NetSuite is acquiring OpenAir, a SaaS provider for project automation and management for $26 million in cash. OpenAirs provides web based project billing, timesheets, expense reporting and project management to organizations. Cloud computing business applications are a rapidly emerging market and the acquisition enables NetSuite to accelerate its vertical strategy. For those of you interested learning or sharing your thoughts and ideas about SaaS, you can do so in the SaaS group.
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Labels: netsuite oneworld, saas

Over at ZDNET Phil Waineright has a nice short review of NetSuite’s OneWorld System - a data integration and analysis tool for middle sized or even large enterprise deployments.
Waineright:

The new NetSuite OneWorld system gives managers much-needed instant visibility into the business …. aggregating real-time information all the way up themanagement chain so that the CEO can get a constantly updated real-time view ofhow the business is doing, and can instantly drill down to look at regions,countries or even individual sales orders. All of this is done with real-timecurrency conversion and role-based views, which More»

Labels: enterprise 2.0, netsuite oneworld