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factro: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

factro is cloud-based project management software delivered as software-as-a-service. Its main elements are a project structure tree for breaking projects into steps, a Gantt timeline with milestones and dependencies, a dashboard for project leads, a personal task view across all projects, Kanban and table views, meeting functions and workload views. An API provides connections to tools such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and a mobile app is available. Users include public administrations, engineering and architecture firms, consultancies, hospitals and utilities.

factro is a business unit of Schuchert Managementberatung GmbH & Co. KG in Bochum, Germany. The privacy notice on its website names Bajorat Media in Lage, Germany, as the hosting provider for the website; the sources consulted do not state exactly where application data is stored. The software is proprietary and no self-hosted edition is mentioned. European organisations should request the data processing agreement and have the storage location confirmed in writing.

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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 2, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalIONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryProject Management
TypeProduct
Websitefactro.de ↗

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 factro

The European alternatives to factro come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 factro

factro 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 factro scores best on data residency.

factro 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 factro 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 factro?

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

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

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

factro is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes factro 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

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)
factro.de/datenschutz/
Security page / trust center
factro.de/datenschutz/
EU hosting documented
factro.de/datenschutz/

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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