AI is creating a world of new possibilities for businesses. We see it every day in how our customers are taking advantage of the AI capabilities embedded across NetSuite. But what if you could bring your own AI and decide how it interacts with your data in NetSuite?
I’m excited to introduce the new NetSuite AI Connector Service, a protocol-driven integration service supporting Model Context Protocol (MCP). In case you haven’t heard of MCP, it is emerging as a critical standard for structured communication between large language model (LLM)-powered agents and other systems.
While we call it an integration service, it’s more than that – it’s a foundational step in making NetSuite the most intelligent, extensible, and AI-ready ERP system. The NetSuite AI Connector Service gives customers a secure, flexible, and scalable way to connect their own AI to NetSuite. This is important because it:
- Enables developers to define exactly what their AI system can see and do, with full permissions and role-based access
- Supports multiple assistants and agent platforms in a standards-based way, allowing for a “bring your own AI” model
- Turns complex AI-ERP integrations into modular, reusable SuiteApps, streamlining deployment and lifecycle management
- Aligns AI integrations with NetSuite’s existing extensibility model, eliminating the need for risky workarounds or shadow IT
- Allows partners and ISVs to build, package, and monetise AI-driven SuiteApps, creating a new category of intelligent ERP extensions
What’s more, the NetSuite AI Connector Service will enable NetSuite users to engage with NetSuite data via the user interfaces of popular AI assistants.
Here are more details on why we’re so excited about the new NetSuite AI Connector:
- Sets a new industry standard for AI-ERP integration: While most ERP vendors are adding AI as fixed, embedded features, we are taking a platform-first approach by introducing a protocol-based, extensible architecture. This allows structured, governed, and developer-defined interactions between ERP and external AI systems. It establishes a new benchmark for what enterprise AI integration should look like – secure, flexible, and open – and puts pressure on other vendors to rethink their approach.
- Opens ERP to the agent ecosystem: By enabling integration with third-party AI agent platforms, NetSuite becomes one of the first major ERP systems to support agent-based automation across systems and reinforces our position at the forefront of the agent-driven enterprise software.
- Empowers the SuiteCloud developer and partner ecosystem: Instead of bypassing technical teams with closed AI features, we are putting power into the hands of developers through Custom MCP Tools and the SuiteCloud MCP Server. This creates a new category of intelligent ERP extensions and a new frontier of opportunity for the NetSuite ecosystem.
- Provides customers with long-term flexibility and choice: With support for bring-your-own-AI and an extensible, protocol-based design, we are ensuring our customers gain the freedom to select the AI models and platforms that best align with their evolving needs. This approach enables customers to adapt quickly as technologies advance, ensuring continuous innovation on their terms.
For all these reasons and more, this is a big deal as it reflects a fundamental architectural shift. By exposing ERP data, context, and logic to external AI systems through secure, governed interfaces, we are laying the groundwork for true AI-native ERP: systems that not only automate tasks, but also collaborate with AI to reason, take action, and drive business outcomes.
We will be sharing more details on NetSuite AI Connector Service at SuiteWorld taking place October 6-9 in Las Vegas. If you would like to learn more about how your business can take advantage of it today, please visit NetSuite AI Connector Service.
Contributed by Brian Chess, Senior Vice President of Technology and AI, Oracle NetSuite