I have experience with Oracle, SAP, QB, and some other custom ERPs as well as with NS as end user (processes, audit). NS is far more robust and user/implementor friendly, it makes sense unlike the list above. So yes, if Oracle stays away from NS, NS should continue being the best ERP system by far. Unless something else comes on the market. And yes, it is hard to beat a niche knowledge in NS. Knowing everything is impossible, it is so much better to stay the expert in two-three areas learning side steps along the way.

@Karina I agree with you 98%. Even Oracle has copied the NS structure for their Fusion platform. SAP S4/HANA supposedly have a cloud version but requires old desktop application to setup configurations and customization.

I can't say it's so one sided. Of the ERPs I've worked with - NS is what I want to be doing, but I have a bit of a love hate relationship with it.

@KevinJ of Kansas I also have same hate and love relationship with NS. But the flexibility and modularity trumps the hate part when I look at SAP, Oracle or Dynamics (GP). Dynamics' COA is awful, one of my semi-government client had over 20K GL accounts - no option to have parent child relationship.

my Oracle implementation colleague made a comment “wow, you can add departments at any point in time??? I am jealous! “. I was told that Oracle allowed adding departments only at the very initial step, and that was it. So for any growing business she learned to add three or four blank spots at that original one-and-done step.. Seriously???? Cannot add departments if you need????

In Oracle Fusion - you can do that. They basically ported EBS to web using NS schema

There are ways with dynamics GP to get more of that "virtual" segmentation we have, but yeah. I prefer our COA process to GP.

Thanks @Karina and to others who commented as well. This is very helpful as I think about my future career plans.

Suiteflow, custom records/fields and saved searches are huge time saver. My last Suiteworld presentation was about no-code development using those objects mentioned above.

Dynamics' COA is awful, one of my semi-government client had over 20K GL accounts

My record on GP was 67k. I worked with a casino client back when I worked on GP that insisted they actually needed all of them.

yep, those controllers that love controlling…. everything through COA, concept of items is a super high wall barrier 😞. they operate via journals, and that’s that. Telling them that high schooler can close month in NS with proper configuration leads to a mental institution trip LOL

When workflow came out I delayed PTO just to take the course offered by NetSuite. Fixed a long term problem in 2 hours after the course

My last Suiteworld session was on no-code low code development utilizing suiteflow, custom record, fields and saved searches. People use expensive Nintex to create automation workflow in SAP or Oracle EBS, where as in NS you have Suiteflow

@Sam-I-Am that sounds cool. Would you mind sending the links/documentation if that’s fine? Thanks.