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NetSuite Brings ERP, CRM to NC State Grad Program
TMCnet Contributing Editor
NetSuite, Inc., has announced that North Carolina State University's College of Management has incorporated NetSuite Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) into its Master of Accounting (MAC) and MBA curricula.
The college's Enterprise Resource Planning course is equipping MBA and MAC students with the knowledge and skills needed to manage the entire business process, and "working with NetSuite's one integrated system, students learn the entire end-to-end cycle of a business, such as purchase to pay or order to cash -- not only the financials," according to NetSuite officials.
"I have been teaching ERP classes at the graduate level for five years using various software packages including the traditional ERP systems, but they were not user-friendly; I spent most of my time managing the software versus teaching my students," said Marianne Bradford, Associate Professor of Accounting.
Yeah, so when is NetSuite going to do something about N.C. State's incredibly stupid decision to fire Herb Sendek as the basketball coach? That program was in the flusher when Sendek came, he did a better job than anybody expected and remained a gentleman, ran a clean program and made the Big Dance. Okay, he couldn't beat Carolina or Duke every time out, but who does?
But hey, all of us U.Va. fans are happy about it, we're tired of losing to State.
Last month NetSuite announced that Business Solutions from The Carphone Warehouse, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Carphone Warehouse Group, has selected NetSuite CRM+ for its sales force automation (SFA), marketing automation, and customer support.
Business Solutions from The Carphone Warehouse has licensed 400 user seats and will implement NetSuite in three phases starting with SFA for prospecting, opportunity management and booking orders; marketing automation for executing targeted campaigns; and customer support and service for all business users of Business Solutions from The Carphone Warehouse.
Recently NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson slammed SAP's (News - Alert) acquisition of Praxis as "an attempt to try to match NetSuite's Ecommerce capabilities."
Focusing specifically on small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), SAP AG has announced that it will introduce new e-commerce and Web-based capabilities to SAP Business One.
The new functions will enable companies to "set up online stores easily and to deploy customer relationship management (CRM) software quickly and simply via the Internet," according to SAP officials.
SAP is acquiring the new e-commerce and CRM capabilities through its acquisition of Praxis Software Solutions, a privately-held software company and long-term SAP Business One partner based in Minneapolis. The purchase gives SAP the acquired technology and Praxis employees to throw at the SAP Business One operations.
While the acquisition by SAP of Praxis "validates NetSuite's incorporation of e-commerce as a core element of business application suites for SMEs, it misses the mark," Nelson says.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims’ columnist page.
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