Open Source Implementation · Based in Johannesburg, Serving Worldwide

Stop Paying Licence Fees for Software You Can Own

Enterprise-grade open source alternatives exist for almost everything you pay licence fees on. We implement, migrate, and maintain them.

What Are You Overpaying For?

Real licence costs SA businesses pay. The open source alternatives exist, are production-grade, and run on your own infrastructure.

SalesforceREPLACEABLE

R1,500+/user/month

R180,000+/year (10 users)

Replace with: SuiteCRM
Microsoft 365 BusinessREPLACEABLE

R200+/user/month

R24,000+/year (10 users)

Replace with: LibreOffice + Nextcloud
Zendesk SuiteREPLACEABLE

R1,800+/agent/month

R216,000+/year (10 agents)

Replace with: Zammad
Tableau CreatorREPLACEABLE

R3,000+/user/month

R180,000+/year (5 users)

Replace with: Metabase
VMware vSphereREPLACEABLE

R8,750+/month

R105,000+/year

Replace with: Proxmox VE
Oracle DatabaseREPLACEABLE

R73,333+/month

R880,000+/year

Replace with: PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL ServerREPLACEABLE

R23,750+/month

R285,000+/year

Replace with: PostgreSQL / MariaDB
SolarWinds NPMREPLACEABLE

R7,500+/month

R90,000+/year

Replace with: Zabbix + Grafana
Zoom BusinessREPLACEABLE

R330+/user/month

R39,600+/year (10 hosts)

Replace with: Jitsi Meet
FortiGate NGFWREPLACEABLE

R2,333+/month

R28,000+/year

Replace with: pfSense CE / OPNsense
Sage Business CloudREPLACEABLE

R450+/month

R5,400+/year

Replace with: Odoo Accounting
ServiceNowREPLACEABLE

R2,000+/month

R24,000+/year

Replace with: GLPI

200+ products covered in our full savings calculator →

Why Not Just Install It Yourself?

Open source is free to download. Making it work in production is the hard part.

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Data Migration

We extract, transform, and load your CRM contacts, financial records, and user accounts. Nothing gets lost.

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Integration

SSO, payment gateways, APIs, email servers. We wire your open source tools into your existing systems.

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Team Training

Hands-on training until your team is comfortable. Not a PDF nobody reads.

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Security & Updates

We handle security updates, hardening, and monitoring. Open source doesn't mean set and forget.

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Proper Deployment

Backups, monitoring, redundancy, and documentation. Built for production, not a side project.

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Ongoing Support

Ongoing maintenance so you're not Googling error messages when your business is down at 2am.

Migration Case Studies

Real migrations. Real savings.

MSP replaces ManageEngine suite
Before

R35K/month across ManageEngine OpManager, ServiceDesk Plus, and Endpoint Central. Per-device licensing scaling with every new client.

After

Zabbix + Grafana, Zammad, Fleet + Ansible. Self-hosted. Monthly cost: R2K. Annual saving: R396K. No per-device limits.

Migrated with: Zabbix, Grafana, Zammad, Fleet, Ansible, Docker Compose
Small business ditches Microsoft 365 + Zendesk
Before

15-person company paying R30K/month for Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Zendesk Suite Professional.

After

Nextcloud, LibreOffice, Zammad. Monthly cost: R1,225. Annual saving: R345K. Nobody has asked for Microsoft back.

Migrated with: Nextcloud, LibreOffice, Zammad, Docker, S3 backups
SaaS startup moves from Salesforce to SuiteCRM
Before

8 sales reps on Salesforce Enterprise at R12K/user/month. R96K/month, 70% of features unused.

After

SuiteCRM on AWS. All pipelines, workflows, and dashboards recreated. Monthly cost: R800. Annual saving: R1.14M.

Migrated with: SuiteCRM, AWS EC2, Let's Encrypt, custom API integrations

How We Migrate Your Business

No surprise downtime. No lost data. Your team keeps working throughout.

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Audit

We inventory your paid software, map the workflows, and identify open source replacements.

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Plan

Migration plan with timelines, costs, and risk mitigation. You approve everything before we start.

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Migrate

Full setup, data migration, and integration. Both systems run in parallel until the cutover is clean.

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Support

We maintain the infrastructure, apply security updates, and support your team post-launch.

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200+ proprietary products with ZAR pricing. Tick what you pay for. Get the number.

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Works Better Together

These services make sure your open source savings stick.

Ready to Cut Your Software Bill?

Tell us what you're paying for. We'll show you what the migration saves and what it costs.

Most customers break even within 6 months.