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Hogia: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hogia AB, based in Stenungsund in western Sweden, develops and supplies cloud-based HR, time and payroll solutions, alongside industry-specific business systems. Its modular offering is meant to bring personnel data, time registration and payroll into one connected workflow. The solutions are offered as cloud services.

Hogia's head office is in Sweden, and the company's pages name no foreign parent, so no foreign-ownership signal arises from them. Its privacy policy states that personal data is not stored, transferred or processed outside the EU and EEA unless otherwise agreed, and it describes a data processing agreement for customers. For a European organisation this makes Hogia an option under European jurisdiction for payroll and HR data. The data-centre location is not named on the pages reviewed, so customers who need it should request it in writing. The company does not describe an open-source product.

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
SE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Hogia

The European alternatives to Hogia 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 Hogia

Hogia is headquartered in SE 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 Hogia scores best on data residency.

Hogia 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 Hogia 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 Hogia?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Hogia include AFAS, AlexisHR and ATOSS Workforce Intelligence. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Hogia?

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

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

Hogia is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Hogia 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in HR

HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. 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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