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Self-hosted / open sourceSupply Chain & Asset ManagementHeadquarters: France

XROAD First: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

XROAD First is a transport management system (TMS) from the French company Akanea for small and medium-sized road haulage companies. According to the vendor, it covers order management, an interactive operations planner, invoicing with preparation for electronic invoices, integrated fleet management and the XMobile driver app. The 360° PROXIMITY customer portal lets hauliers share information with their clients. The software supports different transport types, such as charter, part-load, bulk and tipper work.

Akanea Développement is a SAS with its registered seat in Tille near Beauvais, France, and joined Groupe ISAGRI in 2018, which the vendor describes as an independent French software publisher. No foreign owner is named. Akanea supplies its applications on site and in the cloud (PaaS or SaaS). The vendor describes a private cloud in a data centre in France, with redundancy, backups and round-the-clock monitoring, and the website carries a GDPR charter. For European organisations, this means a vendor and a hosting location under French and EU law. Which delivery option applies to this product is best confirmed with the vendor.

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Sovereignty score
80 / 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-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in the EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Supply Chain & Asset Management
Type
Product
Website
akanea.com ↗

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European alternatives to XROAD First

The European alternatives to XROAD First come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 XROAD First

XROAD First is headquartered in France and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

XROAD First runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

XROAD First is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

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

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to XROAD First include 247Uptime, ACS fit MES and ADASMA. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to XROAD First?

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

Is XROAD First GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

XROAD First is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes XROAD First 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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