SuiteWorld – an event over a decade in the making

I am fortunate to be invited to a wide range of industry events. But as in farming, have found “crop rotation” is important. This week I went to Lotusphere – I was last there almost 20 years ago while at PriceWaterhouse which was an early adopter of Lotus Notes. In the last couple of years I have been to FASTforward (Analytics), HIMSS (healthcare), Voicecon (Unified Communications), WES (Blackberry and mobile apps), CFO Technology Summit,  HR Tech, Cognizant Community among others.  That gives me fodder for the wide range of topics my New Florence innovation blog covers.

One new event I am looking forward to this year is SuiteWorld.  It is NetSuite’s first global customer event. You have to admire their discipline – many vendors have one even before their first year in business. NetSuite has been in business 13 years. With everyone starting to hype cloud computing it will be good to hear from pioneering executives like Evan Goldberg and Zach Nelson. They have forgotten many of the things most other vendor executives are just starting to learn.

And talk to some customers on what they have been able to do with the savings from not being on an on-premise infrastructure for years now. I am also looking forward to meeting some of their partners. NetSuite is pioneering relationships with a new set of partners like Baker Tilly. The systems integrator/outsourcing market is ready for its own version of fresh blood.