EU Sovereignty Score
EU-hosted, non-EU parentSupply Chain & Asset ManagementHeadquarters: NL

ORTEC: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ORTEC develops optimisation and planning software for logistics and workforce management. Its range includes route and load planning for B2B transport, home delivery and intercompany transport, scheduling of employees and of mobile field service teams, and custom analytics and optimisation models built by its own data science teams under the name ORTEC Lumina. Customers named by the company include retailers, energy companies and healthcare providers. According to a financial adviser on its 2024 investment, ORTEC is moving its products towards software as a service.

ORTEC is a Dutch company, founded in 1981 by a group of Dutch students. In January 2024 the US investor Battery Ventures made a significant investment in the company. A US owner can make US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act, relevant even for data held in Europe. ORTEC's public pages do not state where its cloud services are hosted, so ask for the hosting location and the data processing agreement. The software is proprietary.

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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 September 20, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyUSVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategorySupply Chain & Asset Management
TypeProduct
Websiteortec.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 ORTEC

The European alternatives to ORTEC come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 ORTEC

ORTEC is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

ORTEC 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 ORTEC 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 ORTEC?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to ORTEC include AEB SE, AIMMS and Alpega Group. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to ORTEC?

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

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

ORTEC is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes ORTEC 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Supply Chain & Asset Management: Demand forecasting, inventory and production planning, warehouse management and enterprise asset management (EAM). 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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