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DATAGROUP SE: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

DATAGROUP SE is a German IT service provider for organisations that want their infrastructure, applications and workplaces operated by an external partner. Its service catalogue, branded CORBOX, covers cloud and private cloud environments, SAP services, application management, network services, IT security, collaboration tools and a service desk. A pre-configured package, GOWBOX, targets small and mid-sized businesses. The company also offers IT consulting, automation and an in-house AI platform for automating IT services. Its cloud services are offered as managed operations.

The company is headquartered in Stuttgart, with its address in Pliezhausen in Baden-Württemberg. As a German company, DATAGROUP falls under German and EU law. According to its website, the cloud and private cloud environments run in German data centres and the service is operated in line with the GDPR (DSGVO). The website names no parent company or majority shareholder, so no owner is named. For a European organisation the relevant questions are contractual and operational: which locations and subcontractors apply to support and administrative access, and how the managed service can be ended.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
datagroup.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to DATAGROUP SE

The European alternatives to DATAGROUP SE 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 DATAGROUP SE

DATAGROUP SE 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so DATAGROUP SE scores best on data residency.

DATAGROUP SE 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 DATAGROUP SE 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 DATAGROUP SE?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to DATAGROUP SE include 1984 Hosting, acens and Aiven. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to DATAGROUP SE?

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

Is DATAGROUP SE GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

DATAGROUP SE is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes DATAGROUP SE 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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