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• NetSuite rolls out commerce-as-a-service platform

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2012 02:35

  NetSuite is going up against vendors such as Demandware in the market for cloud-based e-commerce platforms, announcing a new product, SuiteCommerce, during the SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings provide some bright spots

  By Marc Ferranti | 28 April, 2012 02:16

  With Apple leading the revenue charge midweek and Amazon providing a kick to trading in tech shares Friday morning, bright spots appeared in what has otherwise been a mixed earnings season.

• NetSuite boosts global capabilities of its SaaS business software

  By Chris Kanaracus | 20 October, 2011 00:03

  NetSuite on Wednesday announced a series of enhancements and offerings meant to make its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software more desirable to larger companies, particularly those with international operations.

• FAQ: What to expect at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce

  By Chris Kanaracus | 31 August, 2011 01:44

  Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is known as a big thinker and talker, and now he's hoping to be one of Silicon Valley's biggest party hosts, with more than 42,000 people registered so far for the company's annual Dreamforce event this week in San Francisco.

• 10 questions for NetSuite CFO Ron Gill

  By Fred O'Connor | 30 August, 2011 01:01

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• Wall Street Beat: Debt, GDP weigh on tech shares

  By Marc Ferranti | 30 July, 2011 02:36

  Though faring better than businesses in other sectors, technology companies have not escaped the market storm stirred up by reports of tepid economic growth and political squabbling over the U.S. deficit.

• Platform, partners key to NetSuite's future

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 May, 2011 06:33

  Count NetSuite among the growing number of SaaS (software as a service) vendors positioning themselves as providers of not just stand-alone applications, but also a rich development stack that partners and customers can use to integrate with and extend the core software.

• NetSuite aims at enterprises with 'unlimited' push

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2011 14:20

  On-demand ERP software vendor NetSuite is expected to announce a new push into large enterprises on Tuesday during its SuiteWorld user conference in San Francisco.

• Microsoft's cloud ERP plans get mixed reactions

  By Chris Kanaracus | 13 April, 2011 04:33

  Microsoft's announcement this week that it would begin offering its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software via the Azure cloud platform drew significant interest from attendees of the Convergence conference in Atlanta, but some users and partners have questions Microsoft has yet to answer about its plans.

• NetSuite expands special reseller deal to UK

  By Chris Kanaracus | 29 March, 2011 01:52

  NetSuite hopes to entice U.K. VARs (value-added resellers) that may now be aligned with rivals like Microsoft into selling its cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, announcing Monday that it has expanded its SP100 sales program to the U.K.

• CFOs see tech, strategic hires key to business growth

  By Fred O'Connor | 26 March, 2011 07:43

  An improving economy should be spurring CFOs to hire workers to handle the increased business that their companies are experiencing lately. But a survey conducted in conjunction with the latest Robert Half Financial Hiring Index finds that finance executives are being extremely cautious about how they increase headcount.

• NetSuite, Informatica team up on two-tier ERP

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 March, 2011 19:09

  NetSuite and Informatica announced a partnership on Tuesday that seeks to exploit the concept of "two-tier ERP" (enterprise resource planning) deployments.

• NetSuite opens Melbourne office

  By ARN Staff | 25 February, 2011 16:41

  NetSuite is ramping up its Australian presence, and has opened an office in Melbourne.

• SAP's Business ByDesign gets software development kit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 February, 2011 16:05

  SAP on Monday announced the 2.6 release of its SaaS (software-as-a-service) suite Business ByDesign, which contains a highly anticipated SDK (software development kit) that partners will use to create extensions and add-ons.

• Wall Street Beat: Business software, e-commerce shine

  By Marc Ferranti | 05 February, 2011 08:47

  With most tech bellwethers having reported financial results, the earnings season is coming to a close, but BMC, NetSuite, AOL and IAC results this week offered insights into aspects of business IT and the Internet sector.