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PAVE: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

PAVE is a cloud-based common data environment (CDE) for construction and property projects. It provides audit-proof communication between project participants, workflows, task tracking, document management and BIM collaboration, and the vendor describes AI-supported information management. It supports sign-in through single sign-on with Microsoft Active Directory, optional multi-factor authentication and role-based permissions. Its operator is PMG Projektraum Management GmbH in Munich.

Since February 2023 PAVE has been part of Pro4all, a platform ecosystem for the construction industry whose group company is based in Woerden, the Netherlands. The vendor states that software and all data are hosted in data centres in Germany and, except at the customer's explicit request, not sent abroad, and that the hosting contract is governed by German law. Files are encrypted and logged for audit purposes. For a European organisation this means German hosting under German and EU law. The website does not state what share of PMG Pro4all holds.

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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
pmgnet.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to PAVE

The European alternatives to PAVE 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 PAVE

PAVE 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 PAVE scores best on data residency.

PAVE 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 PAVE 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 PAVE?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to PAVE 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 PAVE?

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

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

PAVE is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes PAVE 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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