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Senior VP, Corporate Communications
Phone: 650.627.1063
E-mail: meili@netsuite.com
NetSuite, Inc.
NetLedger Enters UK Small/Mid-Tier
Business Market through Exclusive Partnership with New
BT-Backed Software Solutions Provider
Partnership with Open Orchard to Provide First and Only
Integrated On-line Business Application for Small and
Medium Enterprises in the UK
LONDON, October 31, 2002 - NetLedger, a leading provider
of application software, has joined forces with Open
Orchard, a new BT-backed UK software solutions provider
for small to mid-tier businesses, in an exclusive partnership
to bring NetLedger's widely-used online business management
services to the UK market.
These new services include NetSuite, an easy-to-use
business application which manages key business processes
including financials, customer relationship management,
purchasing and e-commerce. The partnership also brings
NetCRM to the UK market. NetCRM is a customer relationship
management (CRM) service, integrating complete sales
force automation, marketing management and customer
support functionality in a single on-line offering.
The new services will be available to UK businesses
from January 2003.
Today's announcement combines the distribution strength
of Open Orchard with NetLedger's award-winning applications
services. Open Orchard is a BT-backed venture chartered
to deliver business services and applications to small
and mid-sized companies. With more than 5700 customers,
NetLedger is the leading provider of on-line business
applications to small and medium enterprises. In addition
to NetSuite and NetCRM, NetLedger's products also include
the Oracle® Small Business Suite.
There are approximately 3.7M businesses in the UK1
and the majority of these still buy separate, expensive
software packages to run and manage their business.
Historically, the cost associated with running and integrating
data from these incompatible systems is high. Because
of this separacy, the software infrastructure utilized
by many companies does not allow business processes
to run seamlessly across front and back office functions.
To address this, Open Orchard and NetLedger have joined
forces to bring the NetCRM and NetSuite products to
the UK market. These products are aimed at giving businesses
a totally integrated set of processes that allows them
to focus on improving customer satisfaction, reaching
new markets, and improving business efficiency.
Zach Nelson, President of NetLedger, said: "We are
thrilled to have Open Orchard as our first partner outside
the United States. We share a common belief that the
best -of-breed business application to run small and
midsize companies is an integrated suite."
Yvonne Thomas, CEO of Open Orchard added; "NetLedger's
credentials in the US, coupled with their award-winning
suite of solutions, make them an ideal partner for us
to deliver on our proposition to supply mid-tier businesses
with big business advantage."
Today's announcement combines the distribution strength
of Open Orchard with NetLedger's award-winning applications
services. Open Orchard is a BT-backed venture chartered
to deliver business services and applications to small
and mid-sized companies. With more than 5700 customers,
NetLedger is the leading provider of on-line business
applications to small and medium enterprises. In addition
to NetSuite and NetCRM, NetLedger's products also include
the Oracle® Small Business Suite.
For more information about NetSuite please visit our
Web site at www.netsuite.com.
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