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Customize – Extend – Develop
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SUITECLOUD®
PLATFORM OVERVIEW
Customize – Extend – Develop
Figure 1: High Level Extend, Connect & Build Your Own Apps & 260+ Certified Apps Developed
Integrate to Anything Processes on NetSuite by our Partner Network
Abstract of SuiteCloud
and its App Categories
Your Custom Built for
Netsuite Apps
Apps NetSuite Apps
SuiteCloud Platform
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Executive Why SuiteCloud What You Build
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What You Build Conclusion
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Chapter 1
WHY SUITECLOUD
Era of Incredible Change Driving the auditability and scalability problems abound
IT Agenda as other tech vendors work to sell cloud
Today’s businesses are increasingly reliant on point solutions into business units and the
ecosystems of productivity. Quick, responsive, IT organization.
pivoting, global new business models were
not the norm in yesterday’s ERP. In this period With SuiteCloud you get the best
of accelerating change, IT organizations and of both worlds—centralization
CIOs are suddenly entrepreneurs in an
in a suite for core business
environment driven by consumerization of
IT and expectations by business units for function, data and analytics to
incredible flexibility and performance. avoid unnecessary hairballs
Successful IT leaders are disrupting instead plus the most flexible system
of being disrupted—by bringing the system
of innovation together with the system of for customization, extension,
record; a reality made possible by the integration and development
SuiteCloud platform. in cloud ERP—making “smart
There is a dark side emerging within these integrations” easy and putting
IT projects with alarming rates of failure as the business processes that give
CIOs attempt to weave together a patchwork
of disparate (cloud) systems to deliver under you competitive advantage right
these incredible pressures. Unmanaged in your system of record.
integrations, fake cloud offerings, lack of
• Do-It-Yourself • Virtual Machines • O/S Stack Control • Multitenant architecture with unified metadata • Packaged apps
• Managed Storage • Middleware • Fully managed persistence layer with • Cloud-based multi-tenant
• Managed Network • Basic Runtime Stack SQL & NOSQL technology • Leverages cloud database
FEATURES
• Resource Provisioning • Increased Elasticity • Complete toolset to integrate, customize, from underlying platform
• Developer Controlled develop, test, optimize & deploy your vision
Coding Environments • Integrated mobile and social tools
• Database resources • Public and purpose-built private APIs
• Tools for Testing • SuiteApp ecosystem and marketplace
and Deployment • Secure, certified and audited infrastructure
• Ownership of • Capital expenditure • Rapid Apps • Instant apps by business people through to • Benefits depend on
BENEFITS
hardware and avoidance • High Developer Productivity complete vertical solutions. underlying technologies.
software • Utility/proportional • Outsourced Operations • Fast visual tools and industry standard IDE NetSuite ERP is fully
• Granular control pricing • Ecosystem of add-ons • Zero version lock & automatic updates customizable and extendable
over infrastructure • Shared physical and • Trusted by Enterprise • Happy developers with access to innovate with using SuiteCloud technologies
and network network layer security 360 degree customer, ERP & business data
• With on-premise • IaaS provides raw data • PaaS starts where IaaS • Coupling SuiteCloud with NetSuite allows users, • SaaS is oftne categorized by
SUMMARY
solutions the IT center capacity, delivering leaves off, adding analysts, developers, system integrators and pricing, licensing and delivery.
department must benefits by outsourcing Operations Systems, independent software vendors to benefit. It’s NetSuite is fully multi-tenant
build everything from server management. Middleware, and Runtime proven cloud infrastructure and tools for every and is licensed by subscription
scratch. It is costly, IaaS covers a fraction of environments user type enable rapid customization and app and is the #1 Cloud ERP.
time consuming and the burden carried by development to create value in the enterprise
often misses the mark. IT everyday. or across the ecosystem.
