How Staria went from hesitancy to “you won't believe it before you see it”

We talked with Juhani Mäkirinta from Staria

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Juhani Mäkirinta is the NetSuite Solutions Director at Staria. With over 12 years of experience in NetSuite, he’s been a cornerstone in building Staria’s ERP consulting practice from the ground up. His current role blends deep architectural expertise with leadership, ensuring customer-centric ERP solutions are not just implemented—but crafted.

Staria, founded over 20 years ago, has grown into one of Europe’s leading NetSuite Solution Provider and Global Financial Services Partner. Today, Staria empowers customers in over 40 countries with ERP consulting, payroll, and global accounting services. 

They are experiencing rapid growth.

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‍What Changed for Staria with Salto (that will change for you, too)

1. A massive boost in quality through dependency visibility

Juhani and his team were initially skeptical. “I was probably a bit hesitant then and wanted to see what this is all about.”

But that changed quickly. The turning point came when they realized that Salto could show the web of dependencies between customizations.
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This wasn’t just an internal gain. Staria’s customer delivery leveled up dramatically—work became more consistent, accurate, and repeatable.

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2. From spreadsheets to scalable change management

Before Salto, change management involved workarounds—manual tracking, endless clicking, or sprawling Excel sheets.
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Salto enabled the structure Staria were aspiring for. For long-term clients making continuous changes, Staria can now handle updates in a way that’s more “controlled and fully documented.”
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3. Reversibility, and peace of mind in production

For some clients, who’ve made “no direct production changes” a rule, Salto’s ability to deploy with precision—and roll back fast if something goes wrong—is a game changer.
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Without Salto, as Juhani said, it’s, “almost impossible.”
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4. Visibility into what's broken—before it breaks 

With roles, workflows, and custom forms being tricky to deploy, Salto fills the gap. Even when it can’t fully automate a fix (see update below), it tells you what went wrong and where.
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This level of insight gives Staria the confidence to take on complex work—knowing nothing gets lost in translation between environments.

We heard you, Juhani: 

Salto is actually rolling out the ability to map account specific values between environments automatically
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5. Easy to adopt, and backed by “really great” support

Despite the technical depth, getting started with Salto didn’t require heavy training.

And when questions came up, the support experience stood out.
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“What would you tell NetSuite professionals who are not using Salto?”

Juhani doesn’t hesitate:
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He gets it—many teams, like his once was, are skeptical. They’re used to other solutions, workarounds, manual comparisons, brittle Excel docs, and hoping nothing breaks in production.

But Salto changed how Staria works.

It gave them control, clarity, and confidence. And most importantly, it helped them deliver higher-quality outcomes to their clients—faster, with less risk.

“I would be very, very persuasive to turn around any administrator…you are doing something that could be much easier and simpler.”