BEAM ME UP NETSUITE!
It has been a hectic few weeks. It felt like I was on the away team of the Original Star Trek series and was wearing a red shirt (In-joke, look it up if unsure!). Both my work and home life have just been one push after another, and I can’t just demand that Scotty beams me up! Thats what happens when you are away for two weeks solid and then return to work.
So finally, today I am catching up. It must be the Warp Factor 9 I have been pushing the engines at has finally paid off!
I have taken a giant step forward from a practicing Luddite to an unwilling technophile. Due to new security measures in the office and system-wise, I have been forced to ditch my 20-year-old flip-top phone that made me feel like Captain Kirk for a modern brick.
Everyone tells me that you can do everything on it and life will be much easier for me now. Will it? Seriously! What will be easier, now I am attached to the office 24 hours every day and to LinkedIn? Am I living in a virtual reality now, do I even know what the real world is?
Anyway, what I have noticed on my ungainly brick is this: I no longer need to boot up the work laptop at odd hours to check NetSuite for results or my work email for new hits. Better yet, I can type a message that doesn’t get corrected endlessly when I email out.
Is that progress, I ask you? When I traded my Model T Ford in a few years ago and realised I had a CD player built-in rather than a record player on the back seat, I thought then, “Well, I prefer vinyl!” defiantly. And yet, now I am forced to listen to my wife’s ABBA CDs in the car, call that progress?
Okay, so the rants are over. What I have noticed is that my phone seems to do everything I need from NetSuite on the phone anywhere, anytime. So, when the boss phoned unexpectedly and said, “How are you getting on with company X?” I just clicked in on my phone and there was the answer. followed by a quick phone call to company X and a chat, and then an update online.
Amazing tech, I agree. What other software offers such flexibility? Definitely something a Managing Director wants to have; is it what you want?
Anyway, as always, my associate, the ever-dapper Luke Fenwick, offers demos weekly, and I have even been known to discuss the benefits of such a well-rounded Finance and ERP package.
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