IN BRIEF
Digital sovereignty is an organisation's ability to decide on its own data, systems and providers, and to change those decisions when needed. It does not require full independence, but dependencies that are chosen deliberately and kept under control.
When to involve us.
When core applications depend on a single provider or jurisdiction, customers or regulators ask where data resides and who can access it, or switching providers seems practically impossible, you need a deliberate assessment.
We identify critical dependencies across data, applications, platforms and contracts. Each is assessed by business risk, switching effort and available alternatives. From this, we derive guardrails, exit options and measures that are embedded in architecture and procurement.
What the work produces.
We agree on the scope around your goals, starting point and available capacity. The following elements illustrate what an engagement can include.
WHAT WE ADDRESS
- Dependency map across data, applications and providers
- Sovereignty criteria and architecture guardrails
- Exit strategies and portability requirements
- Requirements for procurement and contracts
POTENTIAL OUTPUTS
A well-founded view of your critical dependencies and clear guardrails for which ones you accept in future and how you limit them.
A focused starting point.
An overview of your key applications, cloud and software contracts, and any known requirements on data location and access. Procurement, legal and architecture should be involved from the start.
The question first. Then the scope.
The first conversation clarifies the objective, deliverables and people involved. We agree whether the engagement covers design, pilot support or technical implementation, who takes on each task and how the deliverables will be assessed.
Discuss a starting point by emailDoes digital sovereignty mean avoiding US hyperscalers?
Not necessarily. For many workloads, large public cloud providers are a sound technical and economic choice, provided encryption, key control and exit paths are in place. For others, such as highly sensitive data or critical processes, a sovereign cloud or your own data centre may be more appropriate. What matters is that each workload's placement is justified individually rather than decided wholesale. Since September 2025, the EU Data Act has made switching between cloud providers easier, but it does not replace your own exit planning. Legal questions, such as access rights of foreign authorities, belong with your legal experts; we prepare the organisational and technical basis for their assessment.
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