EU sovereignDocument Management (DMS)Headquarters: ES

OpenKM: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OpenKM is a document management and knowledge platform from Open Document Management System S.L. It includes a BPM engine for document approval and distribution, workflows with notifications and escalation, digitisation of paper documents using OCR, OMR and barcode reading, automatic versioning, role-based access control, encryption in transit and at rest, and an audit log. Integration is available through REST and CMIS. There are three editions: Professional, Cloud and the free Community Edition. The software can run on an organisation's own servers.

The company lists an address in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Up to and including version 6.3, OpenKM Community Edition was open source under GPL-2.0. From version 7.0 the vendor no longer publishes the source code, and the Community Edition is distributed only as a free binary package. That edition is therefore no longer open source in the usual sense. The website does not say where the cloud service is hosted. A European organisation that wants control over data location can install OpenKM on its own servers.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	ES (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
Hosting signal	HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Document Management (DMS)
Type	Product
Website	openkm.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 OpenKM

The European alternatives to OpenKM 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 OpenKM

OpenKM is headquartered in ES 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 OpenKM scores best on data residency.

OpenKM 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 OpenKM 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 OpenKM?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OpenKM include agorum, AMAGNO and BlueSpice. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OpenKM?

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

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

OpenKM is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes OpenKM an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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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