NetSuite 2025.1: The Latest Features and Enhancements
To stay competitive, your business software must keep pace with continuous innovation. NetSuite understands this and provides customers with biannual updates that introduce powerful enhancements across the suite, designed to streamline operations and empower businesses to scale.
What’s new in NetSuite 2025.1?
NetSuite 2025.1 brings significant advancements in AI, automation, and reporting. We’ve summarised some of the key changes below:
- AI-Enhanced Reporting and Analytics
One of the most exciting features of this release is the deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across the suite. The system now leverages AI to generate financial and transactional narratives, automating the report creation process. This allows businesses to reduce manual work while improving the accuracy and insight of reports. Additionally, SuiteAnswers now uses AI to provide quicker, more relevant responses to user queries. - Streamlined Procurement Tools
NetSuite’s SuiteProcurement tools have been expanded to include more advanced capabilities for purchasing indirect goods and services. Available in the UK and Australia, SuiteProcurement allows buyers to seamlessly “punchout” to suppliers’ online stores, automatically create purchase requests, and generate purchase orders (POs), all within NetSuite. One of the most notable enhancements is the upgraded bill capture, which leverages AI to streamline invoice processing, ensuring quicker and more accurate data capture. - Powerful Developer Tools for Customisation
For developers, the SuiteCloud Platform introduces a range of new tools for building customised applications and integrating AI-powered services. This includes improved security with OAuth 2.0, expanded SuiteScript 2.1 libraries, and new features to help developers create seamless experiences for users. - Better Integration and Customer Insights
NetSuite 2025.1 improves integration with Salesforce, Shopify B2B sites, and Microsoft Outlook, automatically syncing data and removing the need for manual entry. The update also enhances NetSuite Customer 360, offering new charts and metrics that provide deeper insights into a customer’s transaction history, status, and relationship activity.
AI-Powered Features to Drive Business Insights
NetSuite’s 2025.1 release brings a wealth of AI-powered features that significantly improve productivity and decision-making. One of the standout features is the ability to generate detailed narratives from operational and financial data. This enhancement utilises data science, machine learning, and generative AI to automatically draft reports, making it easier for finance teams to focus on insights rather than data entry.
These AI features also enhance the speed and accuracy of reporting. According to NetSuite, this new functionality helps businesses generate more meaningful, actionable reports while speeding up processes like month-end closings, enabling teams to focus on more strategic tasks.
New Bill Capture Module for the UK and Australia
The Bill Capture module, previously only available in the US, is now accessible in both the UK and Australia. This paid feature allows businesses to capture and process bills more efficiently using AI. The enhanced module improves the speed and accuracy of data extraction from invoices, making it easier to track and manage expenses.
Reducing Manual Effort and Maximising Productivity
NetSuite 2025.1 also introduces new tools to reduce manual processes and increase productivity. A key addition is the standalone grant management SuiteApp, which serves as a central hub for tracking grant records, and performance indicators (KPIs), and generating grant-specific reports. This will be particularly valuable for organisations that rely on grants for revenue, giving them greater visibility and control. Updates to the SuitePeople payroll module also enhance the employee experience by allowing secure access to digital copies of annual tax forms, improving efficiency for payroll departments.
The enhancements in NetSuite 2025.1 demonstrate the platform’s commitment to helping businesses stay ahead in an ever-changing marketplace. From AI-powered reporting to advanced procurement tools and the expanded Bill Capture module in the UK and Australia, NetSuite 2025.1 delivers cutting-edge solutions that reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and empower businesses to scale.
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