Discover how NetSuite Analytics Warehouse (NSAW) transforms your business intelligence by centralizing and enhancing your data analysis.
Learn why NSAW is the must-have analytics platform for NetSuite users seeking actionable insight, with over 70% of businesses reporting improved decision-making capabilities after implementation. In the current data-centric landscape, businesses require quicker and more intelligent access to their data. NetSuite Analytics Warehouse (NSAW) is crafted to provide exactly that—effortlessly linking your NetSuite ERP and various data sources to derive valuable insights.
Whether you're looking to optimize your KPIs, automate reporting, or support decision-making with real-time insights, NSAW brings advanced analytics within reach for mid-market and growing enterprises. In this article, we’ll walk you through why NSAW is a game-changer, how to use it effectively, and what makes it the most powerful data and analytics solution for NetSuite customers.
What is NetSuite Analytics Warehouse (NSAW)?
Why Should Businesses Leverage NetSuite Analytics Warehouse?
How Does NSAW Automate Data Analysis and Reporting?
What Metrics Can You Track Using NSAW?
Can NSAW Handle Historical Data and Real-Time Insights?
How Does NSAW Integrate with Multiple Data Sources and Third-Party Tools?
Is NetSuite Analytics Warehouse Suitable for All ERP Users?
How to Create Custom Dashboards in NSAW for Powerful Data Visualizations?
What’s the Role of Oracle Analytics Cloud in NSAW?
How to Implement NSAW with a NetSuite Alliance Partner?
NetSuite Analytics Warehouse is a cloud-based data storage and analytics solution that provides organizations with a centralized hub to store, manage, and analyze data from multiple sources, including NetSuite ERP and third-party applications. NSAW consolidates structured business data, enabling analytical and data-driven decision-making.
NSAW integrates with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and is powered by Oracle Analytics Cloud, which brings enterprise-grade scalability and security. NSAW comes with prebuilt dashboards, self-service analytics, and robust visualization tools, allowing users to explore, analyze, and present their data in meaningful ways.
By centralizing your business data and turning NetSuite data into a strategic asset, NSAW offers companies the ability to go beyond standard NetSuite reporting and unlock deeper insights into operations, finance, sales, and more.
Organizations today are flooded with data but often struggle to extract valuable insights that support growth and agility. Leverage NetSuite Analytics Warehouse to bring together multiple sources of data and uncover patterns, trends, and anomalies across departments.
NSAW enables teams to make informed decisions based on clean, consolidated, and enriched data from within the NetSuite environment and beyond. It empowers companies to streamline operations, enhance performance tracking, and ensure that every department operates based on a unified view of business data.
Using NetSuite Analytics Warehouse also eliminates the need for extensive custom reporting or IT-heavy data wrangling. With built-in analytics and a modern analytics platform, it provides a scalable foundation to grow as your analytics needs evolve.
One of the core benefits of using NetSuite Analytics Warehouse is its ability to automate complex data flows and analytics processes. NSAW connects with NetSuite ERP to continuously sync and transform data using an automated data pipeline.
The system allows for automated report generation and updates, significantly reducing manual effort while increasing accuracy and timeliness. By leveraging pre-built connectors and transformation models, NSAW minimizes IT dependency and accelerates time-to-insight.
Through data management best practices built into the platform, organizations can set up scheduled refreshes, trigger-based workflows, and streamlined reporting for executive dashboards, monthly reviews, and departmental performance.
NSAW offers robust analytics capabilities for tracking both standard and customized metrics across finance, sales, supply chain, HR, and operations. It supports common KPIs such as revenue, expenses, cash flow, sales forecasts, and customer retention rates.
Because NSAW allows users to create and customize their own dashboards, businesses can focus on the specific metrics that matter most to their strategy and goals. This flexibility enhances data-driven initiatives, enabling better visibility into operational performance.
With built-in models and templates, NSAW simplifies the process of tracking KPIs and aligning them with broader business needs—delivering analytics that are accessible and actionable by every stakeholder.
Yes—NSAW excels at blending historical data with real-time insights to provide a comprehensive view of performance. Organizations can analyze trends over time, compare year-over-year performance, and identify seasonal patterns using historical data stored securely in the NetSuite data warehouse.
