Neta Open Suite: the Cloud-Native Platform Transforming the Future of Utilities

In the Energy & Utilities sector, the rapid pace of technological evolution and the increasing complexity of services require platforms capable of ensuring agility, resilience and true scalability.

Neta Open Suite was designed precisely for this purpose: a cloud-native platform built to support today’s operational needs while anticipating those of tomorrow, combining the reliability of Engineering technology with the power of leading international cloud providers.

Cloud First by design: the power of Azure and Oracle Cloud infrastructure

Engineering’s Neta platform is designed according to a Cloud First approach, leveraging managed services and cloud-native components from Microsoft Azure and, for selected strategic modules, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This approach provides customers with:

• immediate scalability to manage operational peaks (e.g. month-end closing periods);
• enterprise resilience, thanks to a redundant and geographically distributed architecture;
• best-in-class performance, even with millions of POD/PDR points or growing data volumes;
• advanced security, with end-to-end encryption, application firewalls, IPS/IDR/EDR systems and compliance with NIS2 and SOC2.

The combined support of Microsoft and Oracle, strengthened by strategic partnerships, enables Neta to deliver cloud services with a level of enterprise reliability that exceeds that of traditional on-premise installations.

A platform built to scale

Neta’s architecture fully leverages microservices, containers and Azure Kubernetes Service, ensuring elastic and automated scalability. The platform adapts to the customer’s business, growing alongside data and transaction volumes without interruptions or the need for manual intervention.

Thanks to these technologies, Neta delivers consistent performance even during the most critical operational phases through:

• dynamic scalability via Horizontal Pod Autoscaling;
• transparent management of variable workloads, distributed users and large datasets;
• the ability to process massive volumes in reduced timeframes (e.g. billing for millions of supply points).

Native security, guaranteed compliance

In the cloud, security is not optional. This is why Neta natively integrates:

• strong authentication (MFA) and Zero Trust;
• identity management with Azure AD B2C and OpenID/SAML federation;
• continuous monitoring with structured logs, granular access controls and audit trails;
• advanced perimeter protection through WAF, Defender for Containers and Azure policies. In addition, the platform complies with the main international security standards: ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, SOC2.

A simple, transparent and cost-effective SaaS model

With Neta, customers adopt a pure SaaS model that reduces complexity and management costs, optimising TCO and freeing up internal time and resources through:

• automatic and continuous updates, with no downtime;
• a pay-per-use or subscription model, proportional to actual usage;
• the elimination of upfront investments in hardware or licences;
• maintenance, security and compliance managed directly by Engineering.

Cloud to integrate, not to replace

Being Cloud also means being interoperable.

The Neta platform integrates a best-in-class API Manager, providing:

• full lifecycle API Management (monitoring, throttling, versioning);
• ready-to-use connectors for ERP, CRM, IoT, BI and third-party systems;
• support for major standards (REST, JSON, OData, OpenAPI, MQTT, XML);
• integrated Developer Portal, AI Assistant and DevTools.

The platform does not create lock-in, but rather extends the customer’s IT ecosystem, facilitating its modernisation.

Cloud as a driver of continuous innovation

Neta fully leverages the potential of the cloud to enable:

• AI-driven services and machine learning;
• intelligent process automation (workflow engine, orchestration, AI agents);
• new data-driven services based on the Neta Lakehouse, the platform’s Single Source of Truth;
• advanced BI, analytics and customisable KPI tools.

An ecosystem capable not only of managing day-to-day operations, but also of creating new value.

Thanks to an open, scalable and secure architecture, Neta Open Suite meets the needs of modern Utilities with an approach that combines innovation, reliability and interoperability, supporting customers throughout a continuous evolution journey.

Neta is not just a Cloud platform. It is the digital foundation on which to build the future of Utilities.