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Tenzu: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Tenzu is a web-based project management tool built around Kanban boards. Teams create workspaces with projects, organise tasks on boards, add comments and attachments, and edit content together in real time. It offers granular permissions, single sign-on through standard systems such as OpenID Connect and LDAP, a REST API, a dark theme and an interface in English, French and Spanish. Tenzu is available as a hosted service and as source code; dedicated instances and support are offered through partners.

Tenzu is developed by BIRU, a cooperative in Paris, France, which took over the Taiga Next code base from Kaleidos in mid-2024. The code is published under the GNU AGPL v3. In its privacy policy BIRU acts as data controller and, for customer content, as processor. It names Indie Hosters as its hosting subprocessor and states that personal data is not transferred outside the European Union.

Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Tenzu

The European alternatives to Tenzu come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Tenzu

Tenzu 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.

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

Tenzu is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Tenzu 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 Tenzu?

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

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

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

Tenzu is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Tenzu 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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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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