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...But over the past decade, Oracle has had only one big deal — the $9.3bn purchase of cloud software company NetSuite, which Mr Ellison himself had helped to found....
...Oracle, facing a shareholder lawsuit over its 2016 acquisition of NetSuite, argued that one board member was objective despite maintaining two properties on a Hawaiian island owned by Oracle founder Larry...
...Once an uncontested stalwart of the workplace the group has come under competition in more recent years from companies such as Salesforce.com, Xero and NetSuite....
...To avoid charges of conflict of interest, Mr Ellison agreed that his shares would not count towards the NetSuite vote....
...Oracle made what looked like a desperate gamble of its own recently with the $9bn purchase of NetSuite, a deal that appeared to be driven more by an urge to bulk up Oracle’s cloud revenues than a strong...
...It also said that Mr Ellison would abstain from a NetSuite shareholder vote to approve the deal....
...Companies such as Salesforce and NetSuite are winning market share by selling subscription-based software, while users increasingly prefer remotely hosted “cloud” applications that require less internal...
...Its enterprise value at the middle of the range is six times sales; less than Workday or NetSuite....
...Adobe Systems advanced 1 per cent to $78.96 and NetSuite rose 1 per cent to $100.48....
...That compares with 3 per cent for auctions, says Bill Hambrecht, whose eponymous firm participated in IPO auctions for Google, Rackspace and NetSuite....
...Workday and Splunk, both of which listed their shares last year, along with Netsuite, whose stock has risen 93 per cent in the past 12 months, trade at between 16 and 24 times their forecast 2013 revenue...
...Consider this representative handful: NetSuite (budgeting), Workday (human resources), SolarWinds (network management), Splunk (data analysis), ExactTarget and Responsys (both marketing)....
...the role of a chief financial officer has been to look after the company books using spreadsheets and finance modules built into enterprise resource planning (ERP) suites from the likes of SAP, Oracle, NetSuite...
...“Part of his strategy appears to be a ‘Get Larry’ strategy, there is an animus,” adds Zach Nelson, boss of NetSuite, a software company that counts Mr Ellison as its controlling shareholder....
...When he chose a cloud-based ERP system from NetSuite, a seller of on-demand business software, he was mindful of the fact that, as Selecta grows, it is likely to require additional modules to the finance...
...latest fundraising, announced on Monday, has put a valuation of $2bn on the business, according to one person familiar with the transaction – not far shy of the values accorded to public SaSS companies like Netsuite...
...His most successful call was a buy rating on NetSuite, a cloud computing service, for the second half of the year, as it shot up 93 per cent, outperforming its industry benchmark by 60 per cent....
...Other SaaS names such as NetSuite and SuccessFactors have been caught in the updraft....
...NetSuite argues that smaller offices need no longer be left out in the cold....
...NetSuite disses SAP’s cloud-based software apps Like German cars, SAP’s business software has a reputation for solid performance – and premium pricing. But is the pricey reputation deserved?...
...The growth of companies such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite that offer software-as-a-service (SaaS), and the emergence of cloud computing, where companies buy anything from raw IT capacity to complete business...
...NetSuite service aimed at manufacturers NetSuite, the US software-as-a-service pioneer, announces NetSuite Manufacturing Edition....
...Microsoft’s pitch aims to counter NetSuite’s aggressive moves to sign up software resellers, many of which, NetSuite claims, are suffering from ”sagging demand for old legacy on-premise systems such as those...
...In the US, Microsoft and SAP have targeted the top end of Sage’s market while Kashflow and Netsuite have targeted smaller potential customers....
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