IDE is shorthand for “Integrated Development Environment”

The NetSuite platform is loaded with invisible secrets. Each one has a door to an endless buffet of tasty choices. Do you want steak or chocolate cake? How about eggs Benedict with a martini? It’s all there. Okay, it’s not a restaurant, but the customization recipes are truly endless. Every screen can be changed to fit your business needs.

All records are flexible

Every single record has options. You can modify them coming and going. You can shrink a record to reduce complexity, or add more data to handle more situations. You can make some fields depend on others. You can even make a field depend on data somewhere else in the system. It’s all there.

More options than you need

More problems means more options, seriously. Every piece of data has possibilities. There are as many hooks, actions, triggers, sources, and filters as business problems. Your imagination is probably more limited than the solution scenarios available.

The parts you can see are tiny

When you open a sales order you see just the details for that one order. What you can’t see are the array of forms, events, scripts, workflows, validations, and all the business logic that are making one single order flow correctly through your business. The user sees a form while the developer sees an IDE.

An integrated system

NetSuite is a template of templates, designed to responsibly handle business data in a predictable and orderly fashion. The whole platform is a dedicated development environment for solving business challenges. I see it an an ecosystem which provides a backbone to weave your data into a coherent picture of daily operations. All you need to do is get started.