Corteza Project | The Open Source Salesforce Alternative

Welcome to the Corteza Project, the world’s premier open source low-code platform. Take advantage of a platform designed to be the ultimate alternative to Salesforce cloud. Built for organizations seeking enterprise-grade automation, flexibility, and innovation, Corteza empowers businesses to thrive with a powerful, familiar, and cost-effective solution.

Why Choose Corteza?

Open Source Freedom

Corteza is fully open source (Apache v2.0 license), ensuring transparency, control, and freedom from vendor lock-in. Experience a platform that evolves with your needs, powered by a thriving community of contributors and developers.

Salesforce Familiarity

Designed with Salesforce users in mind, Corteza provides a seamless transition with:

Similar Build Logic: Leverage intuitive tools and workflows that Salesforce administrators and developers already know.
Familiar User Experience: Enable your team to hit the ground running with an interface and functionality that feels like home.

Comprehensive Feature Set

Corteza supports the majority of Salesforce Standard Objects and delivers enterprise automation capabilities, including:

Custom object creation and management
Robust workflows and automation
Analytics and reporting

Seamless Integration

Effortlessly connect Corteza with your existing systems to build a fully integrated digital ecosystem. Take advantage of Corteza’s native integration with Salesforce Unified Search to ensure continuity and enhanced functionality across platforms.

Modern Architecture and Code Base

Corteza’s backend is built in Golang, the multi-threaded computing language developed by Google to build and manage its application infrastructure. Its front end is written in Vue.js, a lightweight JavaScript framework. Corteza uses W3C standards and formats wherever possible and all Corteza components are accessible via RestAPI. Corteza is cloud-native and deploys via Docker containers.

Transform Your Business with Corteza, a Leader Amongst Salesforce Competitors

Scalable and Customizable

Corteza adapts to organizations of all sizes and industries. Tailor workflows, data models, and user experiences to align with your unique business processes.

Cost-Effective

As an open source alternative, Corteza eliminates the high licensing costs of proprietary software. Redirect your budget to innovation and growth instead of recurring fees.

Community-Driven Innovation

Join a vibrant community of developers and organizations who are shaping the future of enterprise software. Access regular updates, share insights, and contribute to a platform built for collaboration.

Take control of your digital future with the leading open source Salesforce alternative. Corteza: Powerful. Flexible. Yours.

Corteza was created by Planet Crust, which continues to maintain and develop Corteza and is Corteza’s primary contributor. Planet Crust offers support and development services for Corteza.

Aire is an AI-powered data model builder that makes building apps on Corteza faster and easier than ever. Get an Aire subscription to export your config files and import them into your own instance of Corteza.

Latest News

Release

Corteza 2021.3.9 released

Corteza 2021.3.9 has been released, and includes the following updates and improvements: Corteza Server Workflow stability improvements External authentication provider registration fixes Corteza JS libraries Fixed broken $authUser and authToken

Corteza 2021.3.8 released

Corteza 2021.3.8 has been released, and includes the following updates and improvements: Corteza Server Fixed XSS sanitization on text fields Fixed workflow boot-time race condition with settings notification Workflow handler closure fix Refactored workflow execution – race condition prevention

Corteza 2021.3.7 released

Corteza 2021.3.7 has been released, and includes the following updates and improvements: Corteza Server Fixed record updating for modules with deleted fields Fixed interaction between read-only module fields and their default values Added validation for Corredor workflow steps Improved record value manipulation from inside workflows

100% Open-Source Low-Code Platform

Rapid Application Development. Business Process Worflows. Integration Management. Data Hamonization.

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Corteza Platform

Corteza makes it easy to build native web apps and expand your third-party software ecosystem with complete flexibility, freedom and control over your platform and everything you build on it.

Build unlimited apps

Create unlimited web applications and process workflows using block-based tools and Javascript automations in a fraction of the time of traditional coding.

Deploy and redeploy

Deploy applications and workflows instantly, iterate and redeploy as much as you want.

Access all of Corteza’s code

Corteza is 100% open source. Every single piece of Corteza code is published and can be reviewed at https://github.com/cortezaproject.

Connect with any record data source

Integrate with data from any machine-readable system or database, regardless of format, across and between instances.

Retain full ownership rights

Use, modify, distribute or sell Corteza or apps built with it under your own license and trademark for free with no obligation to publish your modified code.

Transform your data

Transform all data into a standardized JSON format to create data models for app and worflows or to federate out.

Free forever

All Corteza code is contributed to the Commons Conservancy Software Foundation so that access to Corteza can never be taken away from you.

Start with Corteza today

Try out Corteza for free, on-premise or in the cloud.

The Corteza project is owned and operated by the Commons Conservancy Foundation, a foundation established under the law of The Netherlands and home for technology efforts in the public interest.

The NGI Zero Discovery Fund has funded the work on Corteza Record Federation and is funding Corteza Discovery.

NGI Zero is a joint not-for-profit effort by 13 organisations, led by the NLnet foundation.

NGI Zero is made possible with financial support from the European Commission‘s Next Generation Internet programme.