EU Sovereignty Score
EU sovereignProcess Mining & RPAHeadquarters: Switzerland

COGNAiO: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

COGNAiO is an agentic process automation platform from the DTI Group. It reads documents, e-mails, images and other data sources, validates the content against business rules and passes results on to existing systems through standard APIs. Behaviour is configured in natural language rather than code, with human approval where a decision needs it. COGNAiO is offered in the vendor's cloud, in the customer's own cloud or data centre, as a hybrid set-up and through the Azure Marketplace.

The DTI Group states its headquarters is in Wil, Switzerland, with further offices in Cologne and Verona; no foreign parent company is stated. According to the vendor, COGNAiO runs on Azure infrastructure within Europe, on request dedicated in Switzerland or Germany, without transfer to third countries. Microsoft is a US company and subject to the US CLOUD Act, even for hosting in Europe, so check which safeguards apply. The on-premise option of Enterprise Extract lets organisations keep documents in their own environment. Switzerland is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision.

Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-390
    Hosting in the EU and Switzerland
  • 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
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU and SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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European alternatives to COGNAiO

The European alternatives to COGNAiO 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 COGNAiO

COGNAiO is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

COGNAiO hosts data in the EU and in Switzerland. Switzerland is covered by a European Commission adequacy decision, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. If you require strictly EU hosting, check the data processing agreement for which data is stored in Switzerland.

COGNAiO 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to COGNAiO?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to COGNAiO include Acodis, ARIS (Software AG) and bupaR. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to COGNAiO?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to COGNAiO include bupaR. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

COGNAiO is headquartered in Switzerland (EFTA) and hosts data in the EU and Switzerland. That makes COGNAiO 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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