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Chronos (Asys): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Chronos is time-and-activity management and scheduling software from Asys, a French HR software publisher. It targets large private and public organisations, including hospitals and local authorities, and covers working time, leave and absences, activity tracking, physical and virtual time clocks, automatic and optimised scheduling, manager and employee portals, business-intelligence reporting and an optional API pack. Asys also offers So'Horsys, a turnkey time-management product.

Asys is a French SAS with its registered office in Lyon; no parent company or investor is named on its website. The site does not say whether Chronos is delivered as a cloud service or installed on-premise, nor where hosted data would be stored. Because the software handles employee working-time and absence data, ask the vendor about the delivery model, hosting location and data-processing terms.

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 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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European alternatives to Chronos (Asys)

The European alternatives to Chronos (Asys) come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Chronos (Asys)

Chronos (Asys) is headquartered in France 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 Chronos (Asys) scores best on data residency.

Chronos (Asys) 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 Chronos (Asys) 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 Chronos (Asys)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Chronos (Asys) include absence.io, AFAS and AlexisHR. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Chronos (Asys)?

Our list of EU alternatives to Chronos (Asys) is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Chronos (Asys) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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