Services
Automate IT operations and hand them over to your team
We work with your admins to make servers rebuildable and test changes before they go live. We can also help with licence changes, migrations and your own software where they pay off. You can commission each service separately, starting with a scoped pilot and an agreed outcome. We can continue supporting your team afterwards.
Overview
Three goals, seven services, ongoing support
You can commission each service separately. Some require groundwork, listed with each outcome. We check what your system needs before making an offer.
When servers are set up individually and only a few people know their setup, changes become risky. Making servers rebuildable and making applications portable introduce versioned configuration and tested changes to your operations. Your admins take over the procedures; you don't need a development team.
Rising licence costs for Windows Server, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server and ageing hardware can make a change worthwhile. Before cloud migration within the EU, replacing server licences or replacing database licences, we compare costs. We carry out these follow-up projects step by step, with a fallback plan.
For companies that build their own applications or have them built. Test versions for your own software make every change checkable before it goes live. The software delivery review shows where things stall on the way there.
After a project, or if your team already has its own automation, we can support your admins for a fixed monthly fee. We remain their point of contact, review changes with them and maintain your CI/CD environment.
Automate operations
Operations your team can rebuild
We make servers and applications rebuildable and involve your admins in the implementation from the start. Your team can then run the procedures themselves, without a development team.
Making servers rebuildable
Together with your admins, we describe servers, networks and settings so they can be rebuilt largely automatically. Changes to that description are checked and traceable. This approach is called infrastructure as code.
For companies whose servers were set up by hand, whose setup exists only in people's heads, and who have no second environment to test in.
Outcome: a first critical server fully described and restorable from that description. At the end, your admin has carried out the rebuild themselves.
No server is a one-off anymore
You can rebuild both test and production environments from the description, reproducibly and much faster than by hand.
Every change is documented and traceable
The change log records who changed what, when and why. You can find the answer without searching through old emails.
Changes are checked before they take effect
Every change follows a fixed procedure: checked automatically, approved by a colleague, then rolled out. Updates can be tried in a test environment first.
Your team carries it on
Your admins work alongside us from the start and run the agreed procedures themselves at the end. When a colleague or a vendor leaves, the infrastructure remains understandable and operable.
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Making applications portable
We package your application and everything it needs to run in a container. It then runs in a consistent environment in test and in live operation, and moving to other servers becomes predictable.
For companies where updates depend on how each individual server is set up, and where 'it works on my machine' is a familiar phrase.
Outcome: one application running as a container, including automated creation of new versions and documentation.
A consistent application environment
The application brings its environment with it. A comparable test environment reduces surprises at switchover.
Updates with a prepared way back
A fixed procedure lets you start a new version or return to the old one without setting aside a whole weekend.
Independent of individual servers
Containers run on any Linux server, in the cloud or in your own data centre. This makes later moves and licence changes easier.
The basis for automated testing
Once the application is packaged, every change can be tested automatically in its own test environment.
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Replace ageing systems
Follow-up projects, when they pay off
Moving to the cloud, Linux or PostgreSQL can save substantial amounts, but these projects also carry the greatest risk. These projects build on rebuildable servers. We check for each system whether and when they pay off, and deliver them step by step with a fallback plan.
Cloud migration within the EU
We move your systems from your server room to providers with data centres in Germany and the EU, removing the need for ageing hardware and its maintenance contracts. Before the move, we compare costs to show whether it pays off.
For companies whose data must stay in the EU and that depreciate their own hardware, pay maintenance contracts or rent servers that are only half used most of the time.
Outcome: one system or application migrated to an EU data centre, including a before/after cost comparison and operations documentation. We check what groundwork your system needs before making an offer.
No more hardware that ages
Depreciation, maintenance contracts and spare parts for your own hardware no longer apply. We calculate whether a rented server at a German hosting provider or a scalable cloud is cheaper for your workload before you commit.
Data stays in the EU
We work with European providers or EU regions, choosing data centres in Germany and the EU to meet your data protection requirements.
No more server room that someone has to look after
The provider handles power, cooling, spare parts and replacement of failed disks. Your team can concentrate on the applications.
Free to move again later
The servers are fully described, applications packaged as containers where it makes sense. A later switch of provider remains possible with manageable effort.
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Replacing server licences
When Windows Server licences take up more budget each year, we move services that don't depend on Windows to Linux step by step. A test run and fallback plan keep operations running. Before starting, we compare migration, licence and operating costs to show whether the switch pays off.
For companies running Windows Server for services that run just as well or better on Linux, including web servers, databases, application servers, file services and internal tools. User management (Active Directory), email (Exchange) or your ERP stay where they are.
Outcome: one system migrated to Linux, documented and in operation, plus a roadmap for the remaining systems. We check what groundwork your system needs before making an offer.
Windows licences go away for these systems
Windows Server licences and client access licences (CALs) are recurring costs. After migration, those costs no longer apply to that system.
Fewer maintenance windows, fewer reboots
Linux systems can be updated while running. The update weekend becomes the exception.
