Top Ten Reasons to Choose NetSuite - Part I

Last week, we shared an article that outlined some great reasons to switch from one of the popular financial tracking systems used by small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) to NetSuite.  If you are still using QuickBooks and looking for something more, check out our article, Moving On: QuickBooks to NetSuite.  As you may know, NetSuite offers quite a bit more than just financials solutions.  If your organization is looking for a total business solution, NetSuite has got you covered there as well.  Today in part one of a two part series, we are going to share the first five of the top ten reasons switching to NetSuite is a wise move. 

1.  Better decisions with real-time metrics. Today’s business environment requires you to make tough business decisions with the best information available. Unfortunately, most executives can only see their business in the rear-view mirror, which makes it hard to course-correct accurately in real time. With NetSuite’s real-time dashboards, you get immediate, real-time insight into every aspect of your entire business — sales, marketing, fulfillment, operations, finance, and services — so you can see what’s working and what’s not. Immediately. Then you can act with maximum impact.

NetSuite is the first and only business application with built-in, customizable dashboard views baked in — they’re not add-ons that require a team of business analysts and specialized business-intelligence software. You simply turn on the metrics that you need to see. Point, click, results.

2.  Enterprise-class power in a single suite designed and priced for mid-sized organizations. With NetSuite, you get the power of an enterprise-class application without the overhead you don’t need. This full business suite gives you business-process functionality that’s typically only available to large companies willing to invest millions in applications like SAP or Oracle.

NetSuite’s SaaS architecture allows it to deliver all of this functionality while still meeting the budgets of SMBs. You’ll be able to automate business operations across all of your departments and roll up vital information in real time, so you can make the right decisions to drive top-line growth and cash flow.

3.  Grow your company, not your systems. According to industry analyst firms like Gartner, smartly run SMBs often grow faster than the industry average in tough times, simply by responding quickly to a changing environment. For that you need real-time metrics, the kind you can only get with NetSuite.

Because NetSuite is a SaaS solution, it lets you focus on your business, and not the infrastructure that runs it. We take care of the hardware, software, upgrades and security. And, as your business grows, NetSuite grows with you, without adding cost and complexity. NetSuite’s SaaS architecture ensures that you’ll never need to add hardware or perform additional integration in order to keep up with our latest upgrades. NetSuite lets you focus on the business decisions that grow your business, instead of the infrastructure that slows you down.

4.  You manage your business. Let us manage the software. In today’s economic climate, SaaS makes sense. NetSuite deploys quickly, you pay for only what you need, and there are no capital expenses. Plus, NetSuite never becomes shelfware, because you only pay for those who use it.

With NetSuite’s SaaS architecture, there’s no hardware to procure and no large, up-front license fees. This complete business suite replaces the need for multiple software products to run the various functions of your front and back office. All of which means growing and mid-sized enterprises can save hundreds of thousands of dollars by standardizing on NetSuite.

5.  Built-in integration that reduces costs and increases productivity. NetSuite unites fragmented data while automating processes from end to end. So you don’t incur the costs of consultants and middleware vendors to cobble together multiple systems. Within a single, powerful application, NetSuite combines CRM, accounting/ERP and e-commerce capabilities — and then rolls up the data from all of these applications into a clear and fast dashboard.

In contrast, with limited point solutions like salesforce.com, Intacct, and Microsoft Great Plains, you’ll spend significantly more on integration, maintenance, and training. You’ll need software and professional services to get the solutions to talk to each other, business intelligence software to show you what’s going on, and business analysts to help you figure out what it all means. With NetSuite, all that work is done for you.

Check back with us next week when we continue our list with five more reasons to make the move to NetSuite!