EU sovereignERP & FinanceHeadquarters: CZ

POHODA: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

POHODA is Czech accounting and business software from STORMWARE s.r.o., covering bookkeeping and business administration. The company describes POHODA as an economic and information system and offers related products for payroll, tax returns and vehicle logbooks, as well as mobile tools for invoicing and quick sales. The website links to installation and system-requirement pages, which points to software installed on the user's own computers rather than a cloud service.

STORMWARE s.r.o. is based in Jihlava in the Czech Republic, so the vendor is established in the EU. The public website does not name owners or a parent company, and it does not state where data is stored. Software installed on the customer's own systems keeps accounting data under its own control, which matters for organisations that want to keep data within their own infrastructure. The software is not open source. Before choosing it, a European organisation should check the licence terms and any online, cloud or mobile features that send data outside the local installation.

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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 10, 2026

Headquarters	CZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	ERP & Finance
Type	Product
Website	stormware.cz ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to POHODA

The European alternatives to POHODA come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 POHODA

POHODA is headquartered in CZ 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 POHODA scores best on data residency.

POHODA 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 POHODA 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 POHODA?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to POHODA include 24SevenOffice, A3ERP and Abacus. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to POHODA?

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

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

POHODA is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes POHODA 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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