There are thousands of differences between NetSuite and other ERP solutions. With NetSuite, anytime you see a page of data, you can export it to Excel. Not only can you export it to Excel, but what comes across are the values and the formulas. If you have a column that's adding up for example, what you sold the product for minus the cost of goods sold, this equals your net value. What you get in the spreadsheet is that same formula referring to those same figures right there and it's a huge time saver for people.

Now, traditional ERP has gotten better at some of their tables; you're now able to export to Excel with some of them. But when you come across it, it's just a flat value and things like that. These accountants that work in spreadsheets all day long love this. You can change your spreadsheet and you can create it so it uploads into NetSuite and you can have a spreadsheet-type system that feeds in and puts data into your system, as well as taking it out. That's a huge difference.

There are things like being able to create very simple screens, being able to have a customer. We're sharing a warehouse with one of our providers or we've got a product at a co-packer or someplace where we're taking our product for labeling and putting it in cases — we put them on the NetSuite system. They only see the things that they need to see. But now I know when my partner is running out of labels to put on my bottles and I can put that information into my MRP and I can have a purchase order and drop-ship to them in time for them to have labels for the next manufacturing run.

All of these things tie in together in customer portals. It's great to be able to call a company and try to get somebody on the phone, but if I can look up which invoices I've paid for and understand which ones they've applied it to and everything like that, I'm so much closer to the answer than if I am trying to get somebody on the phone. That's just another way customer service improves everything — when I can give you a portal of exactly what's going on between the two of us.

Those are the kinds of things that really seem to help. Most companies have never had that capability. They've never used it, they don't understand that this is great. Instead of having 50 people call me on the phone today, now I've got three phone calls. How much more work am I going to get done all day? My customers are much happier now. They like working with me because they can find this out rather than buying that from somebody else. Again, I'm sticking with these guys. They're so easy to use.

We previously used SAP's ERP solution. SAP provides more functionality, but it's not as user-friendly. It's a more complex environment.

I've worked on Oracle EBS and Oracle IFS apart from NetSuite ERP, and the solution being used depends on the organization. The organization currently using NetSuite ERP isn't that big, so it couldn't afford Oracle EBS, which is slightly expensive compared to NetSuite ERP.

That organization also found NetSuite ERP user-friendly as a cloud solution, plus Oracle takes care of the server maintenance and other updates, so the solution is less of a headache.

We switched from Visma to NetSuite due to poor vendor communication, the on-premises nature of Visma requiring server management, and limitations in reporting and integrations. Our main requirement for the new solution was a SaaS platform to alleviate server maintenance pressure. We aimed for improved communication, a responsive vendor, and reliable technical support.

We chose this solution as it's SaaS-based, so there was no headache on the infrastructure, support, or maintenance side. That is been taken care of by the Oracle vendor itself. Secondly, it's very robust and fully customizable. We can customize it as per our needs. That was the one consideration. There is already a process set up for multiple currencies, and locations. They provide leading practices - all the standard practices with respect to the business, whether it's a B2B, or order to cash, everything is available. It's not taking up a lot of time for the initial setup. There are no extensive configurations or implementation work involved.

We made the switch from on premise applications to cloud-based NetSuite.

While we looked at other solutions, we didn't deploy any others with this particular client.

Yes. I previously was a consultant for Aderant and was happy to make the switch because NetSuite is a larger company with more resources and has the ability to offer a superior product to small, on-premise model ERP companies.

I have experience working with SAP. When compared with NetSuite, the latter is bit easier to configure for the features which are not present out-of-the-box.

I was using a customized educational ERP tool and wanted to work on a cloud ERP solution.

I used to implement Sage Line 500/1000.

I have previously used Microsoft Dynamics. it has some better features than NetSuite ERP.

I am not aware of any previous solution.

We were previously using QuickBooks. Since it was not scalable for multiple subsidiaries, we switched to NetSuite.

Oracle NetSuite is the best cloud-based solution.

We were using Openbravo ERP.