Contact:
Mei Li
VP, Corporate Communications
NetSuite, Inc.
Phone: 650.627.1063
E-mail: meili@netsuite.com
NETSUITE 10.0 MAKES CRM FANTASIES
A REALITY
NetSuite Upsell Manager Automatically
Generates New Sales Opportunities Based on Order History
NetCommerce Analytics Tracks Prospect-by-Prospect
Web Behavioural Data
Hundreds of Features Extend Advanced
Capabilities to Companies Large and Small
LONDON—October 14, 2004—NetSuite, Inc.,
today announced NetSuite 10.0, delivering new capabilities
that have never before been available in a business
application—whether delivered as an Internet service
or an on-premise solution. NetSuite 10.0 builds on its
unique order management functionality by offering NetSuite
Upsell Manager, an intelligent agent that automatically
mines a customer's database of purchase transactions
to suggest cross-sell/upsell opportunities. NetCommerce
Analytics, also new in NetSuite 10.0, for the first
time allow sales and support professionals to see a
prospect's or customer's actual Web site activity, giving
them rich, instantaneous insight into their wants and
needs. NetSuite 10.0 also includes myriad new additions
to its industry-leading dashboards, making NetSuite
the easiest-to-use application suite available. These
major advances and hundreds of others that are included
in NetSuite 10.0 will make it easier than ever for customers
to know more about their prospects and as a result sell
more. For more information about NetSuite 10.0 please
go to www.netsuite.com/ukversion10.
"Amazing things happen when companies move from
fragmented silos of customer information to one system
that provides a single view of all customer interaction.
The One System architecture of NetSuite 10.0 enables
it to go beyond a 360-degree view of the customer to
actually anticipate customers' needs and desires,"
said Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite. "The more you
know about your customers, the better you are at selling
and servicing them. Knowing what they have bought—and
what other companies like them have bought—is
critical for cross-sell and upsell. Knowing what they
are doing on your Web site provides crucial intelligence
into their interests. NetSuite's unique order
management and ecommerce capabilities make possible
features about which customers have only been able to
dream."
For more than a decade, CRM vendors have promised a
"360? view of the customer"—allowing
visibility into every interaction from communications
to support calls to purchase history. In reality, stand-alone
CRM systems have failed in this goal largely because
they are designed to manage data related to internal
sales processes (such as generating a forecast ), while
the vast majority of actual customer data (such as customer
purchase history) resides in separate systems. In addition,
CRM systems treat a company's Web site and Web
store as afterthoughts, a major failing given customers'
desire to treat vendors' Web sites as the primary
point of interaction.
NetSuite solves these problems with its One System
architecture that allows CRM, ERP and ecommerce processes
all to be managed in a single database. NetSuite 10.0
extends this approach by adding hundreds of new capabilities,
including several ground-breaking "first and onlys:"
- NetSuite Upsell Manager:
Software That Asks "Would you like fries with
that shake?"
Order management is the key to providing a true 360-degree
view of the customer, and NetSuite has long been the
only system that natively tracks customer purchase
history. NetSuite Upsell Manager automatically suggests
products and services that a customer is likely to
purchase based on statistical intelligence gained
via analysis of aggregate customer purchase history
stored within NetSuite. In NetSuite 10.0, each customer
and opportunity record have a new tab which suggests
the products/services a sales rep should offer based
on this automated, actionable intelligence. In addition,
marketing personnel or individual reps can leverage
this intelligence to create cross-sell campaigns targeted
at customers identified by NetSuite Upsell Manger
as having a high likelihood to purchase products or
services.
- NetCommerce Analytics:
NetSuite's Big Brother is Always Watching.
With the growth in Internet usage, customers'
expectations have changed. They desire—and in
many cases assume—a company's Web site
will be the "system of record" when interacting
with a vendor. While CRM systems are not designed
to support ecommerce, NetSuite has led the industry
in making selling on the Web as easy as selling in
person. NetCommerce Analytics takes this capability
to the next level. Unlike generic Web reporting tools
which provide aggregate analysis on number of page
hits or most popular pages, NetCommerce Analytics
can provide such data on a customer-by-customer basis.
Even more powerful, NetCommerce Analytics also track
click-stream data on a user-by-user basis, so that
sales representatives can see the most recent activity
of a client or prospect on a Web site as easily as
they can log a phone call.
- NetSuite 10.0 Dashboards:
What You Track is What You Get.
While many companies now promote dashboards, they
are only as good as the data that underlies them.
As NetSuite tracks every interaction between a vendor
and their customers, NetSuite's patent-pending
dashboards deliver much richer information in real-time
than any system available. New in 10.0 are a variety
of new best practices, key performance indicators
and report snapshots (including such hard-to-get data
as keyword conversion to purchase); flexibility to
publish dashboards to specific users; and the ability
to deliver external Internet content directly to a
user's dashboard via RSS, a first in a business
application.
"One of the great benefits of having CRM integrated
from the front office, through the back office and online
with ecommerce, is that companies finally get a true
360° view of the customer," said Yankee Group
CRM Project Manager Sheryl Kingstone. "The real
goldmine here is the resulting intersection of technology
and data: actionable insight. Companies can take advantage
of this actionable customer intelligence to sell more—and
the customer actually gets more of what they truly want
and need. That's the win-win that CRM should be striving
to achieve."
"One of our favourite things about NetSuite is
that it creates comprehensive customer records for each
transaction," said Tim James-Parker, CEO of Justoffbase
(www.justoffbase.co.uk),
based in Suffolk, UK. "Our staff are alerted to
any customer issues immediately and then are able to
deal with them promptly. This has given us a competitive
edge, as has our ability to view customer order histories
and track orders online. Now with NetSuite 10.0 we'll
be able to offer more targeted promotions to our customers,
using the NetSuite cross-sell and upsell features, giving
our customers the feel of a more personal interaction."
Pricing and Availability
NetSuite 10.0 is available now and includes the NetSuite
Upsell Manager at no additional charge. NetCommerce
Analytics is sold as an add-on module, priced at €125/month.
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