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Silae: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Silae is a French provider of cloud software for payroll and HR, aimed mainly at the French market. Its core is payroll processing through to the DSN, the French social declaration. Around it sit modules for HR management, time tracking, expense claims, reporting and digital archiving. The software is distributed through a network of partners, such as accounting firms and integrators, and also targets small and medium-sized businesses.

Silae is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France. In 2020 the US investment firm Silver Lake announced it would acquire 100% of Silae from its founders; a US owner is a CLOUD-Act signal. According to Silae, data is hosted in France on Microsoft Azure, a US provider, and its document archiving runs in an Orange Business data centre. The software is not open source. For a European organisation, the hosting location is therefore French, while the ownership and the infrastructure provider are American.

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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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyUSVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalOVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
CategoryHR
TypeProduct
Websitesilae.fr ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Silae

The European alternatives to Silae come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Silae

Silae is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Silae scores best on data residency.

Silae 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 Silae 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 Silae?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Silae include AFAS, AlexisHR and ATOSS Workforce Intelligence. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Silae?

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

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

Silae is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Silae an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
silae.fr/conformite
EU hosting documented
silae.fr/legal

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in HR

HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. 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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