When childhood friends and transplanted New Yorkers Robert Hazan and Steven Marks found themselves in Australia in 2002, they craved their favorite fast casual cuisine - Mexican. When they couldn’t find a decent plate of Mexican food anywhere, they quickly discovered they’d hit upon a hole in the restaurant market.
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Wine connoisseurs are noted for their discriminating tastes. Many put a premium on the quality of the overall wine experience—and that includes online purchases of wine-related products. International Wine Accessories (IWA) is meeting customer demand for a rich and engagingecommerceexperience with a relaunch of its B2B and B2C website.
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Moving to cloud-based business systems is bringing tangible benefits to manufacturers by enabling significant improvements in key performance indicators (KPIs), a recent study has found.
SL Associates, a research firm,surveyed leading NetSuite customersincludingCMP Corporation,Shaw Industries Inc., Eemax, and Data Physics Corporation. Using the KPIs that manufacturers themselves considered most critical to their business, the survey quantified improvements achieve in a variety of areas, from financial management tomanufacturingefficiencies and IT costs, since moving to NetSuite.
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Successfully leveragingsearch engine optimization (SEO)to improveecommerceperformance takes more than just some upfront keyword research and architectural adjustments to a website, it demands ongoing monitoring and adjustments to ensure continued success.
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The role of the CFO has traditionally been a “head down, monitor the numbers” sort of role. I remember all too well in my early finance career being seen as a function that primarily existed to run reports and prepare PowerPoint presentations!
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Brand/Agency negotiations are at the front of the conversation. "Buyer beware" isn’t how corporate marketing managers have traditionally thought of their ad agencies. But marketers have been asking tough questions, especially amid talks of ad fraud and recent charges of pervasive agency kickbacks. They want tangible proof of their ads' impact and greater transparency into the process.
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Already a powerful presence in the retail world, cloud pioneer NetSuite on Tuesday upped the ante by introducing SuiteCommerce InStore, a new omnichannel point-of-sale solution that integrates the online and in-store customer experience.
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NetSuite founder and CTO Evan Goldberg took to the circular stage at SuiteWorld today to detail the company’s plans for data center expansion, new mobile capabilities, new procure-to-pay functionality and demo thenew SuiteCommerce InStore product.
The enhancements, Goldberg insisted, are responses to feature requests from users.
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Data visualization software provider Qlik detailed its deployment of NetSuite at the annual SuiteWorld conference and exhibition this week.
Qlik has replaced Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) with NetSuite OneWorld, a cloud-based business management software designed to serve the complex multinational needs of midmarket organizations with business functionality to adjust for currency, taxation and legal compliance differences.
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One of the themes established early and often at this year's SuiteWorld conference is "disruption." And make no mistake; disruption is everywhere one looks in business today, as companies grapple with disruptive business models, disruptive channels and disruptive technologies.
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For anyone who doubts the impact that cloud-based services resource planning (SRP) products can have on a professional services organization, Jeanne Urich, managing director of Service Performance Insight Research, offered some compelling evidence during her talk earlier this month at NetSuite's SuiteWorld conference in San Jose, Calif.
In particular, Urich cited a top UK consulting firm that, thanks to running NetSuite SRP, was able to grow from 300 consultants to about 700 without adding a single employee to its 65-person operations team.
Getting such elasticity from technology has become critical for a $4 trillion industry that, even though it's the fastest growing part of the U.S. economy, can no longer simply raise rates to boost profit margins.
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It's probably not a surprise that when Free Flow Wines went to look for an application that would enable it to track its signature wine kegs, it came up empty handed. In fact, Free Flow Wines couldn't find a decent product that could track any kind of returnable asset.
Not even NetSuite, which the Napa, Calif.-based company relies on to manage the delivery, returns, cleaning and reuse of its 85,000 kegs, had a module that could perform that task. And, as CEO Jordan Kivelstadt told a roomful of attendees at NetSuite's SuiteWorld conference in San Jose, Calif., "NetSuite wasn't building one any time soon."
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NetSuite customers will be able to get direct access to the intelligence from Dun & Bradstreet’s commercial database under a new partnership announced at SuiteWorld.
SuiteCloud: Inherent Flexibility
The flexibility of the NetSuite technology stack allowed NetSuite to open up new connection points to Dun & Bradstreet’s database through a SuiteApp, on the SuiteCloud Development platform.
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Cloud-based ERP has been around for more than a decade. In fact, NetSuite has a large roster of customers that have been leveraging the power of the cloud for 10 years or more.
Yet, many distributors are still relying on aged, on-premise systems. That’s understandable. Removing an existing system and installing new ERP can be expensive and disruptive. But there’s a catch. The cost of not doing anything can be far more expensive and the internal disruption caused by launching a new ERP project pales in comparison to the disruption already going on in the industry that companies running on cloud-based systems are having a hard time adjusting to.
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Of all the advice you receive about using SEO to improve your ecommerce website’s performance, the simplest and probably the most difficult to achieve is this – create compelling content.
With the Panda update, Google has altered the way it ranks pages. Long tail and broad keywords with plenty of inbound and outbound links will still help, but that’s not enough anymore. Google is now placing less value on links and more value on quality content. It’s why you’ve probably heard the often-repeated phrase, “content is king.”
