ClearERP, Cooper Software, and ProCons Launch Cloud Practices with NetSuite to Meet Growing Demand among EMEA Businesses for Cloud Solutions
NETSUITE SUITECONNECT, LONDON—11 November 2014—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that three new partners including ClearERP, Cooper Software, and ProCons, have joined its Solution Provider Program in EMEA amid fast-growing demand for cloud business management software in the region. The partnership with NetSuite allows Solution Providers to establish cloud practices with NetSuite's unified solution for ERP, CRM and ecommerce to help companies of all sizes streamline business processes, reduce costs and fuel growth. The new NetSuite partners are broadening their portfolios beyond supporting traditional on-premise ERP solutions from such vendors as SAP and Sage, as client organisations look to eliminate the inflexibility, on-going maintenance and high costs of in-house on-premise systems by turning to the cloud.
"NetSuite prides itself on working with partners to leverage their expertise and equip them with the knowledge and skills to thrive in a market that is eager for the flexibility that cloud business management offers," said John Campbell, EMEA Channel Director at NetSuite. "The benefit of joining NetSuite's partner program is that we are focused on providing resources to drive growth for both NetSuite and our partners in a very competitive revenue share model."
Launched in 2002, the NetSuite Solution Provider Program is the industry's leading cloud channel partner program, providing hundreds of channel partners with a cloud solution to offer prospective customers and grow their businesses. The program also offers partners industry-leading margins and innovative incentive programs, like the NetSuite SP100, which pays partners 100 percent of first-year NetSuite sales revenues. With cloud computing at the forefront of the hottest trends and cloud ERP leading the way, channel partners representing on-premise products like Microsoft Dynamics GP and SAP continue to build new practices based on NetSuite's superior cloud business management suite. Designed to help solution providers transform their business model to fully capitalise on the revenue growth opportunity of the NetSuite cloud, the NetSuite Solution Provider Program delivers unprecedented benefits that begin during partner recruitment and range from business planning, sales, marketing and professional services enablement to training and education. For more information about the NetSuite Solution Provider Program, please visit http://www.netsuite.com.sg/partners.
The latest partners to join the NetSuite Solution Provider Program in EMEA include:
ClearERP Builds Practice Exclusively Offering NetSuite's Cloud-based Suite
ClearERP (www.clearerp.co.uk), a solution provider based in Surrey, UK, was founded in 2014 to focus solely on NetSuite by a leadership team with more than 20 years experience in the ERP market. Its founder, Julian Griffiths, ClearERP Managing Director, has worked with such solutions as Sage Accpac (Sage 300 ERP), SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and others since the 1990s. ClearERP selected NetSuite as its partner because of NetSuite's leadership in the cloud ERP market. With clients including Edward Ray International, LBS Serving Biotechnology, and Genero Productions, ClearERP offers implementation and optimisation of NetSuite cloud ERP, CRM, ecommerce and PSA solutions for SME companies in a range of industries. According to ClearERP's Griffiths, the NetSuite Solution Provider Program has supplied his company with an impressive set of sales enablement and training resources to help ClearERP quickly ramp up and capitalise on opportunities. "There's huge demand for cloud solutions in the SME market, and NetSuite offers everything an SME could want," Griffiths said. "Our focus is very much on partnering with small and mid-market companies and using our technology experience and the power of NetSuite to help them grow. We understand the pains they're going through and what they're trying to achieve."
Cooper Software Build Cloud Practice with NetSuite to Drive Business Growth
Cooper Software (www.coopersoftware.co.uk), an Edinburgh-based systems integrator with offices in Manchester and Stockholm, Sweden, is opening its first cloud software practice as a NetSuite partner. Europe's largest independent provider of products and consulting services for IFS and QlikView applications, Cooper Software, founded in 2005, has also deployed NetSuite ERP, CRM and PSA to run its own business, replacing Salesforce, Xero and Ace Projects. The NetSuite partnership is central to Cooper Software's plans to continue to grow their practice over the next three years with implementations in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, food and beverage, media and other industries. Cooper is also joining the NetSuite SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) program to offer its custom-built data capture applications as "Built for NetSuite" SuiteApps, and plans to offer NetSuite as an outsourced managed service. "We see it as a very big opportunity to be a part of NetSuite's growing presence in EMEA and the growing adoption of cloud and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions," said Frank Cooper, Managing Director at Cooper Software. "Using NetSuite ourselves will mean that we're able to work more efficiently and successfully deliver more projects for customers faster, without the immediate need to add headcount. NetSuite was built from the ground up in the cloud and it is a reliable and well-proven SaaS solution."
ProCons Adds NetSuite Cloud to Portfolio to Meet Demand for Cloud Solutions in the Middle East
ProCons (www.procons-4it.com), headquartered in Dubai with offices in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar and Kuwait, partnered with NetSuite as interest in cloud solutions grows in the Middle East/North Africa region, with adoption expected to soar over the next few years. ProCons will add NetSuite to its traditional focus on SAP Business One, with the consultancy accredited as an SAP Gold Partner and Master VAR and ranked among the Top 10 global SAP partners in the small and midsize business market. Founded in 2005, ProCons has grown from a handful of individuals to 85 employees, with more than 170 customers across 10 countries. With SAP's Business ByDesign cloud offering not considered fully mature, ProCons sees a large opportunity to grow its business with a NetSuite practice in such industries as construction, wholesale distribution, retail, manufacturing, ecommerce and services. "We did our research and we believe that cloud business in the Middle East will boom in the next two to three years," said Wassim Hassanieh, Managing Partner at ProCons. "NetSuite is clearly the leader in the cloud ERP market. We are confident that NetSuite is the cloud ERP solution of the future and will help us deliver true value to our customers."
Today, more than 20,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud financials/ERP suites for divisions of large enterprises and mid-sized organisations seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP systems. NetSuite excels at streamlining business operations as demonstrated in a recent Gartner study naming NetSuite as the fastest growing financial management software vendor on a global basis. NetSuite continues its success in delivering the best cloud ERP/financials suites to businesses around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly while increasing productivity, as the global adoption of the cloud is accelerating.
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