Anakeen offers a platform for building business applications that combine document management and collaborative workflows. easyAP4 is the no-code variant, in which staff without programming skills configure forms, data models, role-based access rights and calculation rules themselves. AP4 (Anakeen Platform 4) is the development environment in which developers, often Anakeen's own teams, build bespoke applications. easyAP4 is available as SaaS and as an on-premise installation. The platform runs on technologies such as PostgreSQL, PHP and Vue.js.
Anakeen SAS is a French company with its registered office in Paris; no foreign owner is named. According to the vendor, some components of the platform are open source and others are available under a restricted enterprise licence, while the full source code stays publicly accessible. The website does not say where the SaaS environment is hosted (the corporate website is in a Paris data centre). With on-premise use you keep control of the data yourself.