Preface

NetSuite was created in 1998 in Northern California from a desire to bring small-sized and medium-sized business transactions into the internet age. A few people who worked for Oracle at the time wanted to create a CRM and ERP product you could run in your web browser without ever having to install anything in your offices. They received seed money for this new company from Larry Ellison and Oracle and embarked upon their 20+ year journey to making the set of products we all can use today. I began working for NetSuite in 2012 as a technical consultant, delivering customizations and integrations for clients who were just about to go live on the platform. I've been working at that ever since, and one thing I've learned is that every business is unique and brings its own challenges when it comes to implementing NetSuite. At the same time, however, there are a lot of things that stay the same, at a conceptual level, in terms of introducing any business to the NetSuite line of products.

With this book, I hope to share what I've learned about helping clients use NetSuite. I'd like to think I can help make the process of getting a company up and running on NetSuite less painful and faster than it might otherwise be. I hope you find this useful and will engage with me and the rest of the NetSuite user community in online discussions regarding this topic.