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OpenAir Customer Comments on Joining with NetSuite
"The combination of NetSuite and OpenAir would be the holy grail of business systems for a services company. I have always said that it is a shame that a company as great as OpenAir did not offer a broader slice of business functionality to manage a services business. Now the combination of NetSuite and OpenAir can potentially replace my aging CRM and ERP systems with the same robust level of functionality I get with OpenAir." |
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| — Jeff Greenberg, Managing Director, Prevalent Networks |
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"The merger of OpenAir and NetSuite shows two of the early leaders in the
SaaS movement coming together in a way that benefits their customers, their
investors and the wider software community. It also demonstrates that the
SaaS revolution, once written off as a fad, is a force to be reckoned with." |
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| — Eric Berridge, Co-Founder, Bluewolf |
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| "NetSuite's acquisition of OpenAir will enable their mutual customers to
obtain a broader set of on-demand solutions from a single source and for
channel partners to offer a stronger set of integrated solutions." |
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| — Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and founder of the SaaS
Showplace |
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| "The economies of developing nations continue to shift toward service
economies and these firms need solutions that address their unique needs.
With today's announcement, the professional services automation (PSA) space
enters the ERP world, particularly the ERP SaaS (software as a service)
world, in a big way. This deal brings a strong East Coast presence to a West
Coast firm and presents significant cross-selling opportunities for the two
firms but, more importantly, this deal should deliver a far superior value
proposition to end-users than the non-integrated, costly to implement
service solutions on the market today. When you put a SaaS-based
front-office, back-office and service industry solution together, a new
economic model emerges that benefits both customers and NetSuite
shareholders." |
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| — Brian Sommer, Founder, TechVentive |
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Comments from OpenAir CEO Morris Panner
"OpenAir pioneered on-demand Service Automation software, and we have been dedicated to making our customers incredibly successful. Our combination with NetSuite now gives us the resources we need to execute on our full vision and our customers' expectations.
"We share with NetSuite a vision of revolutionizing how service and project-based companies can run their business. With the joint expertise and resources of our two companies, we are incredibly excited about what we will be able to achieve for our customers and the opportunity at hand." |
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Comments from NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson
"We are truly excited to work with the OpenAir team. It's clear that OpenAir has the best product in on-demand professional services automation, as evidenced by stellar customer satisfaction and widespread industry acclaim — including winning the 2008 CODiE Award for ‘Best Business Software Solution' from the Software and Information Industry Association. We are committed to preserve everything that customers love about OpenAir, and we plan to continue developing and extending the OpenAir product for at least ten years as a stand-alone product.
"In addition, by combining with OpenAir we will accelerate the development of breakthrough new solutions for services companies — particularly project-and time-based companies — providing a full end-to-end on-demand business suite. This is a huge opportunity, and there's no one better than OpenAir for NetSuite to work with on this exciting solution."
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