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Celonis: sovereignty score and 6 European alternatives

Celonis is a process mining and process intelligence platform for large organisations. Its Data Core extracts event data from systems such as ERP, CRM and other business applications, and the platform shows how processes actually run, where they deviate and where improvements are possible, including simulations and what-if scenarios. A Context Model combines this process data with business knowledge so that people and AI agents can base decisions on it. Celonis is delivered as a web-based software-as-a-service platform.

Celonis SE is a European company headquartered in Munich, Germany, with a second headquarters in New York; the sources consulted name no foreign parent company. According to Celonis documentation, the service runs on Microsoft and Amazon hosting, and a customer's database is generally placed in the customer's own region, so data of European customers is hosted in an EU data centre. The software is proprietary and not open source. European organisations should confirm the cloud provider, cluster and sub-processors in writing.

Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-645
    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
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalFASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryProcess Mining & RPA
TypeProduct
Websitecelonis.com ↗

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 Celonis

The European alternatives to Celonis come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Celonis

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

Celonis hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Celonis 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 Celonis 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 Celonis?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Celonis include QPR Software, Fluxicon Disco and Signavio (SAP). On this page you can compare 6 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Celonis?

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

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

Celonis is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Celonis 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

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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".

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Digital sovereignty in Process Mining & RPA

Process Mining & RPA: Process analysis on system logs, process improvement and robotic process automation of administrative tasks. 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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