Business Software

Cloud-based business software provider NetSuite has announced that its enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite will soon be available in the Google Apps Marketplace.

 

With NetSuite’s (News - Alert) cloud-based ERP suite, organizations can run their key back-office operations and financial business processes -- including accounting, inventory and supply chain, order management and business intelligence -- via a single cloud-based software platform.

“NetSuite is committed to bringing the power of cloud computing to businesses, so integrating with Google (News - Alert) Apps is a logical choice for us,' said Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, in a release. 'By adding NetSuite to the Google Apps Marketplace, we plan to make it extremely easy for Google Apps customers to get a powerful cloud computing ERP application that works seamlessly with their technology platforms.'

 

'We are very excited to soon be offering NetSuite in the Google Apps Marketplace,' adds Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise. 'Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like NetSuite are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated business apps that work seamlessly with Google Apps, allowing IT administrators to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and extend Google Apps to meet more of their business needs.'

Google announced its new App Marketplace which works on the desktop this past week. Developers can add their apps to the market and integrate them with Google's Apps utilizing XML and other open standards such as OpenID and OAuth.

Earlier today TMC CEO Rich Tehrani (News - Alert) blogged about the new App Marketplace and embedded a video that includes a discussion on how Intuit has integrated a payroll app into the Google family of solutions.

“What is interesting is how this app integrates with Google Calendar and moreover how various apps from different developers have a similar look and feel,” Tehrani wrote.

As Tehrani points out, the fee for developers is 20 percent of the sale price and a $100 one-time listing fee. Also, apps need approval as they do in the Apple (News - Alert) iTunes App Store.

“The threat here is obviously to Microsoft as hosted solutions are a lot cheaper to deploy than those which reside on local servers,” Tehrani wrote. “They also scale on-demand and local backups and disaster recovery are less of a worry. Moreover, Apple should feel threatened as this app store can easily have superior integration with Google Android (News - Alert)-based devices.”

“The walled-garden is typically considered a bad thing as it prevents true openness,” Tehrani continued. “But in Google's case their new ecosystem will allow cheaper solutions to hit the market. Moreover the data integration challenges plaguing customers and making integration houses rich will potentially evaporate in the future.”