{"id":38459,"date":"2019-04-03T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=31f92bed809aed947f92dad39e7752b4"},"modified":"2019-04-03T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:23:08","slug":"stronger-together-oracle-and-netsuite-talk-up-successes-post-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/stronger-together-oracle-and-netsuite-talk-up-successes-post-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger together: Oracle and NetSuite talk up successes post-acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Maggie Holland<\/a><\/span>
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2 Apr, 2019<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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NetSuite used its annual user conference SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas this week to update customers and partners on its roadmap and detail some of the secrets behind its rapid growth and product innovation.<\/p>\n

One of the key ingredients to it\u2019s the successful execution of its expansion plans lies in its new parentage, according to Evan Goldberg, the NetSuite\u2019s founder and current executive vice president of development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more things change, the more things stay the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re being aggressive \u2013 not too aggressive \u2013 for our customers to take advantage of that. We\u2019re integrating with Oracle products and there are a couple of areas there where it is super helpful to be part of Oracle. The other giant synergy for us is the ability to expand so rapidly internationally. It\u2019s about making sure when we go into these markets we do it in a culturally appropriate way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s part of Oracle, it\u2019s also possible for resources, such as the sales force, to be diverted \u2013 both internationally and domestically \u2013 to help bolster rapid expansion plans, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Hurd added that some of the investments that have been made in the last year or so simply would not have been possible without Oracle’s investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hurd was also quick to pour cold water on suggestions around uncertainty relating to the structure of the company \u2013 previous Oracle acquisition targets have been absorbed into the business, whereas NetSuite remains a distinct operating business unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re aligned. There is no lack of alignment. There are things to do\u2026. Those are just natural migrations,\u201d Hurd said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s part of our strategy to give NetSuite all of the possible benefits of Oracle, but none of the downside of Oracle. Let it leverage the best of what it does and the best of Oracle so it can grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo also talked about how NetSuite is currently moving over to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) \u2013 a process that will take a few years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just a few weeks away from having our first customer live on OCI,\u201d Goldberg said, adding that he believes that will act as a proof point.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do all these transitions carefully to make sure they\u2019re not disruptive to customers. We have 16,000 customers. We can\u2019t hire a database administrator for everyone for them to tune. Autonomous will be a DBA for each of our customers and make sure it\u2019s tuned for their particular use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurd used the conference as a platform to reiterate how his own predictions around cloud \u2013 such as cloud apps having AI embedded in the next few years \u2013 and how market activity generally is moving in the same direction.<\/p>\n

Suggesting \u201cthe data is irrefutable\u201d Hurd cited the number of US datacentres closing in the past year and that almost half of development and testing is now carried out in the cloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not, in my opinion, a technology. Cloud is architecture, an approach. As an approach it is irrefutable. It has several key elements that are big deals. It costs less. It has tonnes more innovation associated with it without having to add it on to your IT budget nickel. It removes the risk,\u201d Hurd said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese drivers are the reason people are talking about cloud 10 years later. This is not a reversible trend. This is more about the speed at which you get to the destination.\u201d<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maggie Holland<\/p>\n

2 Apr, 2019 <\/p>\n

NetSuite used its annual user conference SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas this week to update customers and partners on its roadmap and detail some of the secrets behind its rapid growth and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38460,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions\/38460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}