Getting an accurate view of business data statistics is often challenging. Information is typically stored across multiple, disparate systems, and operating manual data management processes can be time-consuming and error prone. NetSuite cloud ERP addresses this challenge through SuiteAnalytics, which provides business intelligence reports for any applications built with SuiteCloud—eliminating the need for developers or IT teams to manage separate reporting tools or BI reports.
SuiteAnalytics integrates pre-built dashboards with powerful, customizable analytics capabilities. Best of all, SuiteAnalytics is currently included in all NetSuite software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings at no additional charge, delivering powerful business analysis that is easy for any executive, line-level manager, or individual user to leverage.
Key Benefits
Easily build key performance indicator (KPI) reports and actionable activity lists for your custom applications to maximize performance.
Embed real-time dashboards with your custom applications, helping end-users quickly identify key business issues and drill through to detailed records in just a few clicks.
Increase the value of your custom applications with built-in analytics, eliminating the complexities of working with separate reporting or data warehousing tools.
Gain real-time transparency into company performance, with a single version of information residing across all business functions—from summary level to transaction level—within NetSuite.
Enjoy a self-serve, personalized experience with easy-to-use reporting tools that don’t require programming or technical resources.
Access insights on the go via web browser and mobile devices.
Use personalized saved reports for easy, role-based access to critical information.
Key Features
SuiteAnalytics functionalities are divided into three broad categories: Personalized Real-Time Dashboards, Complete Self-Service Reporting, and Analytics on the Go.
Some of the key features of NetSuite SuiteAnalytics include:
An intuitive graphical toolset that enables end-users to self-serve real-time analytics across all areas—such as financials, orders, and custom objects—to quickly get the business answers they need.
Seamless connection of individual business intelligence tools to NetSuite, providing secure access (via industry-standard SSL) to your NetSuite database, including NetSuite crm system data, accounting, payroll, custom records, and more.
It also supports comprehensive access to NetSuite data by providing a solid foundation for querying and analyzing data using SQL, and formatting NetSuite data to meet exact requirements. This enables ad-hoc reporting and supports querying and linking from over 150 specific data views across finance, sales, service, and more.
Other standout capabilities include:
A powerful Performance Scorecard, which is highly configurable and allows Excel-like formulas to be embedded behind metrics for easy, at-a-glance analysis of key business indicators.
A built-in Financial Ratios Scorecard, which delivers real-time and historical operating ratios to help businesses effectively manage growth. This includes embedded metrics against core NetSuite data, offering insights into key business drivers such as Days Sales Outstanding, Asset Turnover, Profit Margin on Sales, and Debt to Equity ratios.
The ability to include formula-driven criteria in customized reports as an easy-to-use analysis tool, leveraging the same powerful operators used in Performance Scorecards.
Finally, search-based analytics can be automatically emailed to users on a scheduled basis for convenient desktop and mobile access.
In addition to these analytic capabilities, SuiteAnalytics also serves as the delivery platform for several of NetSuite’s existing BI capabilities:
NetSuite Dashboards with KPIs, trend graphs, graphical report snapshots, and KPI meters help drive individual productivity by providing every team member with the real-time intelligence they need for smarter, faster day-to-day decisions.
Reporting tools—including standard reports, custom-built reports, and point-and-click search-as-analysis tools—offer clear focus areas and tactical decision support on an as-needed basis. NetSuite’s wizard-driven, WYSIWYG graphical report builder makes it simple to create and manipulate reports tailored to exact business requirements.
For complex or industry-driven reporting needs, ODBC connectivity enables companies to link to third-party BI packages (such as Business Objects or Cognos). The NetSuite advantage here is that third-party tools pull data from a single data repository (NetSuite), whether it’s financials, inventory, or netsuite crm system data, resulting in more consolidated and accurate analytics. \
