Companies Automate Financial Operations, Ecommerce, Sales and Customer
Service at Lower Cost and Pain
SAN MATEO, Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc., a vendor of
on-demand, integrated business management application suites that provide
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
and e-commerce functionality for small and medium-sized businesses and
divisions of large companies, today announced that more midsized companies
continue to migrate to NetSuite from Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly named
and commonly referred to as Great Plains) solution. Companies that recently
switched from Great Plains to NetSuite span a spectrum of industries
including manufacturing, wholesale/distribution, and computer software.
Among the companies making the move from Great Plains to NetSuite are
Marshall Industries, PeopleNet, TTI, Inc., Mountz, Inc. and H.T. Maddocks,
Ltd. These companies stated that they switched for a variety of reasons
including ease of use; reduced cost due to NetSuite's software on-demand
delivery model; and NetSuite's one-system, financial management approach
which integrates ERP, CRM, and e-commerce. For more information, please
visit http://www.netsuite.com/greatplainsswitch
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The software applications utilized by most midsized companies do not
allow business data to move easily across departments. Most mid-size
companies manage their business on separate, unintegrated software
packages-one for accounting, one for warehousing, one for sales force
management and one for customer support-and then spend even more money to
tie them together. The cost of implementation, integration and on-going
application maintenance in such environments can be many times the cost of
the software itself.
NetSuite is designed to help solve these complex challenges. Because
NetSuite ties ERP, CRM and e-commerce together in a single, hosted
application, midsized businesses don't waste time and money integrating
disparate applications. NetSuite is also delivered as an on-demand
Web-based service, eliminating on-going costs for maintaining and upgrading
the application. NetSuite's integration, advanced functionality, relative
ease-of-use and Web-based delivery are some of the key reasons mid-sized
companies choose NetSuite over applications like Microsoft Great Plains.
Marshall Industries, Inc. (http://www.marshallind.com), Salt Lake City
Installation of communications equipment for hospitals, schools and
churches
"NetSuite is more powerful, customizable and flexible than Great Plains
-- that's why we made the switch," said Steve Shelton at Marshall
Industries. "In our business, our parts on sales orders are released in
phases, and we had a hard time doing this ourselves in Great Plains.
NetSuite is more flexible in allowing us to release parts in phases as the
project goes along. Also, with NetSuite, it's easier to build reports and
make changes to information globally. And with NetSuite we were trained on
customizing the software ourselves so we don't have to spend all that money
with an outside consultant like we did with Great Plains."
PeopleNet (http://www.peoplenetonline.com), Chaska, Minn.
Mobile communications and fleet management solutions
"Our first inclination was just to replace our CRM, but when we
discovered NetSuite's ERP capabilities as well, including usage-based
billing, we saw that we could go to one provider with a pre-integrated
solution for all these functionalities," said Ron Konezny, CEO of
PeopleNet. "We have saved time and money by replacing Great Plains, Onyx,
and Crystal Reports with NetSuite, giving us one centralized view of our
business."
TTI, Inc. (http://www.ttiglobal.com), Williston, Vt.
Wholesale/Distributor of industrial instruments
"To keep using Great Plains we would have had to upgrade our version of
SQL Server, our SQL Server hardware and our version of Great Plains," said
Brian Leffler, Vice President, TTI, Inc. "This turned out to be so
expensive that we took the opportunity to look at other software systems to
run our company. NetSuite is a better fit for our business than Great
Plains. Our workforce at TTI has taken to NetSuite very well and I surely
do not miss those servers!"
Mountz, Inc. (http://www.mountztorque.com), San Jose, Calif.
Manufacturing and servicing of high quality torque tools
"We switched from Great Plains for a couple reasons: first, we wanted
to avoid the IT costs associated with keeping Great Plains functioning; and
second, NetSuite was able to maintain our data and allow us to leverage our
information across all our departments, without multiple entries, which is
important to maintain efficient operations as we grow our business," said
Gregg Johnson, CFO, Mountz, Inc.
H.T. Maddocks Ltd. (http://www.europart.co.uk), Abercynon, Wales;
Dorset, England (UK)
Supplier of domestic appliance white goods and spare parts since the
1970s
"For a number of years we used Great Plains for our enterprise system
and another product for our Web store database - but we had no interface
between the two and had to re-key information," said Eddie Hutchinson,
Financial Director, H.T. Maddocks Ltd. "Plus our CRM system seemed
virtually non- existent. Now with NetSuite we have a better system without
spending more money, and this system touches every part of the business."
For more information on NetSuite, visit http://www.netsuite.com
NOTE: NetSuite and the NetSuite logo are service-marks of NetSuite,
Inc. Other marks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE NetSuite, Inc.
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CONTACT:
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