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planis: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

planis is business software for service companies that brings resource planning, project management and service recording together. Modules cover projects with budget control, team and skills, planning and staffing, time and service recording, customers and addresses with CRM functions, sales and quotes, invoicing, business intelligence and management of subcontractors. You enter data once and it is available across all modules. planis is offered as software as a service, with operation, maintenance and updates provided by the vendor.

planis is developed by APP Unternehmensberatung AG in Bern, Switzerland. According to the vendor, servers and data are located in Swiss or EU data centres; which location applies to your contract is not stated, so ask. The website names no parent company. Switzerland is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. Because planis holds staff, customer and invoicing data, a European organisation should record the data centre location and a data processing agreement in the contract.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-390
    Hosting in the EU and Switzerland
  • 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
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CH, EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Project Management
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to planis

The European alternatives to planis 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 planis

planis is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

planis hosts data in the EU and in Switzerland. Switzerland is covered by a European Commission adequacy decision, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. If you require strictly EU hosting, check the data processing agreement for which data is stored in Switzerland.

planis 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 planis 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 planis?

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

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

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

planis is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH, EU. That makes planis 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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