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Akarion GRC Cloud

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Panel rating · 6 judges · How to read the stars

Category median

Sovereignty: not determined

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by AKARION GmbH · akarion.com

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The In-House Counsel

Weighted verdict

Answers personally when the authority writes. Optimizes for defensibility: request clocks that never slip, a breach workflow that produces the Art. 33 notification, regime coverage that matches where the company actually operates. Rejects tools whose legal content nobody maintains.

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Scored by The In-House Counsel

Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing (RoPA/VVT), data protection impact assessments, processor/DPA management and TOMs — how deeply the legal artifacts are modeled and connected.

0 — Document templates in a folder tree; the "register" is a Word file with version numbers in the filename.

3 — A structured RoPA with basic fields and a DPIA questionnaire, but processors, TOMs and legal bases live outside the system.

5 — RoPA and DPIA as linked modules with templates; processor management and TOM assignment exist but are shallow, and group reuse is copy-paste.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA triggers derived from the record, reusable group templates, and outputs a supervisory authority accepts.

10 — Privacy records as a system of record: the RoPA drives DPIAs, processor management and TOM coverage from one data model, multi-client/mandate capability included, and the documentation is audit-ready without manual assembly.

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The In-House Counsel

The VVT is a 'dynamisches System' where changes to processes and assets update automatically, and processors (AVV), TOMs with authority-ready reports, DSFA with data-flow visualization and TIAs all sit in the module — that is a genuinely connected model with mandate inheritance for groups. But legal-basis modeling and DPIA triggers derived from the record are unevidenced, so I stop short of the 8 anchor. 3 1 2

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: data subject request handling with statutory clocks, breach register and authority notification, deletion concepts that actually delete.

0 — Requests arrive by email and live there; breaches are a phone call and a memo.

3 — A request log and a breach list exist, but deadlines are manual, intake is unstructured, and deletion rules are documentation rather than workflow.

5 — DSR workflows with the Art. 12 clock tracked, structured breach register with the 72-hour clock, deletion concepts assignable to records; automation is reminders.

8 — Intake channels for requests (portal/form), identity-check support, deadline automation with escalation, breach severity assessment and authority-report output, deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracking.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit walks through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 notification, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The In-House Counsel

The breach side holds up: a workflow that 'führt Sie durch die Bewertung und überwacht die kritische 72-Stunden-Meldefrist' with revision-safe documentation. The rights side is silent — no intake channel, no Art. 12 clock, no identity check, no deletion workflow, and no evidence the workflow produces the Art. 33 notification itself; missing evidence is information. 3 4

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

Which privacy regimes the product actually operationalizes — GDPR, BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, EU AI Act privacy duties — and whether one record maps across them or each regime is a fresh island.

0 — One regime, hard-coded; anything else is "on the roadmap".

3 — GDPR plus one national law as separate checklists; the same processing activity is documented once per regime.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy changes) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage with one-record-many-regimes mapping and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Regime coverage as a living product: multiple privacy regimes on one data basis, per-country variants, and documented update cadence when the law moves.

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The In-House Counsel

The framework list is long but privacy-thin: GDPR via SDM and ISO 27701 are the only privacy regimes operationalized; no Swiss nDSG despite an Austrian entity and AT hosting, no UK GDPR, no ePrivacy, no AI Act duties — only ISMS frameworks like NIS-2, DORA and BSI fill the list. There is a visible maintenance cadence (217 updates in 2024), but nothing evidences one-record-many-regimes privacy mapping, so this does not reach the 5 anchor for my multi-jurisdiction exposure. 1 2 3

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

Whether the system produces defensible proof: revision-safe history, evidence collection, reports for auditors, authorities and management.

0 — Exports are screenshots; history is overwritten in place.

3 — PDF reports exist but evidence is attached ad hoc and changes leave no reliable trail.

5 — Versioned records, standard report generators for the core registers, evidence attachments per activity; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

8 — Revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, management and authority reports current at a click, auditor access roles.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: continuous documentation status per regime and scope, exportable proof packs an auditor accepts as-is, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X".

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The In-House Counsel

Reports 'auf Knopfdruck' for management and auditors, TOMs with 'anpassbaren Reports für Behörden', revision-safe incident documentation and a named audit-trail plus a dedicated Audit module give me a defensible baseline. What keeps it from 8: no evidence of audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, auditor access roles, or an answer to 'show me the state on date X'. 4 3 2

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, ticketing, API — and automates the recurring privacy work instead of re-typing it.

0 — A closed island: manual entry in, PDF out, no API.

3 — CSV/Excel import and export; no live connections, no API worth the name.

5 — Directory import (AD/Entra), a documented REST API for core objects, a handful of native connectors (ticketing or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, useful AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, bidirectional sync with the estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil (reviews, attestations, evidence pulls) rather than renaming it.

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The In-House Counsel

Thirteen named connectors including ticketing (Jira, ServiceNow), asset sources (Matrix42) and process modeling (Signavio), plus SSO, autoprovisioning and generative AI with explicit human review is a real estate feed, not an island. But no documented REST API and no webhooks appear anywhere in the evidence, and escalation is only implied by the multi-stage approval workflow. 2 1 4

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for the system holding your RoPA.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The In-House Counsel

The chain is European where I can see it: Akarion GmbH (Linz) under a Munich AG, hosting on STACKIT in DE/AT, infrastructure expressly under German and partially Austrian jurisdiction, 100% development in AT/DE. But no DPA, no published subprocessor list and no TOMs are evidenced anywhere — for the system holding my RoPA I cannot certify jurisdictional cleanliness without that paper. 6 5 1 2

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per module, per entity, per year, with consulting unbundled — from public pages alone. Unpublished pricing is the B2B norm in this market, so this criterion describes rather than condemns; the benches weight it accordingly.

0 — No public prices at all; every configuration is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but module add-ons, entity counts or bundled consulting make the real total incomputable.

5 — Most editions carry real numbers with billing period stated and software separated from services; at least one commonly needed module or scale step is unpriced.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: modules, scale steps, service packages and renewal rules public, so the invoice for a 100-employee company and a 10-client consultancy is a two-minute exercise.

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The In-House Counsel

Not one price appears in the captured pages; the offering is modular ('5 Module für Ihren individuellen Bedarf') with AI features and custom connectors 'auf Anfrage', so every real invoice is a sales conversation. This matches the 0 anchor — describing the market norm, but nothing is computable here. 1 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (8)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Platform overview page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Data protection (DSMS) module page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 ISMS module page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 About page akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Imprint akarion.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap akarion.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →