Open Source Implementation · Based in Johannesburg, Serving Worldwide

Stop Paying Licence Fees for Software You Can Own

There's an enterprise-grade open source alternative to almost every piece of software your South African business pays for. We implement it, migrate your data, and maintain it. So it works instead of becoming a mess nobody manages.

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

Your CRM contacts, financial records, helpdesk history, and user accounts don't move themselves. We extract, transform, and load your data so nothing gets lost and nothing breaks.

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Integration

Your open source tools need to talk to your existing systems. SSO, payment gateways, APIs, email servers. We wire everything together so it works as one ecosystem, not isolated islands.

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Team Training

Software your team can't use is software that fails. We train your people on the new tools until they're comfortable. Actual hands-on training, not a PDF nobody reads.

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Security & Updates

Open source doesn't mean set and forget. Vulnerabilities get patched weekly. We handle security updates, hardening, and monitoring so your self-hosted software stays safe.

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Proper Deployment

We deploy on proper infrastructure with backups, monitoring, redundancy, and documentation. Built to run in production, not as a side project.

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Ongoing Support

When something breaks at 2am, you need someone who knows the system. We provide ongoing maintenance and support so you're not Googling error messages when your business is down.

Migration Case Studies

Real migrations. Real savings. This is what it looks like when you stop renting software and start owning it.

MSP replaces ManageEngine suite
Before

Managed service provider paying R35K/month across ManageEngine OpManager, ServiceDesk Plus, and Endpoint Central. Per-device licensing scaling with every new client onboarded. Locked into annual contracts.

After

Migrated to Zabbix + Grafana (monitoring), Zammad (helpdesk), and Fleet + Ansible (endpoint management). All self-hosted on existing infrastructure. Monthly cost dropped to R2K for hosting. Annual saving: R396K. No per-device limits. Every new client is pure margin.

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

15-person company paying R3,285/month for Microsoft 365 Business Standard and R27,000/month for Zendesk Suite Professional. R30K/month for email, office docs, and a helpdesk.

After

Migrated to Nextcloud (file sharing + collaboration), LibreOffice (office suite), and Zammad (helpdesk). Email moved to a R15/user/month provider. Total monthly cost: R1,225. Annual saving: R345K. Team took 2 weeks to adjust. Nobody has asked for Microsoft back.

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

Growing startup with 8 sales reps paying R12,000/user/month for Salesforce Enterprise. R96K/month. Every new hire added another R12K. Pipeline was well-configured but 70% of Salesforce features were unused.

After

Migrated to SuiteCRM on AWS. All pipeline stages, custom fields, and workflows recreated. Email integration, web-to-lead forms, and reporting dashboards rebuilt. Monthly cost: R800 for hosting. Annual saving: R1.14M. Hired 4 more reps with zero additional software cost.

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.

01

Audit

We inventory every piece of software your business pays for, map the workflows that depend on it, and identify exact open source replacements.

02

Plan

We build a migration plan with timelines, costs, and risk mitigation. You know exactly what's changing, when, and what it costs before we touch anything.

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Migrate

We do the full setup, data migration, and integration work. Your team keeps working while we run both systems in parallel until the cutover is clean.

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Support

After go-live, we maintain the infrastructure, apply security updates, and support your team. You're not left holding a system nobody knows how to run.

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Our savings calculator covers 200+ proprietary software products with ZAR pricing. Tick what your business pays for. Get the number.

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Ready to Cut Your Software Bill?

Tell us what software your business currently pays for. We'll calculate exactly what open source alternatives would save you annually and what the migration would cost.

Most customers break even within 6 months.