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Everteam: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Everteam is a French software company, formally Ever Team Software, based in Lyon and part of the Kyocera Document Solutions group. Its IG Suite combines search across several sources (Unified Search and Content Explorer), file analysis to clean up and enrich content, in-place records management and an electronic archiving system. Everteam also offers ID-Archive, an archiving service delivered as SaaS, which it states is certified to NF 461 and provided together with the French third-party archiver Beys. On-premises installations are also possible.

The head office is in France, but the owner is the Japanese Kyocera group. A non-European parent company can have legal implications for access to data by authorities outside the EU, which you may factor into your own assessment. For the SaaS service Everteam refers to sovereign hosting; the exact location of the data centres is not stated. The software is proprietary and not open source.

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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 5, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
JPVerified 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
Document Management (DMS)
Type
Product
Website
everteam.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Everteam

The European alternatives to Everteam 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 Everteam

Everteam is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in JP. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

Everteam 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 Everteam 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 Everteam?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Everteam 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 Everteam?

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

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

Everteam is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Everteam 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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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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