SuiteCloud Connect Brings Together NetSuite and Salesforce.com Clouds


SAN MATEO, California, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- SuiteCloud Developer Network Applications from Boomi, Cast Iron, Celigo
and Pervasive Allow Salesforce Customers to Run Core Business Operations in
the Cloud

- SuiteCloud Connect Brings Together the Industry's Two Largest Business
Application Computing Clouds

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of on-demand business
management software suites for the mid-market enterprise and divisions of
large companies, today announced a series of partner applications that bring
together the industry's two largest business application computing clouds.
"SuiteCloud Connect for Salesforce.com" connects the NetSuite and
salesforce.com cloud platforms, enabling salesforce.com customers to
integrate their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) processes with the
industry's leading on-demand Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Ecommerce
functionality. With SuiteCloud Connect for salesforce.com, businesses can now
benefit from proven integration between salesforce.com and NetSuite, which
delivers an integrated lead-to-cash process, deep customer visibility for
sales, and the elimination of manual processes across business units. For
more information about SuiteCloud Connect for salesforce.com, please visit
www.netsuite.com/sfconnector

"Bringing together the two largest business application clouds is a smart
move by NetSuite and salesforce.com that should benefit customers and the
SaaS industry at large," said Michael Fauscette, Group VP, Software Business
Solutions at IDC. "SuiteCloud Connect for salesforce.com gives customers the
ability to integrate a leading SaaS CRM product and a leading on-demand
financial application in a way that encourages the use of robust, third-party
integration technologies. More of this kind of flexibility and openness is
needed to unlock the huge potential of cloud computing."

SuiteCloud Connect for salesforce.com empowers sales teams to manage
customer relationships with capabilities beyond the scope of traditional CRM
by making NetSuite's integrated ERP and Ecommerce capabilities-including
order management, fulfillment, and accounting-available within salesforce.com
CRM. The various integration solutions provided by SuiteCloud Connect also
synchronizes account information and product and pricing data between the two
applications, so that all departments can act upon accurate information the
moment it is available, ensuring timely and consistent operations. Stronger
visibility into back-office customer data enables sales teams to address
needs that go directly to improving customer satisfaction, including service
issues, billing, and order and shipping status.

SuiteCloud Connect Integration Partners

SuiteCloud Connect for salesforce.com includes a number of cloud-based
integration applications built for the latest versions of both NetSuite
(version 2009 Release 1) and salesforce.com (Spring 09). These applications
were built by independent software vendors (ISVs) who are also charter
members of NetSuite's SuiteCloud Developer Network, announced March 19. These
ISVs include Celigo, Boomi, Pervasive Software and Cast Iron Systems:

* Celigo: The Celigo Salesforce-NetSuite Connector provides a seamless,
real-time integration between NetSuite and salesforce.com, with unprecedented
levels of synchronization and visibility between the two systems. Ready for
use out of the box, the Connector can be installed in a matter of days and
customized to support virtually any business process. Available as an
Integration-as-a-Service, the solution is fully managed to ensure
uninterrupted service. The Connector is certified on the Force.com
AppExchange. http://www.celigo.com/salesforce-netsuite.html.

"Through our years of experience integrating SaaS applications, we have
found that customers generally prefer prebuilt, solution oriented
integrations that are immediately ready for use but flexible enough to work
the way their businesses run," said Jan Arendtsz, CEO of Celigo. "Our
Salesforce-NetSuite Connector is a complete solution, offered as a fully
managed Integration-as-a-Service, not just an integration tool or platform.
It has been meticulously designed and architected from the ground up by a
team with deep domain expertise in both of these applications as well as in
SaaS integration."

* Boomi, a market and technology leader for on-demand integration, offers
a pure SaaS integration platform called AtomSphere that includes connectors
for NetSuite and salesforce.com that have been certified on the Force.com
AppExchange. With AtomSphere users can build custom integrations with
drag-and-drop ease or take advantage of pre-built integrations which can be
deployed on demand. Just like NetSuite and salesforce.com, AtomSphere
delivers enterprise-grade functionality with all the cost savings and
benefits associated with a SaaS solution.
http://www.boomi.com/solutions/netsuite

"We've run NetSuite internally for years and recently purchased and
integrated salesforce.com using AtomSphere," said Todd Palmieri, Boomi CFO.
"It's a powerful combination to drive our business and having the right
integration is imperative to maximizing the value of our investments."

* Pervasive Software's multi-purpose data integration platform, Pervasive
Data Integrator, accelerates the sharing of information between multiple data
stores, SaaS and on-premise applications, including NetSuite and
salesforce.com. Pervasive integration allows customers to re-use the same
software for both real-time and large-volume batch integration challenges.
With more SaaS deployments than any other integration vendor, and thousands
of customers worldwide, Pervasive makes the case that Pervasive Data
Integrator and its cloud platform, Pervasive DataCloud, are the integration
solution of choice for systems integrators and IT organizations.
www.pervasivedataintegration.com

"Customers with SaaS applications like NetSuite and salesforce.com expect
robust functionality combined with ease of use, and that's why Pervasive is
excited to have created a true integration for NetSuite and salesforce.com,"
said Mike Hoskins, Pervasive CTO and general manager, Integration Products
for Pervasive. "Pervasive Data Integrator has the depth to meet these
advanced needs and in combination with our cloud-based platform, Pervasive
DataCloud, allows us to reach multiple endpoints and provide very complex
business logic that is hidden from the end user."

* Cast Iron Systems, the market leader in SaaS integration, offers a
pre-configured integration solution for NetSuite and salesforce.com,
including out-of-the-box connectors and predefined process templates for the
most common business scenarios. The Cast Iron solution provides NetSuite and
salesforce.com customers with the simplicity, speed, and flexibility they
need to automate their lead-to-cash process, and rapidly accelerate adoption
of this combined solution. www.castiron.com

"NetSuite's ERP suites offer the same simplicity and rapid deployment
benefits that salesforce.com's CRM users have enjoyed for years," said
Chandar Pattabhiram, Cast Iron's vice president of product marketing. "The
key to maximizing the value of this combined solution is to automate common
business processes and provide a common view of data. Our integration
solution for NetSuite and salesforce.com, which includes integration process
templates, helps companies be up-and-running in days and share data in
real-time between these market leading applications."

Hundreds of Customers Utilize Connected Clouds Today

NetSuite and salesforce.com already have many joint customers that are
realizing the benefits of an integrated cloud environment. Today, hundreds of
salesforce.com customers use NetSuite's integrated application suite to
provide core business process management services like order management,
financials and ecommerce, while NetSuite's OpenAir Professional Services
Automation (PSA) suite is the leading cloud-based professional services
application for salesforce.com customers.

OpenAir, Inc., a NetSuite Inc. company, recently announced a host of new
advances to its leading PSA software designed to ease integration with
salesforce.com and enable services companies to realize significant cost
savings and productivity gains. The company also announced a number of new
customer wins that clearly establish them as the leading salesforce.com
integrator with the most joint customers with salesforce.com in the
professional services automation industry. These new customers are now among
the many that have chosen OpenAir to reap the benefits of an integrated
system that brings together the capabilities of customer relationship
management (CRM) and PSA. For more information about the OpenAir Professional
Services Solution, please visit www.openair.com.

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

NOTE: NetSuite and the NetSuite logo are registered service-marks of
NetSuite Inc. OpenAir is a registered servicemark of OpenAir, Inc. All other
marks are the property of their respective owners.

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