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MES Pollen: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

MES Pollen is a modular MES (manufacturing execution system) from HD Technology for monitoring and steering industrial production. According to the vendor the software collects data in real time from machines, sensors and ERP systems (including via OPC UA), manages production orders with indicators such as OEE, good parts and scrap, and provides traceability from raw material to finished product. It also includes modules for quality monitoring, statistical process control (SPC), maintenance interventions, reporting, production scheduling and an AI-based chat assistant. It is aimed at industrial companies, for example in the food industry.

HD Technology is a French company with its office in Bron, near Lyon. The website names no parent company, so no foreign owner is recorded. The vendor does not state whether MES Pollen is delivered on-premises, in the cloud or as a managed service, nor where data is stored; ask this in advance, together with the sub-processors and a data processing agreement. No open-source licence is mentioned for the product.

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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 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified 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
Supply Chain & Asset Management
Type
Product
Website
hdtechnology.com ↗

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European alternatives to MES Pollen

The European alternatives to MES Pollen come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 MES Pollen

MES Pollen is headquartered in France 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 MES Pollen scores best on data residency.

MES Pollen 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 MES Pollen 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 MES Pollen?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to MES Pollen include 247Uptime, ACS fit MES and ADASMA. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to MES Pollen?

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

Is MES Pollen GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

MES Pollen is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes MES Pollen 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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