Around the World in 8 NetSuite Campuses

The slogan of this year’s SuiteWorld is “all systems grow”, and a shining example of that axiom is NetSuite itself. The company address book lists almost every nation in the world. It has founded offices across the globe from its original base in California, before relocating to Workiro’s own US base in Texas, and serves its ever-growing global audience from 49 locations worldwide. Join us for a whistle-stop tour of just eight of them.

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We start at the home base in Austin, Texas. The NetSuite mothership is a Workiro neighbour, at least by Texas standards - a mere 158 miles from our base in Houston, which is no kind of distance in the Lone Star State. Austin is the base of NetSuite parent Oracle, supported by seven other US offices spread across the nation. It moved there in 2020 from its original base in San Mateo, California, but brought the Silicon Valley swagger to its new purpose-built home. "You walk in and immediately notice that the facility's quality rivals the best convention venues,” says John Gori, VP of Customer Engagement at NetSuite partner Accrete Consulting.

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NetSuite retains offices in California, in Redwood Shores and Santa Monica, but let’s skip over them and head up to Denver, Colorado, in the heart of the USA. This is another office that was built to NetSuite owner Oracle’s specification, by the same architect that designed the famously spike-bedecked Denver Airport. The NetSuite offices are much tamer by comparison, but includes a 20,000-square-foot data centre within its 1.2m square-foot span, with four separate buildings connected by underground walkways. 

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The next stop is north, but only just. The Netsuite office in Toronto, Canada is further south than Seattle or Minneapolis, but sits in Canada’s most populous city, and NetSuite is just one of many major companies with a substantial presence - Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard and Kellogg’s all have their Canadian HQ in the same area. Toronto’s skyline is notable for containing the CN Tower, which ranked as the world’s tallest tower from 1975 until 2009 when it was beaten by China’s Canton Tower - but the city is notorious for appearing in disguise, as a favourite filming location for scenes set in New York or Chicago. The extensive list of titles filmed in the city includes Pacific Rim, Good Will Hunting and The Fly.

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Flying is what we’ll do to get to our next stop, hopping over the Atlantic to the first European stop: the EMEA HQ in London, England, a mere street’s width away from the official boundary of the City of London and round the corner from Moorgate Tube station. We can’t claim a close Workiro connection here - we’re a hop up north in Cambridge - but that’s easily reached with just a short walk to Farringdon station. The NetSuite offices are in the Helicon building, which was built in 1992, and lies just north of Finsbury Circus - the largest open public space in the City of London - and down the road from St Mary Moorfields, the only Catholic church in the City of London, and surprisingly well-hidden from the street because its doors are flanked by stores on each side.

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Heading deeper into Europe brings us to the NetSuite office in the heart of Frankfurt, Germany. It’s a sensible location for a company that started out in accountancy, because Frankfurt is a major financial centre - the home of the European Central Bank, Deutche Bank, and multiple financial institutions and fintech startups. They all contribute to Frankfurt being the second-wealthiest city in the Europe (London being the wealthiest).

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For our next stop, we’ll leave Europe behind and leap over to the city-state of Singapore, where NetSuite resides in the splendidly-titled Fusionopolis complex - a striking building that was originally designed by the famed Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. NetSuite are neighbours to a wide range of enterprises including universities and a biological research centre. Singapore itself hosts a huge range of other global businesses and serves as a major financial, aviation and shipping hub - the Port of Singapore is the second-busiest shipping port in the world.

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Our penultimate stop is in Tokyo, Japan, in an appropriately high-tech Oracle-branded tower which opened in 2008 and added 47,000 square metres to the global floorplan. It’s in Minato City, one of Tokyo’s largest business areas, and the base for a host of major Japanese corporations including Honda, Sony and Nikon. It’s also home to a massive swathe of international embassies and missions - a whopping 88 countries have fitted their Japanese representatives into the same 20km-square space as NetSuite.

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From Singapore we’ll head south and down, but up the corporate reporting line, to our final location in Sydney, Australia. This is another Workiro neighbour, although we’ll claim to have the better location - we’re south of the bay, not so far from the Opera House, while they’re up in northern suburbs. It has its advantages though: the nearby Macquarie Park is considered Australia’s version of Silicon Valley. The NetSuite office is the centre of a major APAC network supporting NetSuite clients in the area - there are a whopping 19 offices plugging into Sydney, including two more in Australia, four in China and two in Vietnam.

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And that’s where our tour ends - having hopped up and across the entire globe, but only viewing a fraction of the extensive NetSuite office inventory. We hope you’ve enjoyed the trip - our next stop tells the story of 'How a $125M Bet Proved Accountants are Innovators' .

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