The software bill that nobody audits.
Mining stacks run heavy: enterprise ERP, CAD, shift management, safety compliance (MHSA), environmental reporting, reserve modelling. A lot of it is bought once and renewed forever on auto-pilot. We find the stack items where the licence fee outweighs the value and replace them with open source equivalents that meet the same compliance bar.
R 1.59M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 6 common mining tools
R 1.43M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The mining stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical mining firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Mining stack
6 tools · R 1.59M/yr in licences
Replace
SAP Business One
ERP · R 420K per year
With
Odoo ERP
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 378K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 1.59M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 159K
Annual savings
R 1.43M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the mining bleed starts
Three things we hear on every mining discovery call.
ERP and CAD seats priced per user, per year
SAP, SYSPRO, AutoCAD, SolidWorks licences compound across head office, surface operations, and contractors. Enterprise-wide, it adds up fast.
Specialist software with lock-in pricing
Reserve modelling, grade control, and ventilation simulation software with multi-year contracts and mandatory upgrades. Open source alternatives cover a meaningful portion of the workload.
Compliance reporting across regulators
MHSA, DMRE, environmental authorities — each needs its own audit trail. Self-hosted document management makes the paper trail defensible and cheap.
How we handle the mining edges