Introduction

In Many Instances QuickBooks is Inadequate

Because of QuickBooks’ limitations, companies are often forced to grow by adding more systems or applications for specific purposes—which often aren’t integrated with each other—and may revise or attempt to automate certain business processes. This can result in a complex “applications hairball” that’s rife with manual tasks and bottlenecks, increases the risks of errors, can hurt the customer experience, and can limit growth.

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“Splunk is a growing, global company. We are running on one application [NetSuite], which allows us to spend our time drilling down into and analyzing data, and maximizing performance, instead of copying and combining data from different sources and systems. I have no idea how we would do this with QuickBooks and spreadsheets.”

Doug Harr, CIO, Splunk

For years NetSuite has worked with growing businesses in all industries and geographies, and with thousands of finance and IT professions who are guiding their companies through different phases of development. While these businesses are diverse, their challenges in dealing with reaching the limits of QuickBooks are often similar.

Following is a summary of many of the issues that growing companies using QuickBooks typically face, and why so many have decided to move to NetSuite—a modern, integrated, cloud-based solution that enables accelerated business growth. Case studies and quotes from those who have adopted NetSuite describe why enterprises have made this decision, how they have implemented NetSuite, and the benefits they are experiencing.

If you lead a growing business that is currently using QuickBooks, and are concerned that the pain and complexity imposed by QuickBooks is limiting your business, read on to discover that you are not alone—and that there is
a better way.