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Microsoft Viva Glint: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Microsoft Viva Glint, formerly Glint, is an employee feedback platform. HR teams use it to run engagement, onboarding, exit and other surveys, analyse results and follow up with action plans. According to Microsoft, it offers reports with trends and heat maps by department, AI-assisted summaries of comments through Copilot, benchmarks, risk alerts and guided conversations for managers. It can be combined with Viva Insights data, which needs a separate licence. It is a cloud service added to a Microsoft 365 enterprise subscription.

Microsoft is headquartered in the United States and subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. Microsoft documents three data residency regions for Viva Glint data at rest: West US, EU and Australia. The EU region applies when the tenant is hosted in a country within the EU Data Boundary; tenants hosted elsewhere in the world are placed in West US. Retention is configurable and the Microsoft Data Protection Addendum applies. Survey comments can be sensitive, so check the tenant location and confidentiality thresholds.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, OTHER)
  • 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 13, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
US, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
microsoft.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Microsoft Viva Glint

The European alternatives to Microsoft Viva Glint 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 Microsoft Viva Glint

Microsoft Viva Glint 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.

Microsoft Viva Glint hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Microsoft Viva Glint 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 Microsoft Viva Glint 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 Microsoft Viva Glint?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Microsoft Viva Glint include absence.io, AFAS and AlexisHR. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Microsoft Viva Glint?

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

Is Microsoft Viva Glint GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Microsoft Viva Glint is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 13, 2026.

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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