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WeTransfer vs. Nextcloud - The Best WeTransfer Alternative for Businesses (GDPR-Compliant and Open Source)
Many businesses face the question: How can large files be exchanged securely, efficiently, and in a GDPR-compliant manner? Services like WeTransfer are simple, but they quickly...

OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch: Search Without Vendor Lock-in
Enterprise search is business-critical today - and this is where you don't want to risk unexpected restrictions or dependencies on individual providers. But that's exactly...

Chat Control: These alternatives are available for companies
Update July 10, 2026: The EU regulation on "preventing and combating child sexual abuse" - better known as Chat Control - has taken a new...

Twenty CRM update: new features up to version 2.0 and skipping versions on upgrade
At WZ-IT, we use Twenty CRM ourselves as our central customer management system. It is lean, modern, completely open source and fits perfectly with our...

How We Saved Companies Up to 90% on Cloud Costs – Focus on AWS EC2 & RDS
Many of our customers come to us with exactly this problem: AWS bills that explode month after month. EC2 (compute) and RDS (databases) in particular are almost...

BookStack as a Knowledge Management Platform in Healthcare
More and more companies in the healthcare sector - including patient care, nursing services and psychiatric facilities - are asking us for solutions for better...
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