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Every morning, Simon Talbot, managing director at P3 Medical Ltd., a Bristol, UK-based medical device manufacturer, looks at a NetSuite dashboard with real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) of the company’s manufacturing facility in Bristol measuring total output vs. input, the number of hours the facility is in production as well as a financial valuation of the work being done at the plant on a macro level.
Meanwhile, his colleague Ian McEvoy, a director at P3 Medical and the manufacturing counterpart to Talbot’s accounting role, has a similar dashboard, showing him facility production on a job-by-job level.
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Branden Jenkins, NetSuite’s General Manager of Global Retail recently had a chance to sit down with Debbie Hauss, Editor-in-Chief of Retail TouchPoints at our SuiteWorld conference.
During the interview, Branden discussed how retailers such as Billabong, Lovesac and Alton Lane are transforming their businesses by focusing on the customer journey and consolidating their multiple, disparate systems onto a single, unified commerce platform in the cloud to better serve their customers across all channels.
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There’s something special about manufacturers and distributors who sell food and beverages vs. those that produce other products. Not least of which is the fact that these products wind up inside the end customer.
That puts additional strain on food and beverage manufacturers and distributors to track and manage their processes spanning manufacturing, recipe management, packaging and the chain of custody. All of which come with a bevy of external standards they need to meet, such as the US Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
SAN MATEO, Calif.—June 1, 2015—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Liberty Bottleworks, manufacturer and distributor of the only American-made, 100 percent recycled metal bottle, has launched a new direct-to-consumer ecommerce website, libertybottles.com, on NetSuite SuiteCommerce after a rapid three-month implementation. The new website is the next evolution in its growth with NetSuite and enables Liberty Bottleworks to extend its unique and distinctive brand directly to consumers with an engaging shopping experience accessible from multiple devices. Liberty Bottleworks is leveraging SuiteCommerce’s flexibility and advanced functionality to run its entire business from one unified cloud commerce platform that manages everything from ecommerce, inventory management, order management, customer support and financials.
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SAN MATEO, Calif.—June 1, 2015—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Thos. Baker (www.thosbaker.com), an online and catalog retailer of premium outdoor furniture, has transformed its ecommerce website with NetSuite SuiteCommerce. This change is enabling Thos. Baker to deliver an immersive and visually rich interactive brand experience to its customers via any device while also helping to streamline the business operations of the company. Thos. Baker is relying on SuiteCommerce's flexibility and advanced functionality to run its entire business from one unified cloud commerce platform that manages everything from ecommerce, inventory management, order management, customer support and financials.
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MacLaren Turns to NetSuite SuiteCommerce to Run Global B2B and B2C Commerce
Baby Stroller Pioneer Launches Five Websites on SuiteCommerce in Just Four Months, Streamlining Business Operations and Demonstrating the Power and Agility of a Single Cloud Commerce Platform
SAN MATEO, Calif.—June 1, 2015—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Maclaren, a leading global manufacturer of baby strollers, furniture and accessories, has replaced multiple, disparate systems, including Demandware Commerce, with NetSuite SuiteCommerce to run its global B2C and B2B business from a single, unified commerce platform. Maclaren uses SuiteCommerce to power its B2B and B2C ecommerce, inventory management, order management, marketing, warehouse management, manufacturing, customer support and financials.
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SYDNEY—June 3, 2015—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERPand omnichannel commerce software suites, has announced the exclusive availability of donations of NetSuite's comprehensive suite of cloud business management applications, including ERP, CRM, ecommerce, professional services automation (PSA), NetSuite TribeHR for social human capital management (HCM) and the LightCMS content management platform, to Australian not-for-profits through Connecting Up Inc., an organisation that works to empower Australian not-for-profits through information products, resources and programs.
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Many clients are hesitant when considering a hosted or cloud-based CRM solution. Many negative thoughts may arise…the company data is not resident, what about internet speed/outages, etc. However, there are more reasons than not to have a SAAS (software as a service) solution.
First of all , your company data, when hosted by a reputable firm like NetSuite or Salesforce.com, is actually more secure, why? It is the core business of the software vendor to keep data secure and non-corrupt. They have redundant data centers and high availability hardware to ensure reliability and availability. Why, because there are economies of scale when you have tens of thousands of users.
Cost is a primary driver. Having a full time (large) in-house IT staff, especially for a mid-market firm, is very expensive in both administrative and hardware/software costs. Employing a Cloud solution is basically ‘outsourcing’ part or all of your IT staff, so that you can focus on your core business, which is most likely not IT. The average cost savings is usually over 40% per year.
Lastly, the usability of a cloud based solution ensures high acceptance rate of the solution. One of the risks of implementing a CRM system is non-acceptance. Many sales people would still like to keep their data on a piece of paper or in MS Excel. By providing a tool to track leads and forecasts in the cloud, the company can make the sales person more productive, and make the company more productive. Web-based interfaces allows apps that make the salesperson’s admin job more interesting and less time consuming…can you say “iPhone app” to look up leads and notes on a customer?
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