NetSuite Adds New Philippine VARs To Its Growing Solution Provider Program

SAN MATEO, Calif. and MAKATI CITY, Philippines, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that Asper Solutions and CloudQwest, two IT and business consultancies headquartered in greater Manila, have joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program to meet increasing demand for cloud solutions across the Philippines. These new partnerships add to an expanding network of value-added resellers (VARs) equipped to deliver NetSuite implementation and optimization for small, medium and large organizations in the Philippines. The partnerships with NetSuite enable Asper Solutions and CloudQwest to focus on helping organizations streamline their business processes with NetSuite's industry-leading cloud business management suite for financials / ERP, CRM, ecommerce and professional services automation (PSA).

"The movement to the cloud away from desktop applications, in-house servers and paper-based processes is rapidly accelerating across the Philippines," said James Dantow, NetSuite VP for Worldwide Support and General Manager for the Philippines. "Asper Solutions and CloudQwest are both ideally positioned to help organizations reap the rewards of cloud business management and improve their business agility and performance."

Cloud adoption is on the rise as Philippine businesses spanning a variety of industries, including in manufacturing, wholesale distribution, retail and ecommerce, food and hospitality and others, upgrade to the cloud from antiquated on-premise software and servers and paper-based processes. NetSuite's single, unified business management solution is helping a growing number of Philippine businesses accelerate business processes, improve internal productivity and gain real-time visibility into key business metrics. NetSuite customers also typically reduce operational and IT expenses while gaining the ability to rapidly expand into new markets and launch new business ventures. The NetSuite PH edition is localized for the accounting rules, usage conventions and regulatory requirements of the Philippine market, including comprehensive support for Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) tax reporting requirements.

Global business management capabilities enable Philippine businesses to manage their domestic and global businesses in the cloud, whether they are locally headquartered or are a division of a larger, multinational enterprise. For more information, please visit: http://www.netsuite.com/portal/landing/ph/main.shtml.

Launched in 2002, the NetSuite Solution Provider Program is the industry's first cloud channel partner program and brings industry leading margins and incentives to hundreds of channel partners. Designed to help solution providers transform their business model to fully capitalize on the revenue growth opportunity of the NetSuite cloud, the NetSuite Solution Provider Program delivers unprecedented services that begin during recruitment and range from business planning, sales, marketing and PS enablement, to training and education. For more information about the program, please visit www.netsuite.com/AsiaPartners.

CloudQwest Solutions (www.cloudqwest.net), headquartered in Makati City, offers IT consulting, staff augmentation, training and software integration services to leading Philippine companies. CloudQwest added NetSuite as the only cloud-based solution in its technology and consulting portfolio to meet the growing demand for cloud software solutions, as more Philippine organizations evaluate and adopt cloud business management technologies. With extensive experience helping customers with NetSuite scripting and customizations using the NetSuite SuiteCloud Development platform, CloudQwest has developed custom localized NetSuite ERP modules, including payroll and human resources information system (HRIS), that could be of value to organizations in virtually every industry in the Philippines. "Numerous Philippine organizations are evaluating cloud ERP as a cost-effective way of running mission-critical applications," said Gem Que Yabut, Managing Director at CloudQwest. "We are convinced of the power of NetSuite for Philippine organizations—it's very powerful, easy to customize and easy to deploy. We can focus on providing application solutions instead of hardware integration and support, which uses valuable time and resources."

Asper Solutions (www.aspersolutions.ph), based in Mandaluyong City, a solution provider with expertise in business process optimization and systems implementation, is expanding its practice to bring NetSuite's cloud business management solution to the retail, distribution and manufacturing industries, leveraging NetSuite product strengths and built-in capabilities for those three verticals. NetSuite can also be integrated to a hosted warehouse management system offered by Asper Solutions, helping companies improve their operational and logistics efficiency across the supply chain. Asper views NetSuite's key benefits as greater flexibility, lower upfront costs, scalability and ease of maintenance, upgrades and customizations. "Cloud ERP is the next big thing in business solutions," said Francis Guzman, Vice President at Asper Solutions. "With Philippine companies feeling the financial impact of on-premise solutions, customers are becoming more open to cloud ERP. Together with NetSuite, we are confident that Asper can be a beneficial partner to our customers in achieving their growth objectives."

Today, more than 20,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud ERP suites for divisions of large enterprises and mid-sized organisations seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP systems. NetSuite excels at streamlining business operations, as demonstrated by a recent Gartner study naming NetSuite as the fastest growing top 10 financial management systems vendor in the world. NetSuite continues its success in delivering the best cloud ERP/financial suites to businesses around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly while increasing productivity, as the global adoption of the cloud accelerates.

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