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A CFO’s Journey Successfully Scaling a

Growth Company with Cloud Technology

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Ask, Share, Learn – Within the Largest Community of Corporate Finance Professionals

A CFO’s Journey Successfully Scaling a

Growth CompanyAnand Misra, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, NetSuite

Agenda

• Introductions

• Trends and Issues

• Keys to Successfully Outgrowing Entry Level

Systems and Manual Processes

• Successfully Scaling a Growth Company –

BlackLine’s Story

• Q&A

NetSuite: World’s #1 Cloud ERP

Background

• Publicly traded on NYSE: “N”

• 3,400+ employees

• $556.3M revenue in FY14, 34% Inc

• $157.9M revenue in Q4 FY14, 37% Inc

Performance

• Used by 24,000+ organizations

• Fastest growing top 10 FMS WW

• Used across 150+ countries

#1 Cloud ERP Suite

• VISION: NetSuite

transforms how

businesses operate

so they can achieve their

business vision.

• MISSION: NetSuite

provides companies

around the globe, cloud-

based, unified systems

that deliver unprecedented

capabilities to drive their

business.

Cloud Momentum Accelerates

1Technology affecting IT

# 50+Companies plan to increase in cloud

spend over next 12 months

%

Faster growth than worldwide

IT market

4X

Worldwide and Regional Public IT Cloud Services 2011-2015 Forecast, IDC, June 2011

Reimagining IT: The Gartner 2011 CIO Survey, Gartner, January 2011

The ROI Of Cloud Apps, Forrester, June 2011

Cloud Adoption Trends

Survey highlights - the most widely deployed solution areas currently are Accounting/Financial Management and front-end applications such as CRM and Web Portal Development Tools.

Cloud Accounting Institute - 2013 National survey of financial and accounting professionals

Key Technology Investments to Improve

Productivity

Integratingdisconnected

businesssystems

Addingbusiness

intelligencesoftware

Replacingsiloed business

systems(finance, CRM,

etc) with asingle business

suite /database

Consolidatingglobal financial

systems

Adding datawarehouse

Movingcurrentfinancial

systems tocloud

computing

Movingsubsidiariesand non-HQ

divisions in thecloud

Other0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

Why Can’t We Still Do This….?

Over time:

more money, more resources, more integrations

2

1

3

4

5

Reduce spreadsheet based accounting

Get a clear picture of bookings, billings, backlogs

Scale up to support the growth in sales orders

Provide same visibility to all

Reconcile versions of data

6 Integrate front and back office

processes

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