Open-source alternative  ·  Collaboration

Replace Microsoft Whiteboard with Excalidraw.

Open source virtual whiteboard for sketching, diagramming, and real-time collaboration. Self-hosted with end-to-end encryption. No Microsoft 365 subscription required.

You'd keep~R13 200/year

Current licence  ·  Collaboration

Microsoft Whiteboard

~R13 200/yr

10-user estimate

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Excalidraw

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R13 200/yr

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Today's licence price

The tier.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate.

M365 Business Basic

R13 200/yr

R110/user/month

With Excalidraw

Keep R13 200/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Microsoft Whiteboard grows around 10% per year on average. Excalidraw hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR6kR12kR17kR23kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R21kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.03M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Microsoft WhiteboardExcalidraw, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other collaboration migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Check the project

Migrate Microsoft Whiteboard.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.