Open-source migration

Migrate once.
Own forever.

Every line of paid software you rent has an open-source equivalent that does the same job. Self-hosted. Yours. We map the stack, run the migration, and stay on to maintain what we build.

Hundreds of products mapped. ZAR pricing. Sourced.

Currently paying

Salesforce

R900,000/yr

You'd keep

SuiteCRM

R900,000 saved/yr

The swap

Click the tile. Watch it flip.

Pick a tool you're paying for. See what you'd run instead, what it costs, and what stops leaving your account.

You're paying  ·  CRM

Salesforce

R1,500+/user/month

R900,000+/yr

Click to flip →

Replace with  ·  CRM

SuiteCRM

R0 licence, self-hosted

You keep R900,000/yr

← Click to flip back

8 of hundreds of tools we replace  ·  pick one above, click to flip

$8.8T

Global OSS economic value

Linux Foundation, 2024

78%

Companies citing lock-in as #1 worry

Flexera, 2024

30%

Enterprises repatriating to on-prem

Barclays CIO Survey, 2024

53%

Cite cost as #1 OSS driver

Red Hat, 2024

Five years of subscription

One line climbs. The other doesn't.

Per-user licences compound at roughly 10% a year. Self-hosted open source compounds at zero. Year by year, the gap widens.

R0kR399kR797kR1196kR1594kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R1449kR45k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R6.67M

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

Why not install it yourself

Open source is free.
Production-ready is not.

Six things a serious migration needs beyond the GitHub README.

EXTRACT

Data Migration

CRM contacts, financial records, user accounts. Extracted, transformed, loaded. Nothing gets lost.

WIRE

Integration

SSO, payment gateways, APIs, email. Your open-source tools plug into what you already run.

TRANSFER

Team Training

Hands-on training until your team is comfortable. No PDFs nobody reads.

MAINTAIN

Security & Updates

Patches, hardening, monitoring. Open-source still needs a team that knows what they're doing.

DEPLOY

Proper Production

Backups, monitoring, redundancy, documentation. Built to survive the second year, not the first demo.

OPERATE

Ongoing Support

We stay on as the team that maintains it, patches it, and grows it with you.

Real migrations

Before and after.

MSP replaces the ManageEngine suite

Before

R35,000/month across ManageEngine OpManager, ServiceDesk Plus, and Endpoint Central. Per-device licensing scaling with every new client.

After

Zabbix + Grafana, Zammad, Fleet + Ansible. Self-hosted. R2,000/month. R396,000 saved annually. Every device covered under one licence.

Stack: Zabbix, Grafana, Zammad, Fleet, Ansible, Docker Compose

15-person business ditches Microsoft 365 + Zendesk

Before

R30,000/month across Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Zendesk Suite Professional. Climbing each January.

After

Nextcloud, LibreOffice, Zammad. R1,225/month. R345,000 saved annually. No one's asked for Microsoft back.

Stack: Nextcloud, LibreOffice, Zammad, Docker, S3 backups

SaaS startup leaves Salesforce for SuiteCRM

Before

8 reps on Salesforce Enterprise at R12,000/user/month. R96,000/month, with roughly 70% of the feature set untouched.

After

SuiteCRM on AWS. Every pipeline, workflow, dashboard rebuilt. R800/month. R1.14M saved annually.

Stack: SuiteCRM, AWS EC2, Let's Encrypt, custom API integrations

Free tool

See your number in thirty seconds.

Hundreds of proprietary products with ZAR pricing. Tick what you pay for. Watch the savings tick up.

Open the calculator →

What sits next to this.

Services that keep open-source savings stuck after the migration ships.

Tell us what you're paying.
We'll show you what you'd keep.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your stack, surface the real licence costs, and show you what the migration looks like in time and rand.

Most clients break even within 6 months.