Press Release
Tokyo, June 2nd, 2026
Nexedi KK (Japan) and Netframe.co (France) successfully carried out a critical migration for Syngenta Japan, transitioning from a proprietary Drupal-based PaaS to an open source PaaS hosted in Japan on open source hardware — completed in just 10 weeks. The new platform faithfully replicates the behaviour of the previous solution hosting Syngenta's key product information, while significantly reducing long-term costs and increasing operational flexibility.
The Solution
Nexedi KK and Netframe.co followed steps that can be replicated by any companies facing strong vendor lock-in with proprietary cloud application programming interfaces (API) or Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Step 1: mapping of existing proprietary cloud process, such as the list of APIs or PaaS components involved in the system.
Step 2: replication of mapped proprietary cloud processes to SlapOS open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) supporting 400+ components or stacks with global Content Distribution Network (CDN) including China.
Step 3: migration of Web Portal source code to SlapOS built-in Drupal stack, including advanced search component supporting Japanese language search without any discrepancies compared to the previous proprietary Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Step 4: export and import of product database into open source Platform as a Service (PaaS), switch to Rapid.Space hosting with 10 minutes disruption.
The Outcome
Zero data loss — full website and database content reproduced with no loss of content or structure.
Search parity confirmed — all 20 Japanese test queries returned identical results in Elasticsearch as in the original implementation.
Vendor independence achieved — the site now runs on a fully open-source, SlapOS-managed stack with no proprietary platform dependencies.
Digital Sovereignty achieved — the site now runs on Open Computer Project’s open source hardware hosted in Japan.
On-time delivery — the project was completed within the agreed timeline, with DNS cut-over completed smoothly.
Production-grade reproducibility — SlapOS packaging ensures the deployment can be rebuilt from scratch on any infrastructure at any time, and that all lifecycle automation facets, included disaster recovery, are tested daily.
Taiki Fukunaga, Director of IS at Syngenta Japan, comments: "It was a surprise for us that migration to open source would be so fast and without any difference in the application behaviour, despite the complexity of search functions in Japanese language. This migration teaches us that many features of cloud computing are actually much easier to implement in open source than what hyperscalers have made the industry believe for a decade."
Yusei Tahara, CEO of Nexedi KK, explains: "This migration is a strong example of what open-source infrastructure can deliver at an enterprise level. By moving Syngenta off a proprietary platform and onto SlapOS, we have given them full control of their web presence — with the same performance and reliability they expect, and greater freedom for the future."
Valentin Przyluski , CEO of Netframe.co, adds: "The technical complexity of replicating Japanese-language search behaviour exactly — query by query, result by result — was the heart of this project. Our team is proud to have delivered a solution that Syngenta could validate with confidence before going live."
Jean-Paul Smets, CEO of Rapid.Space concludes: "Rapid.Space is one of the few international clouds with a point of presence both in Japan and in China. Our edge computing technology facilitates deployment of more points of presence than traditional clouds.
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Contacts
Yusei Tahara, Nexedi KK, Tel: +81(0)-804068-9210, Email: yusei (at) nexedi (dot) com
Jean-Paul Smets, Nexedi Group , Tel: +33(0)-6-29-02-44-25, Email: jp (at) nexedi (dot) com
About Syngenta Crop
Syngenta is a global leader in agricultural innovation with a presence in more than 90 countries. Syngenta is focused on developing technologies and farming practices that empower farmers, so they can make the transformation required to feed the world’s population while preserving our planet. Its bold scientific discoveries deliver better benefits for farmers and society on a bigger scale than ever before. Guided by its Sustainability Goal, Syngenta is developing new technologies and solutions that support farmers to grow healthier plants in healthier soil with a higher yield. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
About Nexedi KK
Nexedi is an open-source software publisher, best known for SlapOS — a distributed cloud deployment platform used in mission-critical environments worldwide, for ERP5 — an open source ERP/CRM used by multiple Japanese corporations, and for Wendelin — an open source data engineering platform deployed for energy companies. Nexedi KK is solely responsible for the production infrastructure on this project.
More information: https://www.nexedi.com/ja/
About Netframe.co
Netframe.co is an open source software publisher specialised in critical infrastructure. Long term user of SlapOS Netframe.co acts also as an integrator on specialist contract.
About SlapOS
Born in 2009, SlapOS is the only Open Source / Free Sofware solution for edge computing that has been deployed commercially and successfully. Based on a Hyperconverged Orchestration System (HyOS) that consistently integrates provisionning, devops, accounting, billing, monitoring, orchestration and automated disaster recovery, SlapOS can be used to implement in a few days or weeks public clouds, distributed mesh clouds, big data clouds, hyperconverged infrastructures, IoT appstores, 4G/5G networks or edge computing. SlapOS technology is at the core of Teralab, a big data platform that was awarded by the Big Data Value Association and used by dozens of multinational corporations. SlapOS has been deployed together with ERP5 at Airbus, Mitsubishi, Aide et Action, Capago, etc.
More information: http://slapos.nexedi.com
About Rapid.Space
Rapid.Space is a resilient 5G edge cloud operator whose international, fully open infrastructure is based on the principles of openness, transparency, portability, and reversibility: open-source software, open hardware, and open operating procedures. As a co-founder of the SimpleRAN initiative and a member of the Open Compute Project, Euclidia, and EANGTI, Rapid.Space is at the forefront of developing a 5G edge computing and 3C network infrastructure capable of addressing the challenges of the splinternet, protecting trade secrets, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
More information: https://www.rapid.space/
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