NetSuite, a provider of cloud computing business management software suites, has announced a partnership with IBM to further connect and integrate their respective cloud solutions.

The focal point of this effort is IBM’s recent acquisition of Cast Iron Systems, a company that enables customers to connect on-premise applications and business processes to software as a service (SaaS) applications, including NetSuite and NetSuite OneWorld, a leading cloud-based solution that delivers real-time global business management and financial consolidation for businesses with multinational and multi-subsidiary operations.

The Cast Iron Systems solution provides a complete platform to integrate cloud and on-premise applications, and has delivered thousands of cloud integrations around the world. With NetSuite OneWorld and the Cast Iron Systems solution, customers can use NetSuite's cloud applications to manage multinational, multi-subsidiary business operations in real-time and then roll up division-level transaction and summary data to their corporate-level SAP or Oracle enterprise resource planning system to gain a key enterprise-wide view of business operations. The Cast Iron Systems solution can also be used to connect NetSuite with a wide variety of other on-premise software systems.

Cast Iron Systems offers clients a complete platform to integrate cloud applications with on-premise applications, such as ERP solutions from SAP and Oracle. Using Cast Iron Systems’ hundreds of pre-built templates and services expertise, expensive custom coding can be eliminated allowing cloud integrations to be completed in the space of days, rather than weeks or longer. These results can be achieved using a physical appliance, a virtual appliance or a cloud service.