# Open Core Vendors

Distribute your software to complex customer-managed K8s environments

Seed the market with free open source distributions

Upgrade customers to premium editions

Efficiently manage customer success

## YOU'LL BE IN GOOD COMPANY WITH REPLICATED

## Replicated solves multiple problems for Software Vendors.

- Lost revenue opportunities due to customer on-prem requirements

- Reach customers concerned about latency, privacy, and security
- Cost of building and maintaining tooling for on-prem and air gap

- Deliver a fast time-to-live installation in any K8s environment
- Inconsistent releases, manual licensing, and difficult updates

- Align your on-prem software versions with your SaaS products

## How does Replicated work?

Key features for Open Core Vendors:

## Installation

Distribute your application to existing Kubernetes clusters (or create new ones) on customer-managed infrastructure

## Air gap environments

Create one-line install commands and zipped applications, updates, and support logs for air gap locations

## Version management

Define releases, couple them with K8s distributions, and deliver automated updates with semantic versioning

## Why should you choose Replicated?

You'll be in good company. Replicated has helped hundreds of SaaS companies like you sell more, install faster, and reduce support burden/costs!

## Customer Testimonials

"Thanks to Replicated Community Licensing, we've found a great way to speed up our adoption rate with Wallaroo Community Edition. We've increased our trustability and transparency for anyone in the machine learning and data science community looking to simplify the deployment and management of ML models and pipelines."

— Younes Amar, Head of Product

## Learn more

- **[Testing Releases in Customer-representative Environments](https://www.replicated.com/blog/testing-releases-in-customer-environments)**  
  Automatically test your new releases on truly customer-representative environments—same cloud provider, same Kubernetes distribution and version, and even the same entitlements and configuration.
- **[Helm alone is not enough (for commercial software distribution)](https://www.replicated.com/blog/helm-is-not-enough-for-commercial-software-distribution)**  
  We love Helm! But, using just Helm for commercial software distribution can only take you so far. Luckily, Replicated's new features perfectly complement Helm to supercharge your deployments.
- **[Step-by-Step Guide: Troubleshooting a Failed Deployment Using the Compatibility Matrix](https://www.replicated.com/blog/step-by-step-guide-troubleshooting-a-failed-deployment-using-the-compatibility-matrix)**  
  Our own internal support team utilizes the Compatibility Matrix to re-create unique customer environments. Evans Mungai, Sr. Customer Reliability Engineer, walks through this process.