Chris Corcoran, General Manager, CloudExtend by Celigo
As a brand of iPaaS integration provider Celigo, CloudExtend has a rich history in integration. Since becoming its own separate brand within the larger venture capital-backed company in 2017, CloudExtend has leveraged Celigo's iPaaS, integrator.io, to bring new products and features to market at ever-increasing speeds. Doing so has enabled CloudExtend to launch multiple productivity solutions that empower end users to work exponentially faster.
CloudExtend has maintained a strong presence in NetSuite integrations, building solutions that connect Outlook, Google Workspace, and Excel to NetSuite. Every solution is painstakingly designed to integrate with NetSuite right from where users already work for the majority of their days: email and Excel. Each integration also leverages Celigo's core iPaaS product, integrator.io, to reduce development efforts.
CloudExtend's email applications help facilitate the NetSuite CRM as the single source of truth it is intended to be. Users can automatically save emails, files, and events to NetSuite records from their Outlook or Gmail inbox. They can also create and edit NetSuite records without leaving the inbox. Additionally, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Google Drive files can be integrated with NetSuite to save on storage costs.
After successfully releasing their NextGen email integration solutions, CloudExtend turned the focus back to Excel. On average, an employee will spend 38% of their day working in a spreadsheet. On the data management side, CloudExtend Excel works to connect dynamic data in NetSuite with Excel, bypassing the need for CSV imports and exports and drastically speeding up write-back processes: Users can create, edit, and delete NetSuite data quickly, right from within Excel. CloudExtend Excel's analytics capabilities allow users to export NetSuite saved searches into Excel automatically on a schedule or on-demand, then use that data for reporting or to feed deeper analysis and visualizations from Power BI.
Both the email and Excel NetSuite integration solutions have propelled CloudExtend to overwhelming success with NetSuite users. CloudExtend Excel users document productivity boosts such as:
CloudExtend Outlook and Gmail users quote similar positive results, including:
All of this success then led the CloudExtend team to further explore: What could it look like to expand these integration capabilities beyond NetSuite to include other popular data sources most used in the business ecosystem? What could business productivity look like if an organization was able to connect, for example, reporting data from all their social accounts to Excel and refresh all of it on a schedule or with a single click? Thus, in 2023, the engineering teams began investigating deeper into Microsoft 365 to build the capabilities to let users connect Excel to dozens of data sources. From there, users could leverage Excel or Power BI to further analyze data, even connecting data sources by common key fields like a campaign ID.
With such drastic changes and new builds needed, CloudExtend is proud to leverage a robust and talented engineering team based in Hyderabad, India.
At the heart of everything CloudExtend does lies the simple yet powerful objective of making users more productive. The dedicated engineering crew at CloudExtend is fueled by a constant drive for innovation, not just adding new data sources, but building a whole new level of integration capabilities that go beyond NetSuite to include other ERP systems. By next year, CloudExtend's offerings will be completely transformed, giving users more flexibility and power than ever before. This ambitious vision, driven by CloudExtend's talented Hyderabad team, keeps the organization moving forward, pushing boundaries and delivering solutions that unlock new efficiency levels for users in every industry.
