Evan Goldberg Charts NetSuite’s AI-Driven Future With An Eye On India
When Oracle NetSuite’s Founder and EVP Evan Goldberg stepped onto the SuiteWorld stage this year, his message was not about incremental upgrades but about a change in the way businesses will work, which is powered by conversational intelligence, governed data, and local scale. The launch of NetSuite Next, described as the “next generation” of the world’s first cloud ERP, signals a shift from simply accessing data in the cloud to acting on it through AI-driven automation.We’re moving from cloud access to AI action”
- Evan Goldberg, Founder and Executive Vice President, Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit
India Moves From Roadmap To Reality
A year ago, Oracle announced plans to establish NetSuite data centres in India. At SuiteWorld 2025, that expansion became tangible. New facilities are now live in Brazil, with India identified by Goldberg as the next priority market in the roll-out. Once operational, Indian customers will gain faster access, data-residency assurance, and performance improvements on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a critical foundation for the company’s growing AI ambitions.
For India’s business community, this carries weight. MSMEs are the backbone of India’s economy, contributing nearly a third of GDP and a major share of exports. As these enterprises accelerate digital adoption, the ability to deploy secure, locally hosted, AI-enabled systems becomes central to their competitiveness. NetSuite’s move aligns precisely with that trajectory.
India is where the next wave of digital-first businesses will emerge
The AI Conversation Becomes Operational
Goldberg’s central argument this year was that AI must become a “natural extension” of how people already work. Within NetSuite Next, that idea manifests in Ask Oracle, a conversational layer that can analyse, explain, and act on information across the suite. It can, for instance, detect spikes in returns, suggest payment runs, or convert uploaded invoices into workflows, all while showing users the reasoning and data source behind every action.
He likened the technology not to a co-pilot, but to “the jet engine” of the business, emphasising speed, autonomy, and transparency. The intention, he said, is to keep humans in control while automating complexity, a principle that sits well with finance and operations teams wary of opaque AI systems.
It’s not a co-pilot. It’s the jet engine of your business: Evan Goldberg
Building A Trusted AI Ecosystem
Beyond product design, NetSuite also strengthened its partner programme to accelerate what Goldberg called “trusted AI innovation”. A new SuiteApp.AI Marketplace now helps developers bring certified AI-driven solutions to market faster, supported by Oracle Cloud’s governance and data-security standards. Partners such as Avalara, Legion, Gatekeeper, and Contivio are already embedding AI agents for compliance, finance, and workflow automation — signalling how a broader ecosystem could form around NetSuite’s core platform.
This partner-led model is particularly relevant to India’s technology integrators and independent software vendors, who are increasingly building verticalised AI solutions for export markets. The framework allows them to plug into a global distribution channel while adhering to enterprise-grade compliance.
Trust and transparency will define the next phase of enterprise AI: Evan Goldberg
From Cloud Access To AI Action
Other announcements at SuiteWorld, including intelligent payment automation with BILL and AI-based Subscription Metrics for CFOs, reinforce NetSuite’s focus on automating financial decision-making. Together, they showcase a shift from dashboards to decisions: an evolution from cloud access to AI action.
Goldberg said that these innovations are grounded in explainable AI and data transparency, with every number and recommendation traceable to its source. That governance lens, he argued, is what will define the next phase of enterprise AI adoption.
For growing enterprises, AI is not an add-on but the operating system of growth: Evan Goldberg
The India Opportunity Ahead
NetSuite now counts more than two million active users and over 100,000 subsidiaries worldwide, operating across 35 regions. As its India data centres come online, the company will have the local infrastructure to match its intent.
For Indian mid-market enterprises — many of which are scaling globally for the first time — that combination of AI capability, regulatory compliance, and ecosystem access could be pivotal. NetSuite’s new chapter, in essence, mirrors India’s own business moment: technology-driven, globally ambitious, and powered by small and medium enterprises ready to take flight.
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