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Easy8: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Easy8, formerly Easy Redmine and Easy Project, is project and work management software built as an extension of the open-source Redmine. It supports agile (Scrum, Kanban) and waterfall planning with Gantt charts, task tracking, resource management, project budgets, time tracking, a helpdesk with SLA management, a knowledge base and optional AI assistants. Teams in IT, engineering and manufacturing, among others, use it. Easy8 can run on-premises, on a managed server or in a private or global cloud, and offers an API and integrations.

Easy8 Group, founded in 2006, presents the product as made in the EU. Easy8 is proprietary: the source code is not freely available under an open-source licence, although it builds on Redmine. For the cloud options, the vendor lists hosting locations worldwide, several of them in the EU, and customers choose the region. According to the vendor, data located in the EU does not leave the EU. On-premises and air-gapped installations keep data on the customer's own infrastructure. The vendor reports ISO/IEC 27001 and 27017 certification. Organisations should specify an EU location in their contract.

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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, OTHER)
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	CZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Project Management
Type	Product
Website	easy8.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 Easy8

The European alternatives to Easy8 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 Easy8

Easy8 is headquartered in CZ and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Easy8 hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. 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.

Easy8 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 Easy8 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 Easy8?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Easy8 include Arinto, awork and Bitrix24. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Easy8?

Our list of EU alternatives to Easy8 is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Easy8 GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Easy8 is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes Easy8 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 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): easy8.com/solutions/security-data-sovereignty
Security page / trust center: easy8.com/blog/security-overview

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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