Additionally, NSAW provides support for real-time insights by regularly syncing with live data from NetSuite and other applications. This means business leaders no longer have to wait for monthly reports to spot issues or opportunities.
By merging the past with the present, NSAW brings a dynamic, always-on lens to analytics—helping companies anticipate what’s ahead through predictive analytics and trend analysis.
NSAW integrates with both NetSuite ERP data and external systems such as third-party applications, legacy systems, and even platforms like Google Analytics. This makes it easy to unify data from various sources and analyze them in one environment.
Through Oracle’s robust connectors, NSAW connects to data across marketing, sales, CRM, HR, and financial platforms. This capability allows businesses to bring together complex data from siloed systems and perform cross-functional analysis.
By streamlining these integrations, NSAW eliminates the traditional pain points of exporting/importing data and enables analytics with NetSuite that are truly holistic and business-centric.
While NetSuite Analytics Warehouse provides the most seamless experience for NetSuite users, it can also integrate data from third-party ERP and CRM systems, making it valuable for companies operating in hybrid environments.
However, NSAW is optimized for those looking to implement NetSuite or already running Oracle NetSuite as their core ERP. Its native connection ensures quicker setup, lower integration costs, and full compatibility with NetSuite’s data schema.
NSAW is especially ideal for organizations seeking an analytics solution that grows with their business—scalable from small departments to enterprise-wide deployment across global teams.
Creating custom dashboards in NSAW is simple thanks to the intuitive interface, drag-and-drop tools, and access to curated analytics data. You can build data-driven dashboards tailored to specific roles—executives, finance teams, marketing leaders, or operations.
These custom dashboards allow teams to filter, drill down, and interact with data dynamically, providing real-time snapshots and trend visualizations. For example, a CFO might monitor profitability trends, while a sales leader views regional performance.
With pre-built templates and the ability to create custom visualizations, NSAW ensures that all stakeholders can make sense of the data and contribute to smarter planning and forecasting.
NSAW leverages the power of Oracle Analytics Cloud to deliver a rich, enterprise-grade analytics experience. This includes access to AI-driven insights, self-service analytics, natural language querying, and data storytelling features.
Through machine learning models and advanced visualizations, models to deliver deeper insights are made possible, enabling users to identify patterns and uncover correlations across large datasets.
Because NSAW is powered by Oracle Analytics Cloud, it benefits from the same cutting-edge technology used by Fortune 500 companies—without the overhead or complexity of traditional BI implementations.
While NetSuite Analytics Warehouse (NSAW) offers incredible potential to transform how businesses manage and analyze their data, many organizations find implementation more challenging than expected. Data mapping across multiple sources can be time-consuming and error-prone. Standard configurations often fall short of meeting a company’s unique reporting and dashboard needs. And most internal teams lack the deep NSAW expertise required to fully unlock its powerful capabilities.
That’s where Kimberlite Partners comes in.
As a NetSuite-focused consulting firm with over 300 successful ERP implementations, Kimberlite brings a unique blend of technical precision and strategic insight to every NSAW project. Our team doesn’t just install and configure—we partner with you to ensure your data models, dashboards, and reporting tools align with your business goals from day one.
Instead of relying on generic templates, Kimberlite develops tailored dashboard experiences that reflect your specific KPIs and decision-making needs. Whether it’s unifying data from NetSuite and third-party systems or designing role-specific views for finance, operations, or executive teams, our approach is customized to deliver value at every layer of the business.
What truly sets Kimberlite apart is our DiamondCare subscription service. Post-implementation, we don’t disappear—we stay with you to continuously optimize your NSAW environment, support new reporting needs, and adapt to changing business requirements. It’s a long-term, collaborative relationship built on helping you turn your NetSuite data into a strategic asset.
If you're beginning your NSAW journey or struggling to get value from a previous deployment, Kimberlite Partners can help you close the gap between potential and performance. With certified NetSuite professionals, proven processes, and a commitment to continuous support, we empower your organization to extract deeper insights and make smarter, faster decisions—every day.
Ready to transform the way your organization uses data? Let’s talk.