Inside NetSuite’s next act: Evan Goldberg on the future of AI-powered business systems

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When Evan Goldberg started NetSuite in 1998, his vision was radically simple: give entrepreneurs access to their business data anytime, anywhere. At the time, most enterprise software lived on local servers.

As an entrepreneur himself, Goldberg understood the frustration intimately. "I had fragmented systems. They all said something different," he recalls of his early days.

NetSuite was the first company to deliver enterprise applications entirely through web browsers, combining CRM, ERP, and ecommerce into one unified platform. That breakthrough idea pioneered the cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) era and propelled supersonic growth, a 2007 IPO, and an acquisition by Oracle in 2016.

Still innovating at the leading-edge

That founding obsession — turning scattered data into accessible, coherent, actionable intelligence — is driving NetSuite as it reshapes the next generation of enterprise software.

At SuiteWorld 2025 last month, the Austin-based firm unveiled NetSuite Next. Goldberg calls it "the biggest ...