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Paul: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Paul is cloud-based quality management software from Paul Solutions for medical practices, medical care centres (MVZ), dental practices and care homes. It covers quality management, hygiene, occupational safety and data protection in one system: document control with versions and approvals, tasks and deadlines, multi-site administration, and template documents aligned with the German G-BA requirements. A migration service takes over existing documents. Paul runs in the browser and, according to the vendor, needs no installation or interface to practice software.

Paul Solutions GmbH is based in Erftstadt, Germany; no parent company is named. The vendor states that Paul is hosted exclusively on certified servers in Germany and that it works strictly to the GDPR; its support team is in Cologne. The website names no self-hosted option. The marketing website itself is hosted by a US provider, which is separate from the product. For European healthcare organisations this means practice documents are stored in Germany.

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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
Compliance & GRC
Type
Product
Website
paul-solutions.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Paul

The European alternatives to Paul 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 Paul

Paul 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 Paul scores best on data residency.

Paul 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 Paul 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 Paul?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Paul include 2B Advice PrIME, 360inControl and Acadias. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Paul?

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

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

Paul is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Paul 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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Compliance evidence

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