One of our team’s favorite events, Intersolar, will kick off on January 13-15 this year in Long Beach, CA. 2021 was a rough year for in-person events due to the on-going pandemic which resulted in the cancellation of Intersolar ’21. We’re not going to let that temper our excitement for this year’s show.
Blu Banyan will be exhibiting at Intersolar 2022 booth #1618. Drop by and check out the new stuff we have to show off, including bluChat– a team collaboartion and chat app and demo the latest updates to SolarSuccess, the software solution the Top 3 US Residential Solar Installers use to run their operations.
Jan Rippingale, CEO of Blu Banyan, a leading NetSuite Solution Provider and SuiteApp developer, was invited to participate in the SuiteWorld panel discussion, Microvertical: Growing from a Minor to a Major. The discussion was hosted live in Las Vegas on October 20th, 2021.
SuiteWorld attendees were invited to find out how to evaluate your investment in micro-verticals to drive incremental growth in your practice. Learn what to expect when you make it a major focus rather than one piece of a larger portfolio strategy.
The panel was hosted by Oracle’s Senior Director of Channel Marketing, John Goode and Craig West, GVP, Channel Sales & Alliances at Oracle. The panelists were Jan Rippingale, CEO of Blu Banyan, Kristin Steele, Principal of Doozy Solutions, LLC and Dirk Shimpach, CPA, Partner & Founder of goVirtualOffice, LLC.
The panelists were asked questions which included:
When did you launch & how did you choose your microvertical?
Where did the first customers come from?
What are the benefits of targeting a specific microvertical?
How long before you saw the benefits of targeting your verticals?
What were the key investments you made to drive growth and how did you decide when & how much?
How did you scope out the functionality within your solution?
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NetSuite has opened up many doors for companies around the globe in need of a way to manage their business assets efficiently and reliably. But as a fast-growing business, are you utilizing value-adding integrations and native NetSuite applications that can enhance these capabilities even further?
Learn how to utilize the full potential of NetSuite with Configure Price Quote (CPQ), financial and AP automation, and team collaboration and advanced project management solutions. Seamless integrations will only further streamline and connect customers, back-end processes, data, and various applications across an organization. Thus helping to create a more efficient and effective business.
Topic: Unlock the Full Potential of NetSuite for Your Business
bluChat: NATIVE NetSuite team chat – powerful, easy to use collaboration and task assignmentbluProject: Fast and easy advanced Project Management setup, with progress and subcontractor monitoring using visual timelines
Jason has spent 18 years working in the CPQ (Configure Price Quote) space serving customers and partners across manufacturing, wholesale, and retail business Verticals.
Anand Misra
Director of Product and Partner Marketing, Tipalti
Anand Misra is Director of Product and Partner Marketing at Tipalti. Prior to joining Tipalti, he was the Director of Product Marketing at Oracle NetSuite. Anand has over 15 years of experience in product marketing and product management. Anand has helped launch multiple new products over the years. Prior to joining Oracle NetSuite, Anand was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at ADP. His work experience also includes roles at Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer, and a few start-ups. Anand has a BS in biology and an MBA in finance.
Jan Rippingale
Blu Banyan Co-founder and CEO
Jan has 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. Jan 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.
Blu Banyan is committed to supporting the growth of the energy industry. That’s why we’re showcasing SolarSuccess, the premier application suite for Solar Installers at this year’s virtual Solar Power International Tradeshow and North America Smart Energy Week #NASEW
In a virtual Solar Town Hall Meeting hosted by BayWa r.e. a panel of guests, including Blu Banyan’s CEO Jan Rippingale, discussed the challenges faced by solar companies that have come to rely on piecemealed functionality of generic software applications used together, also known as “Software Stacking”, and provided a single software solution for accounting, project management, sales, and operations.
During the Town Hall, Rippingale explains, “The hairball [of software] is where most solar companies are starting. Typically accounting [data] is siloed, which means you end up hiding the information or requiring someone to be the gateway person. It creates a bottleneck around accounting and situations where you have multiple data sources, and various different interfaces that you need to learn.”
Blu Banyan’s SolarSuccess software provides solutions for solar install companies by eliminating the myriad of messy workarounds inherent in the ‘hairball’ of software stacking. “What we think is going to help the industry grow, by reducing the ‘soft costs’ -all the things to actually get solar deployed quickly, is going to be more of a single data source. SolarSuccess is a layer on top of NetSuite because they enabled us to have the accounting database, so you’re literally referencing the exact same tables that you have in your accounting system,” said Rippingale. She went on to explain the importance of all departments having access to a ‘single truth’ of real time data.
Panelist J.W. Peters, Principal of Solar Power of Oklahoma, and a current user of SolarSuccess says, “I was not looking for the accounting solution that had CRM and operations integrated into it. I kind of found Blu Banyan almost by accident, because I figured it was going to be an operations software that had CRM come in on one side and accounting come in on the other side, but until I met with SolarSuccess and the folks at Blu Banyan I didn’t realize that it really needed to be the accounting solution that tied the others into it. That was kind of a mind-shift for me.”
Joe Marhamati, the CFO/VP/Co-Founder of Ipsun Solar, who has also implemented SolarSuccess, shares his experience of how his team gets company buy-in by democratically selecting software, rather than using top-down decision making.
In a mock consulting session Rippingale gave her pitch to panelists and addressed their specific concerns including:
Blu Banyan will be at Solar Power International booth# 3951 showcasing SolarSuccess, a NetSuite application optimized for residential and commercial solar installers. SolarSuccess is an end-to-end business management software that enables solar businesses to maximize organizational efficency.
September 24-27, 2018
Anaheim Convention Center – Anaheim, CA
Join us at Solar Power International (SPI) to learn how SolarSuccess, the premiere business management solution for Solar Installers, can help take your company to the next level.
