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Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Axiom is an enterprise performance management platform for planning, budgeting, modelling, profitability measurement and reporting. It is offered in versions for healthcare providers, higher-education institutions, financial institutions and general industries. The product comes from Syntellis Performance Solutions, which has since been combined with Strata Decision Technology; the former Syntellis website now redirects to Strata.

Strata is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and is part of Roper Technologies, a publicly traded US holding company. Roper bought Syntellis in 2023 from its previous owners, Thoma Bravo and Madison Dearborn Partners. Both the vendor and its parent are therefore subject to US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act, which is relevant for European organisations that keep financial planning data in the platform. The vendor's public pages do not state where customer data is hosted or whether an EU hosting option exists, so ask for the hosting location and the list of subprocessors in writing before contracting. Axiom is proprietary software and not open source.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 9, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM)

The European alternatives to Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM)

Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) include Board International, CCH Tagetik and CoPlanner. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM)?

Our list of EU alternatives to Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Syntellis Performance Solutions (Axiom EPM) is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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