NetSuite Developer Partners Leverage Power of NetSuite Business Operating System to Meet Needs of Manufacturers


LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Omnify Software, Configure One, SPS Commerce and SuiteCommerce Extend 
NetSuite Using NS-BOS to Provide Product Lifecycle Management, Configurators, 
EDI Gateway

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated
business management software suites for the mid-market enterprise and
divisions of large companies, today announced the latest product extensions
to NetSuite built by NetSuite developer partners using the NetSuite Business
Operating System (NS-BOS). These new ISV-built solutions are focused on
meeting the specific needs of manufacturing companies and the availability of
these solutions was timed to coincide with today's unveiling of NetSuite for
Manufacturers (please see separate product news announcement). The NetSuite
ISV partners include Omnify Software, Configure One, SuiteCommerce, and SPS
Commerce. For more information about NS-BOS, please visit
www.netsuite.com/NS-BOS.

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"These partners illustrate the power and flexibility of NetSuite's
platform," said Per Jacobsen, NetSuite's Vice President of Product
Management. "Whether building new vertical solutions, or extending,
customizing, and delivering specific industry processes, the NS-BOS
development platform enables our partners to focus their energy on building
their solutions and business, and not on delivery. This helps them to rapidly
expand into increasingly dynamic and vertical markets with best-of-breed
functionality."

In today's dynamic market, companies require solutions designed for their
specific business. At the same time, ISVs and developers are looking to
transition their applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to reduce
infrastructure costs and allow customers to take advantage of the numerous
benefits that SaaS applications offer. NS-BOS delivers the SaaS development
platform that addresses these two growing market trends. By building on and
extending the core of NetSuite, NS-BOS increases ISVs speed-to-market. This
is because every vertical application can interact with and leverage the core
ERP / CRM / Ecommerce functionality of NetSuite and related data managed by
the suite. This way, developers can focus on their vertical differentiation
rather than spending time on "horizontal" functionality such as quote or
order management.

Omnify Software, Configure One, SuiteCommerce, and SPS Commerce are a few
of the many NetSuite ISVs and VARs who are taking advantage of the power of
NS-BOS to offer industry-specific solutions that span a range of
applications-from product lifecycle management to configurator-based quoting
and sales. The following are highlights of their most recent NetSuite-based
solutions:

Omnify Software (www.omnifysoft.com) -- Delivers a business-ready Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that offers visibility into the entire
product development process by providing a single, secure location to manage
the product record including: component data, bill of material, engineering
change, documentation, project, quality/CAPA, training records, and
compliance information.

"Becoming a member of the NetSuite BOS Developer Program bolsters
Omnify's commitment to partnering with complementary technology vendors,"
said David Whitney, vice president of strategic sales for Omnify Software,
based in Andover, Mass. "Integration between Omnify and NetSuite benefits
manufacturing customers by automating the flow of product information between
Omnify and NetSuite to eliminate manual data entry, improve change management
processes and ensure that manufacturing always receives current and accurate
product data."

Configure One (www.configureone.com) -- Designed for manufacturing
companies who produce highly configurable or customized products, such as in
assemble-to-order or engineer-to-order environments. The solution prevents
the selection of incompatible options, enabling a guided-selling process with
images and help links while allowing the dynamic creation of bills of
material based on pre-defined rules.

"Our product and NetSuite complement each other very nicely, and we're
excited about becoming a NS-BOS Developer Partner," said Mike McDonnell, Vice
President of Product Development for Configure One, based in Oak Brook,
Illinois and Essex, England (UK). "Manufacturing companies such as Satcom
Resources can now create configurations and proposals within NetSuite using
our Concept Product Configurator and readily convert the proposals to a
NetSuite sales order once the business is won. In addition, Concept can also
automatically create new items and generate bills of material on-the-fly, all
within NetSuite."

SuiteCommerce (www.suitecommerce.com) -- Delivers an online product
configurator allowing manufacturers to let their customers self-service order
more complex products online. In addition, SuiteCommerce delivers a set of
NS-BOS based advanced Ecommerce capabilities, including product reviews and
integrated Google Analytics.

"By leveraging the NS-BOS platform, we've been able to rapidly build a
broad range of advanced ecommerce applications useful to manufacturers, who
increasingly require a direct web connection to their channels and
customers," said Diego Terra, CEO of SuiteCommerce, based in Miami, Fla.
"Relying upon NS-BOS allows our company to focus on building our business and
not delivery."

SPS Commerce (www.spscommerce.com) -- Offers market-leading B2B 
integration & EDI outsourcing services for seamless connections to supply 
chain trading partners. NetSuite solutions, including NetSuite for 
Manufacturers, are pre-wired for SPS' network of more than 1,200 trading 
partner relationships.  SPS integrates trading partner information with 
NetSuite's order management, fulfillment and promised delivery dates to the 
customer. These streamlined communications help manage manufacturing 
production flow, providing end-to-end visibility from raw material delivery 
to finished goods.

"Manufacturers are looking to streamline their systems while improving
their ability to support and sell products to their customers," said David
Novak, Executive Vice President of Business Development at SPS Commerce. "The
strategic partnership between NetSuite and SPS Commerce has delivered an
integrated on-demand solution that enables manufacturers to meet the complex
and growing requirements of trading partners using NetSuite. This one-system
approach, made possible with NS-BOS, helps make trading partner
communications more accurate, timely and automated."

NS-BOS Momentum

Since its launch in February 2008, NS-BOS has attracted more than 1,000
ISVs and developers, who have created over 60 applications, built on
NetSuite, across 15 vertical application areas. NetSuite Business Operating
System (NS-BOS) delivers a platform for customization and vertical
application creation that includes:

-- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Infrastructure -- Third parties 
       developing applications on NS-BOS will host those applications on 
       NetSuite's multi-tenant, on-demand architecture.
    -- Complete Suite -- By including the NetSuite application within the NS-
       BOS application development environment, developers can embed the 
       industry-leading ERP / CRM / Ecommerce suite within their 
       applications.
    -- SuiteFlex -- For development and customization specific to a single 
       customer or an entire industry using everything from point-and-click 
       tools to SuiteScript programming language -- based on industry 
       standard JavaScript -- for the development of new applications that 
       run within the NetSuite environment.
    -- SuiteScript D-Bug -- The first Platform-as-a-Service code debugger 
       enables real-time code validation and testing against the complete 
       NetSuite application, enabling faster iterative development.
    -- SuiteBundler -- Breakthrough technology which allows for the delivery 
       of ISV-built vertical solutions to SaaS customers in a packaged, 
       repeatable manner -- just select and inject -- eliminating time-
       consuming, error prone overhead costs of re-coding.

For more information about NetSuite Inc., please visit www.netsuite.com.

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NetSuite Inc.

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