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.
R 576K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 9 common it tools
R 518K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
3
Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The it stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical it firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical IT stack
9 tools · R 576K/yr in licences
Replace
New Relic
Infrastructure · R 220K per year
With
SigNoz + Grafana
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 198K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 576K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 58K
Annual savings
R 518K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the it bleed starts
Three things we hear on every it discovery call.
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.
How we handle the it edges