NetSuite, Informatica ties up for cloud solution

MUMBAI, INDIA: NetSuite Inc., provider of cloud-based financials and ERP software suites, and Informatica, provider of data integration software, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver the first cloud computing-based solution for deploying two-tier ERP systems.

Combining Informatica’s enterprise data integration with NetSuite’s cloud ERP suites, global companies can extend and enhance their on-premise enterprise systems with cloud-based ERP solutions for their regional subsidiaries and divisions. With this new two-tier ERP offering, CIOs can lower IT costs, significantly reduce business system implementation times, and gain speed to market, said a press release.

Informatica Cloud seamlessly integrates data processed by NetSuite OneWorld at the division or department level with on-premise systems, such as SAP R/3 and Oracle Applications at the enterprise level.

This new solution is particularly suited for multinational companies with multiple subsidiaries operating across diverse markets, and offering products and services through many different channels.

with two-tier ERP, enterprises can set up new global divisions and subsidiaries quickly while still leveraging the existing investment in the company’s on-premise enterprise ERP solution. With a two-tier ERP infrastructure, the existing SAP or Oracle system serves as the hub at the enterprise level and is augmented with more flexible and cost effective cloud ERP solutions, such as NetSuite OneWorld, at the subsidiary or divisional level, the release added.

Using Informatica cloud data integration for two-tier ERP, enterprises benefit by accelerated consolidation, real-time visibility into subsidiary performance, local flexibility and control. And, as NetSuite can be deployed far more rapidly than conventional on-premise ERP, enterprises can standardize systems and process in weeks or months.

“Data Integration is increasingly critical to seamlessly augment existing on-premise systems with modern Cloud Computing services,” said Sohaib Abbasi, CEO, Informatica. “With two-tier ERP, enabled by Informatica data integration, enterprises get the best of both worlds, leveraging the scale of existing enterprise systems with the agility of cloud ERP for divisions to quickly pursue new market opportunities. Informatica Cloud enables data migration and data synchronization between the cloud and on-premise systems.''

Zach Nelson, CEO, NetSuite, said, "Our partnership combines two best-in-class solutions to bring cloud ERP to the enterprise. CIO’s in the world’s largest companies now have the tools they need to build an enterprise class hub and spoke strategy that enables them to dramatically reduce their IT costs by standardizing on cloud ERP."