CIOs are paying the biggest SaaS bills of any department.
Enterprise IT lives on ITSM, observability, identity, collaboration, and security SaaS. ServiceNow, Datadog, Okta, Splunk, PagerDuty, New Relic. All priced per seat or per event. All with mature open source equivalents that meet the same operational bar if deployed by people who know the stack. That's what we do.
Three pains specific to it.
ITSM and observability costs compound with the team
ServiceNow plus Datadog plus Splunk plus PagerDuty for a mid-size IT department quietly runs into seven figures annually.
Identity pricing per-seat
Okta, Ping, and others priced per user with premium tiers for features you probably need anyway. Keycloak and Authentik cover the real workload.
Vendor-sprawl compliance surface
Every SaaS vendor is another POPIA operator agreement, another DPIA, another incident response dependency. Consolidating to self-hosted shrinks the attack surface.
Your typical stack
About R575 640 a year.
IT firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for it
Savings is just the start.
ITfirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
Internal employee data under POPIA
HR records, IT tickets, device inventories. All personal information. Self-hosted keeps the audit trail inside your company.
Incident response time and data residency
SIEM data on foreign cloud is a sovereignty + latency problem. Self-hosted Wazuh + Graylog keeps detection fast and data local.
Board-level cost reporting
CFOs want the SaaS line item to stop growing. We produce the before/after report for the board, with migration costs amortised against rolling savings.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.