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Youforce (Visma Raet): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Youforce is a Dutch HR and payroll platform from Visma Raet that brings personnel administration and payroll together digitally. Its modules include an employee app, absence management, the HR cycle, leave, reporting and analytics, and integrations; extensions cover recruitment, onboarding, learning and development, and performance conversations. Youforce also provides services such as outsourced payroll administration and HR, implementation and training. The platform is delivered as SaaS, presents all HR data as one central source and has mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Youforce is part of Visma, a privately held Norwegian software group headquartered in Oslo that acquired Raet in 2018. Youforce reports ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015 and an ISAE 3402 Type II report. The vendor does not name exactly where data is hosted; it refers to multiple locations. The software is not open source. The hosting location should be fixed in the data processing agreement.

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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 9, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
NOVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
youforce.nl ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Youforce (Visma Raet)

The European alternatives to Youforce (Visma Raet) 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 Youforce (Visma Raet)

Youforce (Visma Raet) is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in NO, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Youforce (Visma Raet) scores best on data residency.

Youforce (Visma Raet) 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 Youforce (Visma Raet) 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 Youforce (Visma Raet)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Youforce (Visma Raet) include AFAS, AlexisHR and ATOSS Workforce Intelligence. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Youforce (Visma Raet)?

Our list of EU alternatives to Youforce (Visma Raet) is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Youforce (Visma Raet) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Youforce (Visma Raet) is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Youforce (Visma Raet) an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
youforce.nl/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

ISO/IEC 27001Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in HR

HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. 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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