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EGroupware: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

EGroupware is a groupware and online office suite from EGroupware GmbH, a German software and cloud hosting company founded in 1996. It is modular, so administrators can control which applications each group uses. Available applications include calendar, contacts, tasks, email, team chat, CRM, projects, timesheets, documents, helpdesk and kanban. A Community Edition and an Enterprise edition exist, and you can move between them without losing data.

You can install EGroupware yourself or use EGroupware Cloud. According to the vendor, the cloud runs in two separate data centres in Frankfurt, and you can switch between them. The software is developed in Germany, emphasises open standards and open source, and its code is published on GitHub. For a European organisation this means data can stay within the EU, either under its own control or with a German provider. No foreign parent company is known.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 2, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
IONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Office & Productivity
Type
Product
Website
egroupware.org ↗

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 EGroupware

The European alternatives to EGroupware 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 EGroupware

EGroupware 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 EGroupware scores best on data residency.

EGroupware is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs EGroupware 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 EGroupware?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to EGroupware include Ashampoo Office, Calligra Suite and Craft Docs. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to EGroupware?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to EGroupware include Calligra Suite, CryptPad, Euro-Office, eXo Platform, Framasoft (Framapad/Framacalc) and grommunio. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

EGroupware is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes EGroupware 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 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Office & Productivity

Office & Productivity: Office software, word processing, spreadsheets and groupware. 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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