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Mapiq at a glance

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Mapiq B.V.
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Mapiq 3.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Mapiq (Mapiq B.V., Delft) is strongest on occupancy analytics, a flat 8: meeting-room reports reconcile booked against sensor-measured use in one-minute intervals and attendance draws on badge, Wi-Fi and access-gate data, with small-group masking under five people and pseudonymisation after 30 days. how scores are made
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Vendor pages captured 5 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 6 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Workplace Manager

Weighted verdict

Runs workplace and facilities for a 900-person insurer with offices in Cologne, Munich and Vienna and 0.6 desks per employee since the move to hybrid work. Tuesdays are full, Fridays are empty, and the Munich lease is up in eighteen months. Wants desks, rooms and parking on real floor plans, no-shows released automatically, neighbourhoods per team, and occupancy figures built from check-ins rather than bookings, good enough to take to the board.

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Scored by The Workplace Manager

Panel median The Workplace Manager This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Workplace Manager
Desk, room & parking booking 4 of 5 4 of 5
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Hybrid work coordination 3 of 5 3 of 5
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy 4 of 5 4 of 5
Integrations, identity & administration 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5

Desk, room & parking booking

How this is scored

What can be booked and how easily: desks, meeting rooms, parking spaces and other resources (lockers, equipment, EV chargers), interactive floor plans per site and floor, desk attributes (monitor, standing desk, accessibility), neighbourhoods and zones, hot and assigned desks, recurring and multi-day bookings, booking for colleagues and guests, room booking synced both ways with Microsoft 365 or Google calendars, room displays, booking from the web, mobile apps, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, and several languages.

0 — Books nothing for an organisation's own staff; a customer appointment tool or a facility system without self-service booking.

3 — Desks can be booked from a list or a simple plan in a web app; rooms, parking, mobile apps and calendar integration are basic or not described.

5 — Desks, rooms and parking on interactive floor plans for several sites and floors, desk attributes and assigned desks, recurring bookings, booking on behalf of colleagues, mobile apps, room bookings synced with Microsoft 365 or Google calendars, and booking from Microsoft Teams or Slack.

8 — Neighbourhoods and zones per team, an Outlook add-in that books a room and a desk together, room displays with check-in, guest and visitor bookings linked to the host's desk, resources such as lockers and EV chargers, floor plans imported from CAD or drawn in an editor, accessibility of the apps stated, and the product in German and other languages.

10 — Booking that runs a multi-country estate: every resource type above on one plan, wayfinding to the booked desk, booking from every channel with parity documented, catering and equipment with the room, and the accessibility of web and apps documented to WCAG 2.1 AA.

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The Workplace Manager

Desks, meeting rooms, parking spots, areas and neighbourhoods, timeslots, group and on-behalf bookings all sit on interactive 3D maps with a drag-and-drop map editor, room displays and kiosks, catering and equipment requests from Outlook or Google, visitor management and a Vecos locker integration, reachable from web, mobile, Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Wayfinding to the reserved desk is documented through the 3D map and occupancy sensors syncing real-time availability to displays. I found no public information on EV chargers, CAD import, an accessibility statement for the apps, or a German-language version, so I stop just below the top of the scale. 1 2 4 9 14 17

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Check-in, auto-release & booking rules

How this is scored

How the booking is kept honest and fair: check-in by app, QR code, NFC, room display, Wi-Fi or sensor, auto-release of desks and rooms nobody checked in to, booking rules per site, area or group (how far ahead, how many days a week, maximum duration), approvals for restricted areas, assigned and permanent desks with release when the owner is away, fair allocation of scarce parking (lottery, rotation, priority for disabled or EV drivers), capacity limits per floor, and notifications and reminders.

0 — No rules at all; any booking stands whether or not anyone arrives.

3 — A booking can be cancelled by the user; check-in, auto-release and booking rules are basic or not described.

5 — Check-in by app or QR code, automatic release of unconfirmed desk and room bookings after a set time, booking windows and limits per site or group, restricted areas for named groups, assigned desks that their owner can release, and reminders before the booking.