Data Center Performance Audits: represent both comfort for the boards and
SSAE 16 Type II, ISAE 3402 Type II, US-EU CIOs of our customers as well as a huge
Safe Harbor framework and PCI compliance. benefit for partners who use SuiteCloud to
Risk management process has been develop their own solutions to go after vertical
modelled after the National Institute of markets with buyers who are looking for
Standards and Technology’s (NIST) special assurance, compliance and reliability.
publication 800-30 and the ISO 27000
Scalability
series of standards.
SuiteCloud is highly performant too as we
Security Certifications: NetSuite/ constantly tune our multi-level caching,
SuiteCloud has passed a SSAE 16 Type II operate entirely on solid state disk drives
and ISAE 3402 Type II audits, is certified and use in-memory compute technology
for PCI-DSS, and is EU-US Safe Harbor for rapid processing and analysis of data.
certified. NetSuite has defined its Information We offer segmented tiers of service that
Security Management System in accordance can be tailored and even upgraded to serve
with NIST standards, including 800-53 and customer capacity. In aggregate our
ISO27000 series standards. customers add 9 TB of data to the system
every single day.
These performance, compliance and audit
levels are very expensive for individual
companies to gain and maintain. They
Figure 4: SuiteCloud
Third Party Audits and
Certification Detail
Data Throughput
• More than 5M items • More than 500K financial transactions per day
• More than 15M entities • More than 70K transactions per hour
• More than 600M transaction lines • More than $10B in revenue
LARGE
SuiteConnect
SuiteConnect (also known as SuiteAnalytics Connect) is what we call our cloud
data integration APIs. With SuiteConnect you can connect an outside BI tool or
application using ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET.
SuiteConnect
SuiteScript
SuiteScript is a modern, JavaScript-based development language with NetSuite
specific API extensions for the development of custom backend logic and user
interfaces. It encourages best practices, has an embedded IDE based on Eclipse
with a clean, cohesive, modularized API. The API supports modern JavaScript
functions including Promise & MapReduce, which help developers create pages
which contain asynchronous methods that behave like synchronous ones and SuiteScript
have the ability to drill down through very large datasets and perform bulk parallel
processing. In addition, the search API supports upcoming multi-level joins, the UI
APIs are rich and interactive and the upcoming SuiteQL for developers who prefer
to write direct query language in their development projects.
SuiteAnalytics
SuiteAnalytics is the embedded analytics engine, APIs, report builder, saved search
technology and dashboards that are all part of the SuiteCloud platform.
SuiteAnalytics
SuiteBuilder
SuiteBuilder is the collection of point-and-click customization tools that are
embedded directly into the NetSuite UI which allow Business Analysts, Admins
and Advanced users to easily create Apps on the fly. Access to these tools is SuiteBuilder
controlled by the NetSuite authentication and security system.
SuiteFlow
SuiteFlow is a visual workflow designer that allows for drag-and-drop processes
to be created by an advanced user to embed a proprietary business process into
the system or into a SuiteApp for distribution, it is a point-and-click development
tool. Access to SuiteFlow is controlled by the NetSuite authentication and security SuiteFlow
system and it can be extended further using SuiteScripts.
SuiteBundler
SuiteBundler is the application deployment technology employed by
SuiteCloud which allows an authorized user to select a group of customizations
and development into a bundle of functionality and create a SuiteApp for
implementation into another account. It has powerful tracking features that
maintain the connection to the source accounts for updates and also supports SuiteBundler
locking and hiding of proprietary intellectual property. Administrators can select
SuiteApps for installation within the accounts they are responsible for.
SuiteFlow
Graphical Process
Customization
Personalize Custom
Dashboard Searches
In the system integrator category, companies like Accenture, Capgemini and others use
SuiteCloud to implement services as software in practices like M&A and Divestiture and
even localizations.
In the solution provider category, companies like Tribridge and Hein & Associates add value
to a practice to serve unique market segments with people, process and SuiteApps.
Java NoSQL
2-Factor Auth
Intrusion Detection
Applications
Single Sign-On In-Memory Cache