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Medidata: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Medidata is a clinical research platform used by life-science organisations to run clinical trials. It covers study management (including clinical trial management and eTMF), patient-facing tools such as eCOA and consent, and data management with Rave EDC, randomisation and trial supply management, and medical coding. An AI assistant helps orchestrate trials. It is delivered as a cloud platform (SaaS), with professional services for configuration and consulting.

Medidata is headquartered in New York and has been a subsidiary of the French company Dassault Systèmes since 2019. It publishes a GDPR-oriented data processing exhibit, standard contractual clauses information and a sub-processor list, and states that it holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2+ Type II certifications. Public pages do not state where Rave data is hosted, so confirm the hosting region and sub-processors in your contract.

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Sovereignty score

37 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	FRVerified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Healthcare
Type	Product
Website	medidata.com ↗

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 Medidata

The European alternatives to Medidata 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 Medidata

Medidata is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model. The ultimate owner is based in FR, also within Europe.

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

Medidata 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 Medidata 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 Medidata?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Medidata include Enovacom, Lifen and Nedap Healthcare. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Medidata?

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

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

Medidata is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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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".

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