EU sovereignScheduling & BookingHeadquarters: SI

Joan: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Joan is a workplace management platform developed by Visionect d.o.o. It covers meeting room booking, desk booking, parking and asset reservation, visitor management and digital signage on ePaper and LCD displays. Employees book rooms and desks in a mobile app, administrators manage the platform through MyJoan, and the platform integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Joan is delivered as a cloud service, and the wireless ePaper room displays are designed and manufactured by Visionect in Europe.

Visionect is headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and its privacy policy refers to Slovenian and EU law. The company states that customer data is hosted in EU data centres in Belgium on Google Cloud Platform, and that it holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. The privacy policy also notes that some third-party service providers are based outside the European Economic Area, so a European organisation should check the sub-processor list and the data processing terms. No self-hosted option is described on the company's pages.

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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	SI (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
Category	Scheduling & Booking
Type	Product
Website	getjoan.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Joan

The European alternatives to Joan come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Joan

Joan is headquartered in SI 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 Joan scores best on data residency.

Joan 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 Joan 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 Joan?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Joan include Agendize, aleno and Baïkal. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Joan?

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

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

Joan is headquartered in SI (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Joan 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 Scheduling & Booking

Scheduling & Booking: Appointment scheduling, online booking systems and calendar management. 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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