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NetSuite's Recent Introduction of 30+ Integrated Product Partners is Great News for the SaaS Universe

<p>Sorry about the basketball metaphor for those of you who could care less about roundball, but now that the Big Ten season is underway I thought I could slip one in (News: Michigan returns to the NCAA Tournament this year). At any rate, sometimes you have to take a flagrant foul for the home team, and though I won't do it often I will do it today.</p><p>Last week NetSuite, of which I am a channel partner, announced the <a href="http://www.netsuite.com/portal/partners/netflex/applications.shtml">integration of 30+ new products</a> with the NetSuite CRM, ERP and E-Commerce apps. All of the new products&nbsp;come in SaaS offerings, even better news.&nbsp;This is great news for NetSuite, obviously, the partner channel, the new product partners, but even more so for the entire Software as a Service universe. On demand computing is really starting to find its stride, and this will be a breakout year.</p><p>I looked over several of the new offerings over the weekend and it's a great and diverse group of software products. I am especially intrigued by <a title="cv" href="http://www.customervision.com/partner_netsuite.htm">CustomerVision,</a> described as a Business Wiki, for employee collaboration around the customer. I am really excited about this particular product because, as I have written <a href="http://sightlog.sightlinesconsulting.com/public/blog/102825">here</a>, <a href="http://sightlog.sightlinesconsulting.com/public/blog/102493">here</a> and <a title="past email" href="http://sightlog.sightlinesconsulting.com/public/item/105159">here</a>, email is finally just a blackhole of corporate knowledge assets and there has to be a better way to collaborate and reuse the assets that collaboration creates. I have a demo planned for later this week and in the space that we sell into this is going to be a very welcomed addition. </p><p>There is also a Professional Services Automation product called <a title="openair" href="http://www.openair.com/OpenAir_and_NetSuite.html">OpenAir</a>&nbsp;and a Point of Sale solution on the way called <a href="http://www.zeroedinsolutions.com">ZeroedIn Solutions</a> that are both going to meet with a lot of enthusiasm in the channel and among prospects.</p><p>Taking a slightly different tack, the 30+ new product partners is further evidence that NetSuite is crossing, or already has, <a title="Crossing the Chasm" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0066620023/104-1078557-6065553?v=glance&n=283155">crossed the Chasm</a>. As third parties begin the process of adding their products to NetSuite the market senses a greater level of stability. We are starting the quick ascent from the early adopters to the mainstream business buyer market. Hold on to your hats!</p><p>OK, enough of the flagrant enthusiasm for the home team already. As a NetSuite Implementation partner we are very excited by the prospects for the future and for on-demand SaaS altogether, and now I'll end this and return to my more objective self.</p> 9 application/xml false CRM crossing the chasm CustomerVision E-commerce ERP Integration NetSuite NetSuite implementation on-demand saas Here's a good synopsis of the new product integrations http://www.netsuite.com/portal/partners/netflex/applications.shtml Moving past email for collaboration http://www.customervision.com/partner_netsuite.htm Resoure management and billing for pro services http://www.openair.com/OpenAir_and_NetSuite.html Point of Sale http://www.zeroedinsolutions.com Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; YPC 3.0.1; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 68.79.122.138 68.79.122.138 tfoydel false true false false true 102363 blog blogsite/SightLines/web