Rebuildable servers for later migrations
The new servers are fully described, services packaged as containers where it makes sense. This makes changes reliable and prepares the systems for a later cloud migration.
No all-at-once switchover
We move one system after another, starting with the lowest-risk one. The old system stays untouched until the switch has succeeded.
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Replacing database licences
Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server are often among the most expensive items in an IT budget. We migrate to PostgreSQL, a mature database with no licence fees. We test the migration thoroughly and prepare a fallback plan.
For companies whose Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server licences take up a significant part of the IT budget and whose applications can also run on PostgreSQL.
Outcome: one database migrated, tested and handed over, including application adjustments.
Often the biggest saving in the IT budget
Oracle and SQL Server licences are among the most expensive line items. PostgreSQL is open source, mature and free of licence fees.
Data and application are checked before the switch
Data structure, data, the program logic stored in the database and the application itself are checked and tested before anything is switched in live operation.
Rollback plan included
The old database keeps running in parallel until the new one has been proven to meet all requirements. Only then do we switch over.
Independent of a single vendor
With PostgreSQL, you avoid licence audits and rising licence prices. It runs everywhere and doesn't tie you to a single vendor.
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Ship your own software safely
For companies that build their own applications
Whether your own team or an agency develops your software, these two services let you check changes before they go live and identify where time is lost along the way.
Test versions for your own software
Every change automatically gets its own clickable test version first. Business users, customers and the team see the result before it goes live.
For companies where business users or customers only see changes after they go live, so problems only surface in production.
Outcome: automatic test versions for one application, created with every change and removed afterwards (prerequisite: making applications portable).
Business users see the change before it goes live
Business users can open the running test version through a link and give feedback immediately. Misunderstandings can be resolved before they become expensive.
Find bugs earlier and fix them more cheaply
Fixing a bug in the test version takes minutes. In production, the same bug costs hours and can lose customers and put strain on your team.
No more fighting over the one test environment
Every change has its own environment. Nobody overwrites someone else's work anymore.
Predictable updates
What worked in the test version works in production, making even Friday updates predictable.
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Software delivery review
We assess how quickly and safely changes to your software reach production. You receive an objective assessment and prioritised actions to guide the next steps.
For companies that build their own software and where releases take a long time, fail often, or nobody knows exactly how secure the path to live operation is.
Outcome: written diagnosis with prioritised actions.
You know where time and money are lost
We measure how long changes take, how often updates fail and where people wait, and show where your team loses time and money.
Security gaps become visible before someone else finds them
We check how you handle passwords and access keys, third-party software, permissions and traceability against common standards.
Actions ranked by benefit and effort
You receive a list of actions ranked by benefit and effort, so you can decide where to start.
A basis for decisions by management and IT
We write the findings in plain language and include effort estimates and expected benefits, making it easier for management and IT to approve the next step.
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Ongoing support
Your team runs it, we support
Your admins run your servers. If you like, we stay at their side afterwards, for a fixed monthly fee shown in the offer. That works after a project with us, and also if your team already runs its own pipelines or automation.
We set aside time each month for questions, check-ins and planning the next system to automate.
We review your admins' changes to the automation before they are rolled out. That way the knowledge in your team keeps growing.
We keep pipelines and automation tools up to date, add new servers and adjust procedures. What applies when something breaks, we agree in the offer.
Process
How every service runs
Whichever service you choose, we always work in the same three steps, followed by ongoing support if you want it. That keeps the risk small and the outcome predictable.
Intro call
15 minutes, free. We go through your situation and clarify whether a pilot makes sense.
Pre-check and offer
A technical pre-check of about an hour, then a fixed-price offer with scope, success criteria, fallback plan and the time your admins need to set aside. Both free.
Pilot implementation
One clearly scoped system is delivered, measured against criteria agreed beforehand. At the end, your team runs the procedure itself. You see the result before deciding on more.
Support (optional)
For a fixed monthly fee, we stay the point of contact for your admins and look after the CI/CD environment.
FAQs
Questions about the services
Where should we start?
Usually with an important server whose failure would hurt. It becomes rebuildable, changes to it get checked, and your admins learn the way of working on a real system. Licence switches and migrations build on that. If you build your own software and it is unclear where the problem lies, the software delivery review is worth doing first.
How do you charge?
The technical pre-check and the fixed-price offer for the starting project are free. Pilots have a fixed scope, and you know the price before we start. Detailed planning across several systems is charged separately. For further steps we agree fixed prices per system or a time budget, whichever fits.
Do we have to change our tools?
No. We work with your existing tools: GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Proxmox, VMware, cloud or your own data centre. If your team doesn't use version control yet, we set it up as part of the project. We only recommend a switch when it clearly pays off.
What about our existing IT provider?
We are happy to work with them and agree responsibilities up front. We don't take over running your servers; if you like, we support your team and look after the CI/CD environment. Your company should understand and own the change, whoever operates it later.
Can we commission ongoing support without a project first?
Yes. If your team already runs its own pipelines or automation, we look at the environment first and then agree scope and monthly fee.
Which service fits your situation?
We discuss which service fits in a free 15-minute intro call, without obligation.