignment of your staff while profitably delivering projects on time. On top of this, your practice has many non-billable administrative tasks like resource management, invoicing and business planning. While important, these tasks equate to lost revenue or foregone personal time. With NetSuite, you can minimize administrative tasks for your consulting firm while gaining valuable insights to improve realization rates, project profitability and client satisfaction.

Learn more about NetSuite ERP and NetSuite OpenAir, our professional services automation (PSA) solution. Or learn about a specific feature—Project Management, Resource Management, Time Tracking, Expense Tracking, Reporting/Dashboards and Invoicing.

Key Benefits

• Optimize staffing: With projects constantly in flux, allocating the best skilled resources to the right projects while minimizing bench time is critical. NetSuite’s resource management software lets you identify resources with needed skills (e.g. domain knowledge, language) and address potential bottlenecks before they become a problem. With complete visibility, you can accurately forecast staffing needs and increase utilization for your consulting firm while not burning out your most valuable people.
• Manage project profitability: Dashboards let you compare billed to budgeted time, monitor status in real time and proactively identify potential overruns. Benchmark a proposed project against a similar completed engagement to generate a reliable quote, and conduct “what-if” planning to optimize billing and margins. With NetSuite’s ERP system, project-based accounting is easy. Look across your consulting firm’s projects to identify engagements that are selling well or teams that have delivered a project type more profitably than others.
• Improve collaboration: NetSuite’s collaboration platform enables your consultants to capture and share important documents and intellectual property among team members, regardless of their location, so they can benefit from each other’s experiences. With the turnover many firms face, NetSuite also allows you to retain institutional knowledge and assure clients there won’t be disruptions.
• Automate time and expense tasks: NetSuite provides online, offline, and mobile access, so you can take a picture of a cab receipt and submit it before you even reach a client meeting. With automated approval rules specific to your business, you can ensure T&E reports are processed quickly, with only the amount of intervention you desire. With our easy capture and routing and ERP financial system integration, you can also ensure appropriate expenses hit client invoices quickly too.
• Implement quickly globally: With the ability to customize software to mirror the structure and processes of your consulting practice, with our cloud offering that eliminates the need to install and maintain software, you can implement state-of-the-art services resource planning (SRP) in about half the time as an on-premise solution. If your clients or consultants span the globe, NetSuite is available over 17 languages and downloads daily exchange rates to enable currency conversion. Compliance with country-specific taxes is also readily handled. And with our mobile functionality, anyone can access the system anywhere at any time.

NetSuite for IT Services Companies – Improve Performance with Cloud ERP and Professional Services Automation (PSA)

Do you wish you could reduce administrative time so that you and your staff could spend more time with clients? Is the increasingly global and competitive nature of the business raising the pressure you face to maintain billing rates without compromising utilization? In an increasingly competitive environment, NetSuite’s ERP and professional services automation (PSA) software can give you a real-time view into opportunities, resources and financials that will let you deliver service engagements that maximize profitability.

Learn about NetSuite ERP and about NetSuite OpenAir, our services automation module. project management module. Or learn about a specific feature—Project Management, Resource Management, Time Tracking, Expense Tracking, Reporting/Dashboards and Invoicing.

Key Benefits

• Improve resource utilization: NetSuite resource management software helps you identify and assign the best resources to the right projects. Need someone with a particular skill such as a database architect or Javascript developer or with experience in a specific industry? A quick search identifies these people and lets you staff them on the most critical projects, ensuring your clients are satisfied with high quality work delivered on-time.
• Develop client relationships: By sharing detailed project status reports, clients may have fewer questions for you or may remove potential roadblocks in their organizations to ensure the work of your IT services firm is a huge success. Have a price sensitive client? Selecting qualified resources with the lowest bill rate can be done in seconds. With automated workflow, reallocate time from administrative tasks to client-facing ones.
• Empower virtual teams: Team members can use NetSuite’s collaboration platform to share documents and get project updates, even if working in different locations and time zones. With full transparency, responsibilities can be decentralized and team members empowered. With our cloud solution, new team members can be up and running in a matter of minutes. Support for more than 15 languages enables you to easily outsource work to other countries.
• Generate higher project profitability: Develop more accurate quotes, mitigating the risk of cost or time overruns. Chances are good that you’ve done some of the work that a new prospect wants before. Rather than starting from scratch, start with a similar project as a foundation. With NetSuite’s ERP and project portfolio management solutions, you can review timelines, resource needs and profitability and identify areas for margin improvements as you generate a new bid. NetSuite’s powerful analytics enable you to apply your management expertise to your own business, finding new areas for growth.
• Get paid faster: Whether you have fixed fee or time- and material-based projects or a mix of the two, NetSuite lets you quickly generate an invoice based on time and expense and project completion rates already entered. The invoice can be customized, automatically routed for approval and emailed to the client from the system.

