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Costs and migration planning

Build a budget covering transition, training, operations and retained licenses. Use your own figures in the calculator and compare the result with the capabilities you need to preserve.

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Current state · annual
Future state · annual
Transition · one time

Include only costs additional to annual items under parallel operation; avoid double counting.

Current TCO = years × current annual cost. Future TCO = transition + years × future annual cost. Savings = current TCO − future TCO. Constant costs, excluding inflation, tax and financing. This is not a quote or a savings guarantee.

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Costs and migration planning

  1. ArcGIS · QGIS · PostGIS

    What an ArcGIS to QGIS and PostGIS migration costs in Colombia

    Calculate ArcGIS migration TCO with retained licenses, labor, overlap, annual cash flow and sensitivity, using reproducible COP examples.

  2. ArcGIS · QGIS

    Public open GIS cases: how to interpret savings

    Read sourced QGIS adoption and migration evidence from Dominican IGN, Cornare, St. Joseph County and Barrow without overstating savings.

  3. ArcMap · ArcGIS Pro · QGIS

    ArcMap retirement: migration options without losing the workflow

    Plan after ArcMap’s March 1, 2026 retirement: inventory MXD, data and scripts, compare QGIS with ArcGIS Pro, and control coexistence.

  4. ArcGIS · QGIS · PostGIS · GeoServer

    A phased ArcGIS to Open GIS migration plan

    Execute an ArcGIS migration through inventory, architecture, pilot, change reconciliation, cost review, reversible batches and measured retirement.