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Platform Governance for NetSuite is a SuiteApp integrated into the NetSuite backend. All your data stays within your NetSuite account. Documentation is automatically maintained and always up to date.

By implementing Platform Governance for NetSuite you can:

  • Automatically catalog all custom fields, scripts, forms, searches, records, and workflows.
  • Visually browse standard and custom fields, lists, and records to find all related scripts, searches, users, and departments.
  • Capture and search script comments and identify poorly commented code.
  • Automatically track changes to your customizations using the change logs, so you can see what customizations were changed, how they were changed, when they were changed and who changed them.

Netwrix University offers tutorials for Platform Governance for NetSuite. Sign in to your Netwrix account to access them.

Installation and Initial Scan​

After you install Platform Governance for NetSuite, click the Start Spider button and your customizations are documented over the course of 4-5 days with minimal impact on system performance. After it completes, you have a searchable database of all your customizations.

Documentation and Optimization​

After installation, it takes 4-5 days to document your customizations and approximately 3 weeks to have your account both fully documented and optimized.

Clean Up​

Use the end to end documentation of custom objects and the Clean Up Tools to:

  • Identify unused fields, searches, and other custom objects.
  • Quickly identify dependencies to reduce the risk of breaking customizations in your account (for example, see if a search is being used in a script or workflow).
  • Use Change Requests to keep your changes organized and capture approvals.

Script Management​

Critical Script Analysis lets you determine how healthy your scripts are and what areas you can fix to improve your account. With the Critical Script Analysis methodology you can:

  • Identify high priority scripts based on usage.
  • Identify people and departments triggering scripts to focus on scripts that could be inappropriately triggered.
  • Understand script execution times.

Intelligent Change Management​

Platform Governance for NetSuite is the only application for NetSuite that enables end to end change management and compliance. This process can be achieved effectively in only 5 weeks after install.

Platform Governance for NetSuite enables you to:

  • Track all changes to custom objects in NetSuite.
  • Automatically be alerted to non-compliant changes.
  • Set compliance requirements by risks based on System Complexity and Processes that are then automatically tracked.
  • Manage changes right in NetSuite by using the Change Request.
  • Use automated impact analysis to identify the risks associated with changing custom objects.
  • Use test records to manage tests in a central repository linked to the customization records.

Enterprise Compliance​

After Intelligent Change Management is complete, it only takes between 3 to 4 weeks to achieve Enterprise Compliance.

Environment Comparison​

The Environment Management Module enables NetSuite customers and consultants to identify differences between any two NetSuite accounts that have Platform Governance for NetSuite Intelligent Change Management installed. Because both accounts have Platform Governance for NetSuite documentation in place, the tool can compare them quickly. It is primarily used in four scenarios:

  1. Sandbox Refreshes
  2. Migrating Customizations Between Developer and Sandbox Accounts
  3. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Performance Testing Environment Validation
  4. Deploying Changes to Production

Automated Audit​

Agent automates IT and financial controls and critical change practices to ensure configuration and master data are compliant. It can:

  • Check for process problems regularly without user event scripts.
  • Automatically generate and assign tasks, cases, or process issues for each detected problem.
  • Automatically alert key stakeholders.
  • Log control violations for clearance.
  • Store relevant data as a CSV to create a snapshot for compliance or troubleshooting purposes.
  • Block unauthorized changes to critical records and fields (requires Advanced Change Management).