NetSuite for Advertising, Digital Marketing and Market Research Agencies

Maintain Your Creative Culture while Streamlining Agency Workflow and Project-based Accounting

Is your agency run on a hodgepodge of disparate management and billing systems? Is your compensation shifting from retainers and mark-ups to fee- and performance-based revenue? Do you need to streamline agency workflow and collect revenue faster to maximize agency profitability?

With NetSuite’s cloud solutions, your advertising, digital marketing, or market research agency can improve its profitability without project and financial management restricting creative juices. In fact, since many agency workflows are automated and information and insights more readily available, your team should have more time to spend delighting their accounts.

Learn more about NetSuite ERP and NetSuite OpenAir, our services automation module. Or learn about a specific feature—Project Management, Resource Management, Time Tracking, Expense Tracking, Reporting/Dashboards and Invoicing.

Key Benefits

• Improve your odds of winning profitable business: Imagine ready access not only to prospect contacts but also to similar reference clients. Combine that with past project documents as well as timelines, resources, costs and profitability of similar projects. With this integrated information provided by NetSuite ERP, business development teams and account managers can generate quotes with better profit margins and know when they have room to negotiate to win a deal.
• Easily manage traffic: For success, each project has its own mix of needs for agency account managers, creative, copywriters, artists, studio folks and more. Sometimes client or industry knowledge is critical. Other times, bill rates, skill levels or language are important to success. Timely availability is critical. With NetSuite resource management, you can identify available resources and particular skills, and staff your project fast.
• Build virtual teams: Whether filling in staff shortfalls with an employee from another office across the country or the globe or with a freelancer, with NetSuite’s cloud software, within minutes, you can quickly let them see the electronic job jacket. They can immediately collaborate with the account team as briefs, assets, work in progress—whatever the team is sharing—are available.
• Spend more time on client work and less on administration: Withonline, offline and mobile time and expense management, people can enter timesheets and expenses wherever and whenever they have a few minutes. With automated approval routing in our professional services automation (PSA) tool, managers can sign off in seconds. Automated reminders eliminate the need to hound people for timesheets. Plus, with vendor invoices in the ERP system with automated approval rules you set, the system can do the reminding—leaving your time for more enjoyable and valuable work.
• Increase profitability: Projects can be billed monthly or as milestones are reached lowering the time to invoice and improving your cash flow. Eliminating the need to rekey information, NetSuite increases billing and invoice accuracy and reduces the costs of these tasks. Plus, with better visibility into time spent at both the job and client level, you can make more strategic decisions about a client’s value. Looking across accounts may even help identify areas for incremental revenue.
• Get started quickly: No matter the size of your organization, you can leverage NetSuite’s experience with advertising, creative services, marketing and PR agencies as well as quickly customize a solution to match your needs. You can get started with our ERP and project management software (PSA) solutions in less than half the time of an on premise solution. As NetSuite is a cloud solution, your advertising agency will always have the latest enhancements without the cost of maintenance fees, hardware or IT resources.

The #1 Cloud-Based ERP/Financial Suite for Media and Publishing Companies

NetSuite is the only cloud-based integrated business suite for new media, publishing, advertising and creative services companies.

Key Benefits

• Run your media business more effectively with flexible and easy-to-use cloud business management for financials, sales, service and analytics
• Improve the performance of your media sales team by effectively tracking advertising sales opportunities throughout the lead process, and then forecasting advertising revenue
• Simplify and accelerate the insertion order process; speed lead-to-cash processes; and become easier to do business with
• Streamline billing processes with end-to-end process integration that removes redundancy, reduces errors and minimizes manual effort
• Grow your subscriber base with advanced renewal management, while a single view of each customer lets you provide enhanced service
• Track advertising performance from insertion order through to invoicing.

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