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Gantner: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Gantner supplies RFID-based time recording terminals, access control systems, smart lockers and cashless payment systems for businesses, schools and leisure facilities. Employees clock in and out with a card, key fob or chip, and the terminals also display leave and time balances. The range includes terminals with or without a fingerprint reader, and an app that sets each device to work as an access, time or information terminal. Standard interfaces connect the hardware to third-party time and attendance and personnel software.

The company is seated in Austria, in Nüziders in the state of Vorarlberg. Since SALTO Systems acquired it in 2020, it has belonged to the Spanish SALTO group, which is based in another EU Member State, and no non-European parent company is involved. The website does not state whether the time recording software runs on the customer's own servers or as a cloud service, and it names no data-hosting location or data processing agreement. European organisations considering these systems can ask the vendor to confirm in writing where any cloud-based data is stored.

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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 12, 2026
Headquarters
AT (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
ESVerified 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
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Gantner

The European alternatives to Gantner come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Gantner

Gantner is headquartered in AT 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 ES, also within Europe.

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

Gantner 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 Gantner 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 Gantner?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Gantner include askDANTE, Beebole and Clockodo. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Gantner?

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

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

Gantner is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Gantner 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 Time Tracking

Time Tracking: Apps for tracking time spent on tasks and projects. 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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