Adopting NetSuite as your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can be a big step in your digital transformation journey. However, too often, businesses miss out on its full potential because of disconnected systems. 

To make NetSuite your single source of truth, you need it to reflect information from every department. Without proper integration, this critical data remains siloed, limiting NetSuite’s effectiveness. 

Unfortunately, integrating NetSuite with other applications can be challenging, especially as your business grows and evolves. Achieving true end-to-end integration requires a solution that simplifies the integration process. Celigo’s iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) is designed to do just that. 

With Celigo, you can connect all your systems with NetSuite, automate workflows, and ensure your team has access to real-time, holistic data. Learn how Celigo has helped over 5,000 NetSuite customers achieve these results in our on-demand webinar, “The Ins and Outs of Integrating NetSuite with the Celigo Platform.” 

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NetSuite integration options

Before you start integrating, it’s crucial to understand your options. Not all integration solutions are well-suited to integrate NetSuite. Some common approaches come with complexities and limitations that can slow down business processes and increase costs. 

Here’s a look at a few traditional options and their challenges:

• Direct integration: This approach involves coding with the various integration options NetSuite has available, such as SuiteScript, SuiteTalk, and RESTlets. It is best suited for simple, static processes or scenarios requiring deep customization. Since it requires skilled developers for both implementation and ongoing maintenance, it can be a time-consuming and potentially costly solution.
• Single-purpose point-to-point connectors: These connectors are prebuilt for common use cases, making them an ideal solution when a company’s processes align with widely used scenarios. With minimal customization required, they can also be a practical choice for teams with limited resources. However, they lack flexibility and can be difficult to scale and customize as business needs evolve.
• Integration platform: This solution provides a single platform for all automation use cases. It is a good option for companies anticipating growth, process updates, and the need for robust monitoring with guaranteed data delivery. That said, the level of maintenance required can vary depending on the chosen solution.

For businesses seeking a scalable, flexible, and easy-to-manage integration solution, Celigo’s modern iPaaS delivers the best of both worlds. It combines an intuitive and user-friendly platform with robust developer tools. This allows teams to integrate NetSuite quickly, efficiently, and at scale. 

Best practices for successful NetSuite integration

Celigo has successfully implemented hundreds of use cases for NetSuite customers, allowing them to automate critical processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and more. Regardless of the specific workflow, following a structured approach can help ensure successful integration. We recommend following these four steps:

1. Learn: Familiarize yourself with Celigo’s platform and document your current business practices.
2. Design: Create an integration spec that documents your business goals, flow requirements, and mapping.
3. Build and test: Develop your integrations using prebuilt flows and templates and test functionality.
4. Go-live: Activate flows connected to your production endpoints and monitor for ongoing issues and edge cases.

Integration shouldn’t stop at deployment. To ensure long-term success, continuously iterate and optimize your flows to keep pace with evolving business needs.

The Celigo advantage

Now that you understand the key steps for effective integration, let’s explore how Celigo helps you build your integrations. As NetSuite’s largest partner with over a decade of experience, Celigo empowers businesses to integrate systems at scale with a streamlined, efficient approach.

We provide several tools to help you achieve this, including:

• Integration apps: Prebuilt applications that cover common use cases right out of the box
• Integration templates: Fully customizable prebuilt flows
• A unified platform: A low-code platform with complete customizability within a unified interface

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By leveraging Celigo’s modern iPaaS, you can seamlessly integrate NetSuite with all your critical applications, ensuring real-time data flow, automated workflows, and a truly connected enterprise. With a scalable and flexible integration solution, you can unlock NetSuite’s full potential and drive efficiency across your organization. 

Take the next step toward automation and digital transformation. Watch the on-demand webinar today.