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PACS Software: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

PACS Software is project controlling software for service and project-driven companies. The base module contains project management, contact management, project reporting and a tool for customising the software. Additional modules include time recording, travel expense claims, project acquisition with CRM, project and capacity planning and project invoicing, billed by effort or at a fixed price. There are also functions for document management, leave and time accounts, a personnel file and electronic invoices. You work with a rich client, a web client or a mobile app; Power BI templates for analysis are available.

PACS Software is offered by PACS Software GmbH & Co. KG in Munich, Germany. The website names no parent company. You can take the software as a cloud subscription hosted in a data centre in Germany, or buy it and install it on your own infrastructure. The vendor speaks of GDPR-compliant storage in Germany. For European organisations both options fall under European law; for cloud use, ask for the data processing agreement.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (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
Category
Project Management
Type
Product
Website
pacs-projektcontrolling-software.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to PACS Software

The European alternatives to PACS Software come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 PACS Software

PACS Software is headquartered in DE 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 PACS Software scores best on data residency.

PACS Software 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 PACS Software 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 PACS Software?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to PACS Software include Aikku PROJECTS (Camino), Arinto and awork. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to PACS Software?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to PACS Software include Aikku PROJECTS (Camino). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is PACS Software GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

PACS Software is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes PACS Software 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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Digital sovereignty in Project Management

Project Management: Project planning, issue tracking, knowledge management, team collaboration. 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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