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BigTime: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

BigTime is professional services automation (PSA) software for service firms. It covers scoping and quoting, time and expense tracking, resource management, project portfolio management, invoicing and payments, and reporting. BigTime PSA is aimed at growing single-entity firms and BigTime Enterprise PSA at more complex organisations. A QuickBooks integration is available. It is delivered as a cloud service.

The company is BigTime Software, Inc., based in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Vista Equity Partners, a US investor, has made a growth investment. According to the privacy policy, the site is hosted on servers in the United States, personal data may be transferred to the US, and BigTime complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework; the policy describes data-subject rights under the GDPR. As a processor, BigTime acts under its Access Service Agreement. For a European organisation this means time, project and invoicing data sit with a US provider and can fall under the CLOUD Act. It is not open source.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
bigtime.net ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to BigTime

The European alternatives to BigTime come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 BigTime

BigTime is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

BigTime hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

BigTime 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 BigTime 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 BigTime?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to BigTime include askDANTE, Beebole and Clockodo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to BigTime?

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

Is BigTime GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

BigTime is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Time Tracking

Time Tracking: Apps for tracking time spent on tasks and projects. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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