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ZDNet has their writers in the right place at the right time. I was at a NetSuite conference when I received a Twitter message with an alert about NetSuite SuiteBundler... and it said...

NetSuite SuiteBundler: Most important software of the last ten years? More from the ZDNet article...

Along the road to an expected IPO this year, NetSuite CEO Zack Nelson announced SuiteBundler, a new set of capabilities for building and customizing applications with the company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The major innovation is that customizations and configurations created in one NetSuite account can be reused in another account without recoding or rewriting, Nelson said.

He claimed that SuiteBundler is "one of the most important pieces of software written in the last decade," and a "Holy Grail for services companies."

I asked Nelson to elaborate on his notion that SuiteBundler is a major milestone. "Talk to any exec at a services company - they dream of reusing code. SuiteBundler is the icing on the cake, with SuiteFlex which allows you to do rich customization. For SuiteBundler to be able to take all the customizations and inject them into another account is mind blowing."

It's hard to make the case that reusable NetSuite components is the Holy Grail of software, but it will be more easy and cost effective to assemble vertical applications.

NetSuite co-founder Bill Bailey demoed the creation of a "bundle" with a visual interface, choosing any object type, objects and contents (such as lists, saved searches, and scripts) that are wrapped up as reusable bundle, accessible by other NetSuite accounts. SuiteBundler checks for dependencies and allows users to set privileges - private, public or shared, for customers accounts that have purchased the bundle

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