NetSuite Next & Ask Oracle: AI becomes conversational and action-focused
What NetSuite announced
- NetSuite introduced NetSuite Next, a new mode that users can switch on, seamlessly (no migrations, minimal disruption).
- At the core is Ask Oracle, a natural language assistant that lets users query, navigate, analyze, and even act on data in NetSuite using plain English.
- Ask Oracle provides context-aware responses, visualizations, and reasoning (i.e. “how” and “why” behind results)
- Agentic workflows (AI-driven tasks) can propose or even carry out steps (reconciliations, vendor selection, etc.), with user oversight
- The experience is grounded in existing data, customizations, permission settings, and roles.
What this means (and the catch)
- This shifts NetSuite from tool + dashboard to conversational AI partner in operations and finance.
- But it also raises stakes: if underlying data is messy, inconsistent, or drifted, then Ask Oracle’s insights and actions might be flawed or misleading.
- Trust, explainability, auditability, and data governance become even more critical.
Where Blue Onion steps in
- Blue Onion can be your data assurance layer, ensuring that the data flowing into NetSuite (and hence Ask Oracle) is clean, reconciled, and trustworthy.
- We become the quality gate before AI acts.
- From a marketing vantage: lead with messaging like, “Ask Oracle is powerful, but only with trusted data behind it.”
- Asset ideas: a blog titled “Don’t Turn on Ask Oracle Until Your Data is Clean”, a demo video showing Blue Onion + NetSuite Next in action, or an infographic mapping data flow → Ask Oracle → action.
AI Everywhere — Embedded in Ops, Compliance, Reporting
What NetSuite announced
- AI is not just for dashboards. NetSuite is embedding it deeply into operations, financial processes, compliance, and decision workflows
- Examples include Text Enhance (ensuring product descriptions or copy align with branding or compliance rules)
- Embedded compliance checks (e.g. enforcing regulatory language, standards)
- Narrative reporting:tying context, story, insight to raw numbers (e.g., for sales/operations audiences).
What this means (and the catch)
- AI will increasingly act, not just suggest, on real business processes.
- But every automated decision or narrative depends on data quality. A minor misalignment in raw data (e.g. transaction mismatch, incorrect fee attribution) could cascade into misleading insights or decisions.
Where Blue Onion steps in
- Market Blue Onion as pre-AI hygiene: clean data before AI acts.
- Use content like “Case studies: how dirty eCommerce data breaks automation workflows and how Blue Onion fixes it.”
- SDRs can reference this when prospects talk about automation, “Yes, AI is great, but have you audited your data?”
- Create a short video or slide pack: “AI is powerful, but only if the numbers behind it are correct.”
User Experience Reimagined & Prompt Studio
What NetSuite announced
- A refreshed UX to support conversational and AI interaction, built with Oracle’s Redwood design standards.
- A new tool called Prompt Studio (or similar naming) to allow admins or power users to fine-tune prompts, tailor AI behavior, and define the experience. (You saw this in the slide you mentioned.)
- The interface is intended to be more fluid, context-aware, and less rigid than classic pages/forms.
What this means (and the catch)
- The barrier to adoption is lowered: better UX makes AI and conversational features more accessible to less-technical users.
- But even the best interface fails if the data feeding it is faulty.
Where Blue Onion steps in
- Position Blue Onion as the invisible UX enabler, the system behind the scenes ensuring UI interactions map to correct underlying transactions.
- Produce content like: “UX + data trust = adoption: why users abandon tools when data is wrong.”
- Offer a mini demo: “In Prompt Studio, see what happens if the base data is wrong vs when Blue Onion has cleaned it.”
Final Thoughts & Strategic Call-Outs
SuiteWorld 2025 signals a shift: AI and automation are becoming first-class parts of ERP systems, not side attachments. But as NetSuite embeds conversational AI, agentic workflows, and narrative insights directly into the platform, it places a premium on the trustworthiness of underlying data.
That’s where Blue Onion can be more than just a companion, t becomes an essential data quality foundation for the new AI era.
If you like, I can format this as a shareable slide deck or internal playbook (with artwork/visuals) your team can use. Do you want me to build that?
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