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AFAS ERP: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

AFAS is a Dutch provider of business software, offered as an all-in-one ERP platform for organisations of various sizes. The suite covers CRM, finance, HRM, order management, payroll, projects and workflow management, and the vendor presents HRM and payroll as a core strength. It is delivered as one standard package that can be adapted without programming and is accessed through an online login. The vendor also mentions AI-assisted help within the software.

AFAS is headquartered in Leusden, the Netherlands. The software is proprietary, not open source. AFAS states that customers work with their data in Europe under their own control; its public pages name no hosting provider or data centres and refer to the service level and processing agreements for details. For a European organisation this means a Dutch vendor with, according to the vendor, data storage in Europe. Check the exact hosting locations and sub-processors in the processing agreement before signing.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
Hosting signal
LEASEWEB-NL-AMS-01 - LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V., NL (NL)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to AFAS ERP

The European alternatives to AFAS ERP come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with AFAS ERP

AFAS ERP is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so AFAS ERP scores best on data residency.

AFAS ERP is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs AFAS ERP together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to AFAS ERP?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to AFAS ERP include 24SevenOffice, A3ERP and Abacus. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to AFAS ERP?

Our list of EU alternatives to AFAS ERP is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is AFAS ERP GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

AFAS ERP is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes AFAS ERP an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
afas.nl/portal-themapagina/avg-gdpr

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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