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Tools that answer the meeting-stopping questions

Every question a migration decision hits: what's in the estate, what does leaving this vendor cost, does the timeline fit, how locked in are we, and did the rules just change. Everything runs in your browser; nothing requires an account.

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Alternative Finder
"We're leaving. Leaving to what?"
A questionnaire that ranks alternatives to any product in the catalogue, 276 of them across 21 categories. Answer 15 questions about hosting, support, compliance, skills, scale, budget and timeline, add the capabilities you actually need, and it scores every candidate against your constraints and shows its working.
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Exit Toolkit
"The renewal just landed, now what?"
A four-tool module for the moment you actually leave or renegotiate: scan a renewal for lock-in clauses (Renewal Redline), score your exit readiness, estimate cloud egress cost, and check whether your data can even get out. All private, all in your browser.
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Switching Cost Calculator
"What does it actually cost to leave this vendor?"
Pick the vendor you're leaving and it derives the one-time switching cost from that vendor's own lock-in profile, then shows payback and net savings. Every vendor calculates differently; nothing is uploaded.
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VMware exits
RVTools Estate Analyzer
"What in my VMware estate will fight the migration?"
Drop your RVTools .xlsx and get licensing core counts, estate totals, and a blocker report (RDMs, FT, USB dongles, snapshots), parsed entirely in your browser, never uploaded.
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Renewal Deadline Planner
"Can we still migrate before the contract renews?"
Pick any of the 103 published migration paths and your renewal date; the planner back-schedules all six phases from the deadline, gives a verdict, and exports the plan as calendar events.
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3-Year TCO Calculator
"What would leaving actually save us?"
Model source vs. target cost over three years with product-specific sizing units, support tiers, and migration cost included, every figure editable.
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All paths
My Migration Tracker
"Where are we against the plan this week?"
A private workspace saved only in your browser: renewal countdown, back-planned phase schedule, and a checklist you tick off as the migration progresses. No account.
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Research
The Lock-in Index
"How hard is this product to leave, really?"
Original research scoring 150+ commercial products on five lock-in dimensions, licensing power, data portability, proprietary surface, ecosystem, and exit-path maturity, as a browsable heatmap.
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Research
Vendor Price Hike Tracker
"Did my vendor just change the rules?"
A curated, sourced timeline of the licensing and pricing moves that change your exit math: perpetual licenses ending, per-metric repricing, and EOL-forced migrations. Hand-maintained, every entry linked to its source.
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How the tools fit together

If you are starting from a VMware estate, the RVTools reference explains how to produce and read the inventory export the analyzer expects.

They chain in the order a real decision runs. The Alternative Finder comes first and answers the question the rest assume away: given your constraints, which products belong on the shortlist at all. After that, the analyzer (or your own inventory) establishes what you actually have and what blocks; the Lock-in Index calibrates how hard the incumbent will resist; the calculator turns sizing into a 3-year cost comparison; and the renewal planner tests whether the whole thing fits before your contract forces the question. The output of each step is the input to the next, and every migration path page links the relevant guide for execution.

When the decision reaches the sharp end, the contract on your desk and the data in the platform, the Exit Toolkit takes over. Its four tools can be opened directly: Renewal Redline scans contract text for lock-in clauses and missing buyer protections, Exit Readiness scores how prepared you are to leave a given vendor, the egress estimator prices getting your data out of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and the data portability checker answers whether your data can leave in a format something else can read.

Terms used across the tools, from front-end terabyte to core factor to BSL, are defined in the migration glossary, and the assumptions behind every cost model are set out in our methodology.