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Blu Banyan – Bringing a human values-based approach to transformative business solutions that drive economic growth

NetSuite is a software company that has developed a cloud-based business management platform used by more than 36,000 fast-growing organizations across the globe. That platform consists of a suite of applications that help companies run their business, understand the performance of their businesses and drive major efficiency gains and cost savings. The company’s ERP system manages core functions, including finance and accounting, inventory, orders and procurement. Customers can add options including CRM for sales, service and marketing automation, human resources (HR) for personnel records, performance management and payroll, professional services automation (PSA) to plan and track projects and omnichannel commerce for both online and in-store sales. All of these modules share a common database. Thanks to that central data source, information from across the system updates in real time and is accessible to authorized users across business functions.

Blu Banyan is an award-winning NetSuite Solution Partner and SuiteApp developer with extensive experience in ERP consulting, implementation and professional services, especially in the solar, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, and apparel sectors. Its clients range from fast ramping startups that have outgrown their current software to industry leaders wanting to optimize productivity and profitability beyond their existing ERP implementation. Companies often mix software tools to address their expanding needs. This results in a “hairball” of incompatible applications, conflicting data, and duplicated functionality. Blu Banyan solves this problem by providing unified, integrated applications, with a single source of data/reporting that eliminates information silos. Blu Banyan's experience and particular commitment to the solar industry drives its SolarSuccess app as the leading cloud-based business management suite designed specifically for residential and commercial solar installers. SolarSuccess helps solar installers maximize their business and reduce soft costs.

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Leveraging Award-Winning Business Management NetSuite Software Solutions and Services

SolarSuccess: SolarSuccess software is a cloud ERP, CRM, and project management system for the solar industry. It is powered by NetSuite, the world’s leading cloud Business Management Platform built with modern scalable technologies. SolarSuccess is comprehensive solar business software that helps solar installers and developers to better manage their projects, optimize resource utilization, and reduce risks and costs. SolarSuccess is built natively on Oracle NetSuite to take advantage of the latest technologies for speed and security. The software also integrates with other leading solar industry software solutions to support the needs of growing businesses. When it comes to team collaboration, chat software is an essential tool. It allows team members to communicate quickly and easily, sharing ideas and working together seamlessly. It includes bluChat, a fully integrated chat tool that makes team collaboration simple and efficient. With bluChat, team members can communicate in real time, sharing ideas and working together seamlessly. They can also easily find the information they need, without having to search through email messages or documents.

As a solar installation company, you know that eﬃcient resource planning is essential to your success. But coordinating materials, equipment, and personnel can be a challenge. That’s where ERP software comes in. SolarSucces ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is designed to help businesses manage their resources more eﬃciently. Blu Banyan's software provides a centralized database for all of your resource information. This makes it easy to track and manage every aspect of your projects across different departments and locations. From sending automated emails and notifications to updating customer records, their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) & Sales Automation features will help you streamline your operations and improve efficiency. With the SolarSuccess CRM & Sales Automation features, you’ll be able to automate processes, update customer records quickly, build custom workflows with easy-to-use interface, and streamline your sales operations for improved efficiency.

BuilderSuccess: It is fully featured construction management software that empowers residential/commercial builders and general & trade contractors to simplify and automate the pre-sales process, streamline project management and improve communication and collaboration across all business departments. From Sales & CRM, Project Accounting & Finance to Advanced Project Management, Asset Management, Service/Defect Management and more, BuilderSuccess is the solution you need to manage growth. With on platform collaboration tools and a growing list of integration partners, you can simplify your construction company’s IT ecosystem with a powerful single system solution. Their project management software is designed to help you manage your construction projects from start to finish. They give you the tools you need to control your budget, track your progress and ensure that your project is completed on time and within budget. The company and its team understands that every construction project is different, which is why they offer a customizable solution that can be tailored to your client’s specific needs. Whether you’re managing a small residential project or a large estate development, BuilderSuccess can help you get the job done right.

Visibility is key when it comes to successfully managing and completing projects on time and on budget. BuilderSuccess gives you the ability to configure your dashboards, by role, to ensure that every user has the information they need to complete tasks accurately and efficiently. From project status and task completion through to financial performance metrics and reminders, the BuilderSuccess dashboard is your single source of truth for all business data. It offers a robust data, dashboards and reporting feature set for the construction industry. The features allow construction professionals to track project progress, performance and costs in real-time. The reports are customizable and can be exported to Excel, CSV or PDF formats for further analysis. With BuilderSuccess, managing inter-company transactions and consolidations is easy. Because all entities exist within a single database, managing your group of companies becomes a much simpler task. Accounting transactions can be automated and approved in real time, ensuring that you have complete visibility over your group of companies overarching performance at all times.

NetSuite Professional Services: Blu Banyan is a leading provider of NetSuite Professional Services. The company offers a broad range of NetSuite services including NetSuite implementations, customizations, optimizations, integrations, managed services, and training. The team of NetSuite experts will work with you to ensure that your NetSuite implementation is successful and fully meets your business needs. Blu Banyan offers a broad range of NetSuite Professional Services that can help you get the most out of your NetSuite implementation. With a team of experienced and expert consultants, Blu Banyan can help you with any NetSuite customization, development, or implementation needs you may have. The team has implemented NetSuite into a wide range of industries, meaning they are able to draw on real-world experience when it comes to solutioning, configuring, customizing and testing your NetSuite instance.

bluChat: Expand the Capabilities of Your Business with the only native NetSuite team collaboration application. bluChat is the smartest way for any NetSuite-based organization to extend the power, value and productivity of its NetSuite investment, by incorporating a powerful yet easy team collaboration tool. bluChat enables faster and better communication across all company teams and groups, minimizing operational fumbles, and eliminating the back and forth time sink of using non-native chat tools. Skip all the jumping back and forth between applications to communicate with your team. bluChat takes minutes to deploy, and minutes to learn, because it uses the NetSuite navigation and search conventions your staff already know. Leverage the power and ease of bluChat for better team collaboration, faster issue resolution, and improved productivity and profitability.

Jan Rippingale | Founder and CEO

Jan has over 10 years in the solar industry and over 20 years of experience in software development, as a system architect, data architect, web developer, ERP developer, and database developer, with extensive experience in both technical management and business system analysis. She worked at NASA, has a BS in Chemical Engineering, holds several patents, has numerous professional and Oracle/NetSuite qualifications, is a frequent contributor to key energy policy initiatives, and has traveled and worked extensively abroad.