Non-EU vendorProduct Feedback & RoadmappingHeadquarters: IL

WalkMe: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

WalkMe is a digital adoption platform. It adds a layer on top of business applications and gives users guidance, workflow automation and surveys, including in combination with applications such as SAP and SuccessFactors. It is aimed at organisations that want employees and customers to work better with software and is delivered as SaaS.

WalkMe Ltd is based in Tel Aviv (Israel); WalkMe Inc. is in San Francisco and WalkMe Germany GmbH in Frankfurt acts as EU representative. On 12 September 2024 SAP SE of Walldorf (Germany) completed its acquisition, so the German parent is the ultimate owner. According to the vendor's support pages there are data centres in the US and the EU, and not all features are available in the EU data centre. The trust centre lists the GDPR, standard contractual clauses, the Data Privacy Framework and a data processing agreement; sub-processors include AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Akamai and Datadog. WalkMe is not open source.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
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-630
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 11, 2026

Headquarters	IL (OTHER)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	DEVerified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Product Feedback & Roadmapping
Type	Product
Website	walkme.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to WalkMe

The European alternatives to WalkMe 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 WalkMe

WalkMe is headquartered in IL, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor. The ultimate owner is based in DE, also within Europe.

WalkMe hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

WalkMe 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 WalkMe 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 WalkMe?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to WalkMe include airfocus, Condens and Feature Upvote. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to WalkMe?

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

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

WalkMe is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in US, EU. 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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