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NetSuite for Consultants

By : Peter Ries
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NetSuite for Consultants

By: Peter Ries

Overview of this book

NetSuite For Consultants takes a hands-on approach to help ERP and CRM consultants implement NetSuite quickly and efficiently, as well deepen their understanding of its implementation methodology. During the course of this book, you’ll get a clear picture of what NetSuite is, how it works, and how accounts, support, and updates work within its ecosystem. Understanding what a business needs is a critical first step toward completing any software product implementation, so you'll learn how to write business requirements by learning about the various departments, roles, and processes in the client's organization. Once you've developed a solid understanding of NetSuite and your client, you’ll be able to apply your knowledge to configure accounts and test everything with the users. You’ll also learn how to manage both functional and technical issues that arise post-implementation and handle them like a professional. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the necessary skills and knowledge to implement NetSuite for businesses and get things up and running in the shortest possible time.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: The NetSuite Ecosystem, including the Main Modules, Platform, and Related Features
5
Section 2: Understanding the Organization You Will Implement the Solution for
11
Section 3: Implementing an Organization in NetSuite
21
Section 4: Managing Gaps and Integrations
Appendix: My Answers to Self-Assessments

Creating exports with SuiteAnalytics Connect

When a client needs to access their NetSuite data from another system, we have a few natively supported options for making this happen. I will cover all of the integration options in Chapter 19, Managing Integrations, but when we're talking about more than a little data, and the client needs to access that data regularly, we usually steer them toward SuiteAnalytics Connect. This is NetSuite's built-in, easily enabled option that allows other applications to make industry-standard connections in NetSuite to pull data out of the system. This is a one-way street, if you will; we can't use this feature to make any updates in NetSuite.

Some people call this "ODBC" since that's the most commonly selected option for making the connection to NetSuite at a technical level, but the system offers a couple of other standard options as well – JDBC and ADO.NET. Users running software outside of NetSuite use one...