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Softlare Business Management (SBM): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Softlare Business Management (SBM) is software for staffing agencies and other personnel service providers in Germany. It combines time recording, payroll, equal pay, industry surcharges and invoicing in one system. According to the vendor, it offers digital timesheets, import of time data from Excel, CSV or device interfaces, a DATEV interface and GoBD-compliant processing of invoices. Payroll can be run in-house or prepared data can be handed to a tax adviser. SBM is delivered as a cloud service, with automatic backups and direct support.

Softlare GmbH is headquartered in Worms, Germany, and no foreign parent company is named. According to the vendor, SBM runs in a cloud infrastructure in Germany, and data is stored in line with the GDPR and backed up regularly. No self-hosted option for SBM is described. For European staffing firms this means personnel and payroll data stay with a German provider. Ask for the data processing agreement and the exact hosting provider.

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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
HR
Type
Product
Website
softlare.de ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Softlare Business Management (SBM)

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Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Softlare Business Management (SBM)

Softlare Business Management (SBM) 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 Softlare Business Management (SBM) scores best on data residency.

Softlare Business Management (SBM) 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 Softlare Business Management (SBM) 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 Softlare Business Management (SBM)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Softlare Business Management (SBM) include absence.io, AFAS and AlexisHR. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Softlare Business Management (SBM)?

Our list of EU alternatives to Softlare Business Management (SBM) is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Softlare Business Management (SBM) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Softlare Business Management (SBM) is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Softlare Business Management (SBM) 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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Digital sovereignty in HR

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