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easy Software: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

easy is a German brand of enterprise content management and document management software, with products such as easy DMS, easyarchive, easyinvoice, easycontract and easyhr, plus SAP add-ons. Organisations use it to archive documents, process invoices and manage HR records. The vendor offers on-premises, private cloud, cloud-native and hybrid deployment and states, in its own words, that its archiving and HR data handling comply with GoBD, ISO 27001 and the GDPR.

The brand belongs to conrizon AG, based in Essen, Germany; the vendor's site does not state who holds conrizon's shares, so ownership cannot be confirmed from it. For hosted offerings the site shows a 'software hosted in Germany' label without data-centre details. For a European organisation, the German supplier and the on-premises or private-cloud options allow archives to stay under the customer's own control. Hosting location, support access and open-source status (not stated) should still be confirmed in the contract.

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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 10, 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
NoVendor-stated
Category
Document Management (DMS)
Type
Product
Website
easy-software.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to easy Software

The European alternatives to easy Software 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 easy Software

easy Software 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 easy Software scores best on data residency.

easy Software 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 easy Software 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 easy Software?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to easy Software include agorum, AMAGNO and BlueSpice. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to easy Software?

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

Is easy Software GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

easy Software is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes easy Software 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 10, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Document Management (DMS)

Document Management (DMS): Document management systems, archiving, workflows and digital records. 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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