CFOS

Helping your customers and you, get more value from sustainability.

45% of a company's carbon footprint comes from IT 1. This creates an exciting opportunity for IT resellers, who can help their customers adopt sustainable approaches to IT and reduce their dependency on hardware sales.

Meanwhile, hardware sales are dwindling as customers run their existing networks longer. Vendors are already realising this, diversifying their product portfolios to include software offerings. Why should it be any different for IT resellers?

Enter CFOS.

Circularity First Operating System acts as a platform for IT resellers to create value beyond hardware. By utilising the sustainability insights within CFOS, resellers can be more relevant with their customers and create new revenue opportunities around the hardware they supply. By reducing your business’ dependency on hardware sales, you can create new recurring revenue opportunities with higher margins and stronger customer relationships

3% More Gross Profit Through Implementing Circular Approaches To IT 2

One of the biggest challenges is bringing the theory to life. CFOS is designed to help you achieve this by you giving you access to data, advisory and insights that make managing your circular approach to IT more efficient.

Demonstrate the impact that your customer's purchasing habits have on their carbon consumption and the savings they can make through remanufactured IT with simple to understand Circular Impact Reports

Get near live pricing and availability of Vendor remanufactured hardware, as well as the ability to add additional revenue through software sales.

Access advisory and training that builds on your team's sustainable IT knowledge, helping them to have more strategic conversations with their customers.

And that’s before you even get to the part where you save the planet.

Circular Impact Reporting

Our Circular Impact Reporting is the culmination of 15 years' worth of data and insight into networking hardware and remanufactured IT.

Take a deep dive into your customer's hardware and report the CO2e that went into producing it, and the CO2e they have avoided by using remanufactured IT.

Partnering with a third party specialist, we’ve been able to produce carbon, minerals and ewaste reporting for individual products.

Features:

Carbon Emissions

Compare the total carbon emissions (tCO2e) for both remanufactured
and new products, along with any savings made.

Raw Materials, Assembly and Transport to supply Emissions

Calculate the breakdown of carbon emissions by category for your customer's products, broken down into remanufactured and new.

e-waste Avoidance

Demonstrate the total amount of electronic waste avoided through remanufactured purchases.

Benefits:

Stand out from your competitors by demonstrating the carbon and cost savings or circular IT.

Get unique cradle to gate insight into the Scope 3 emissions of hardware.

Save time with three click reports for your customers.

Download Sample Report

Market Assessment Tool

Combining real-time demand with historical trends, get up-to-the-minute insight on the market value of hardware.

Features:

Pricing demand insights at a product level

See the average price of products for the past 90 days, as well as insight into price fluctuation and supply and demand.

Compare New v Remanufactured

See potential cost savings of hardware by comparing new, vendor-remanufactured and OEM refurbished products.

Create Watchlists

Know a customer will have specific demands? Track the price of products over time to secure it at the right price. Watch lists are linked directly to Circular Impact Reports.

Benefits:

Take the guesswork out of buying used hardware.

Maximise the value of excess and remanufactured hardware.

Secure the best possible prices for your customers and see the savings of new v Remanufactured hardware.

Vendor Inventory

Realtime insight on the remanufactured hardware that vendors have available and it’s lead times.

Features:

Latest lead times

Get daily lead times and stock levels directly from vendors on remanufactured hardware.

Vendor Certified

Access hardware from major vendors such as Cisco.

Search and Export

Find the lead times for specific products and export it to excel to share across the orgnaisation.

Benefits:

Speed up the sourcing process for your customers.

No more waiting, improve customer satisfaction and managing expectations.

Drive adoption of remanufactured hardware by utilising it to combat long lead times.

Asset Management

Reduce the cost and volume of new IT you are buying.

See the hardware you already have in your organisation, where it is and if it is in use.

Features:

Visibility

Search by part number or location to see what hardware your customers have and where.

Integrated Carbon Reporting

Build reports on the hardware that your customers have in each location.

Price Range

Get insight into the value of hardware across customer’s networks.

Benefits:

Create recurring revenue managed services around asset management.

Create location specific reporting for customers, based on their geos.

Add value to your customers by reallocating hardware elsewhere.

Software Licensing

Purchase the licensing you need directly through CFOS, without needing to go through a distributor.

Features:

Make sourcing simple

Simple search function takes the complexity out of sourcing licenses for your customer's products.

Manage licensing terms and renewals

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See what licenses your customers have and when they expire.

Benefits:

Create upsell and cross sell opportunities on top of your hardware sales.

Open up high-margin, repeat revenue streams with customers.

Stand out from the competition and improve customer satisfaction with a one-stop shop approach.

Hardware as a Service

Generate recurring revenue and offer customers flexible payment options.

Developed with Cisco Capital, customers pay for hardware as needed.

Features:

Manage Your Deals Easily

View all of your customers’ hardware within CFOS.

Carbon Reporting

We’ll give you ESG metrics from our industry-leading carbon reporting tool, CFOS.

Benefits:

Reduce the complexity of forecasting sales by moving to a repeat revenue model.

Vendor remanufactured hardware offers the opportunity for greater margins.

Create high value professional services around hardware consumption.

Network Architecture

Move from supplying hardware to providing networking expertise, without having to hire a single architect.

Training and sourcing network architects can be difficult for IT service providers, meaning they are missing out on high-margin consultancy work while chasing hardware sales.

Whitelabeling our Network Architecture service enables you to act as a trusted partner with your customers and open up new revenue opportunities. Our Network Architects slot directly into your business, helping you design cost-effective solutions that balance performance and sustainability for your customers.

Features:

Design

Work with your customers on the design of new networks across campus, data centres, and WAN.

Review

Need a second opinion? Our team can review existing architectures and make recommendations on solutions that blend efficiency, performance, and sustainability.

Vendor Agnostic

Our architects are vendor-agnostic, meaning you can start building solutions for your customers regardless of whether they are using Cisco, Juniper, or VMware.

Benefits:

Unlock new revenue streams with high-margin consultancy services.

Expand services without hiring additional network architects.

Enhance customer trust by offering tailored, sustainable network solutions.

Learning Zone

As your customers become more savvy around sustainability, IT Service Providers need to make sure they are upskilling their teams appropriately. Becoming an expert in sustainable IT doesn’t happen overnight, which is why we created the CFOS Learning Zone.

The CFOS Learning Zone takes 15 years of insight and knowledge into sustainable IT and turns it into easy to digest learning for your teams. This enables them to advise on hardware and solutions that open new opportunities for your business that positively impact your customers and the planet.

Features:

Ever-expanding content library

Track your teams learning journey.

Engagement Insights

Assign videos to users and see what content has been viewed across your organisation, broken down by category and type.

Benefits:

Upskill your teams in sustainability and broaden the depth of solutions they can offer to customers.

Equip customer-facing teams with the knowledge and insight they need to be confident in talking sustainability with customers.

Access 15+ years of Sustainable IT insight, without needing to be a subject matter expert.

What makes CFOS so great?

We’ve also combined our data with that from industry technology exchanges, to produce historic and real time data pricing trends on these products.

This permeates throughout the platform, helping users to shape their advisory journey, know the value of their hardware on the secondary market and get up to date insight into vendor-certified, remanufactured hardware availability.

Are you ready to get started?

Footnotes

1. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-green-it-revolution-a-blueprint-for-cios-to-combat-climate-change

2. Based on feedback from Circularity First customers