Why Netos

Network spend is leaking through the gaps between tools.

Networks runs the estate. Finance pays for it. Leadership funds the next move. Nobody works from the same view, and the gaps cost money.

01

Three views of the same problem.

Networks, Finance, and Leadership each feel the same fragmented data, in different ways. The gaps between them are where the money goes.

What Networks sees

Networks

The data behind the estate is fragmented. The team running it knows where things live, but can't prove it in one place.

  • Inventory spread across vendors, ITAM, NMS, and spreadsheets, with nobody fully trusting the device list.
  • Lifecycle and EoX visibility lagging reality, so refreshes and risk reviews are reactive.
  • Engineers losing days to reconciliation, audit, and manual reporting.
What Finance sees

Finance

Network spend is one of the largest line items in IT, but the cleanest version of the truth is a quarterly spreadsheet.

  • Network spend visible at the top line, opaque underneath. Fixed vs variable, CapEx vs OpEx, who pays what.
  • Renewals surprise the budget every quarter because contracts and assets aren't in the same place.
  • Cost allocation hand-stitched in spreadsheets, rarely defensible to TBM or to the board.
What Leadership sees

Leadership

The network funds business outcomes, but the case for investment lands without the evidence to defend it.

  • Investment proposals arrive at the board without a clear ROI story or option comparison.
  • Transformation programmes run on stale data, with weeks lost to manual audit and reconciliation.
  • Refresh vs defer vs replace stays an opinion conversation, not an evidence one.
02

Why existing tools don't solve this together.

Each system on its own works. Together they leave Networks, Finance, and Leadership unable to answer the questions the board actually asks.

CMDB and ITAM lack network depth

Asset registers were built for laptops and licences. They don't model chassis, modules, transceivers, support contracts at the SKU level, or EoX timelines.

Network tooling is built for ops, not commercial

NetBox, SolarWinds, vendor portals are excellent at running the network. None of them answer 'what does this cost over five years, and what changes if we don't refresh?'

Finance systems know the spend, not the assets

ERP and finance platforms see the invoice. They don't see the device, the circuit, or the service the spend supports, so allocations are guesswork.

FinOps is for OpEx and cloud

FinOps as a discipline matured around cloud spend. On-prem network, still the biggest single line in many IT budgets, was left without an equivalent toolkit.

Spreadsheets are flexible, not governed

The de facto network finance tool today is Excel. It scales until the audit, the refresh, or the supplier change. Then it breaks.

Generic AI tools lack the data model

A chatbot over a CMDB export can summarise. It can't reconcile inventory against contracts, score lifecycle exposure, or generate a defensible business case.

03

What it costs to leave it alone.

The average Fortune 500 company wastes tens of millions in network spend each year, while IT leaders are asked for more availability, more scale, and more performance from the same budget.

$52m

Average annual network waste at a Fortune 500 company.

98%

Of executives say the network is critical to driving business growth.

71%

Say low network maturity is negatively impacting business delivery.

04

What Netos does about it.

Netos creates one technical and financial source of truth across the network estate. Networks gets a trusted inventory. Finance gets defensible spend. Leadership gets evidence-backed plans. AI agents accelerate the work when teams are ready.

  • Technical source of truth, one trusted view of devices, circuits, components, lifecycle, and ownership, reconciled across every source.
  • Financial source of truth, contracts, invoices, suppliers, renewals, and spend, linked back to the technical estate.
  • AI Team on top, Finance, Data, and Engineer agents that accelerate the work, anchored to source-tracked records and human review.