8 — Check-in by room display, NFC, Wi-Fi or occupancy sensor, rules per area and user group with approvals, fair parking allocation by lottery or rotation with priority spaces, capacity limits per floor, permanent desks released automatically during absence synced from the HR system, and the no-show logic documented.

10 — Rules that run themselves across an estate: every check-in method above, automatic desk assignment from team and attendance plans, policy changes rolled out per country with an audit trail, and no-show and release rates reported per site with the method stated.

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The Workplace Manager

Automatic check-in when sensors detect presence at a reserved desk or room, check-in by keycard or phone swipe through the access-control match, and a room auto-release flow documented to the minute: sensors monitored until five minutes after start, a ten-minute confirmation window, cancellation fifteen minutes in, per-occurrence handling for recurring meetings, and Outlook emailing the organiser afterwards. Workspace policies are configurable per area (desk booking, area booking, ad hoc only) with assigned seats, booking windows, occupancy limits with alerts, and permissions by country, department, team and individual. I found no public information on fair parking allocation by lottery or rotation, approvals for restricted areas, or assigned desks released automatically from HR absence data — and the no-show release requires the Occupancy add-on. 2 4 7 13 16 17

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Hybrid work coordination

How this is scored

How people plan office days together: a weekly view of who will be in the office, home office and absence, favourite colleagues and teams, team days and anchor days, booking next to colleagues, office events, attendance planning and office policies (for example two office days a week) with nudges rather than enforcement, the planner inside Microsoft Teams, Outlook or Slack, sync with absence and HR systems, and visibility settings so employees decide who sees their plans.

0 — No view of colleagues or office days; booking only.

3 — A list of who has booked a desk on a day; team planning, policies and visibility settings are basic or not described.

5 — A weekly planner of office, home and absence days, favourite colleagues and teams, booking a desk next to a colleague, team days, the planner in Microsoft Teams or Slack, notifications when colleagues plan to come in, and a visibility setting per user.

8 — Anchor days and office policies per team with nudges, office events and invitations, sync with absence and HR systems, recommendations of the best office day for a team, delegation for assistants, and visibility and privacy options documented for employees and admins.

10 — Coordination that changes behaviour and is measured: team plans that book desks and rooms automatically, policy adherence shown only in aggregate, works council-ready configuration documented, and the effect on office attendance reported with the method stated.

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The Workplace Manager

The colleague finder shows who is in the building today, when a coworker plans to come in, and lets people pick a desk near the people they want to work with; connections and groups are the default, guests never appear, enforcement is server-side, and the whole-schedule-or-nothing model is documented for employees and admins. For my Tuesdays I would want a weekly planner covering home office and absence, team or anchor days with nudges, and alerts when colleagues plan to come in; visibility is one organisation-wide switch rather than a per-employee choice, and I found no public information on HR or absence sync. 1 8 9 18 21

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Occupancy analytics & employee privacy

How this is scored

What the data is worth for a real estate decision and how it treats the people it measures: utilisation per desk, room, zone, floor and site, booked against checked-in or measured use, peak days and times, no-show rates, room size against meeting size, occupancy sensors, badge, Wi-Fi or people counting data, scenario planning for consolidation, scheduled reports and export to Excel or BI tools, and on the other side aggregation, anonymisation and minimum group sizes, configurable retention and deletion of booking records, role-based access to personal data, and documentation a works council or data protection officer can work with.

0 — No reports of any kind; only the current bookings are shown.

3 — Booking counts or a utilisation chart per site; check-in data, export, retention and anonymisation are basic or not described.

5 — Utilisation per desk, room, floor and site over time, booked against checked-in use, no-show rates, peak days, CSV or Excel export, a retention period for booking data stated or configurable, and reports that can be limited to aggregates.

8 — Occupancy sensors or badge and Wi-Fi data combined with bookings, room size against attendance, scenario or consolidation planning, a BI connector or analytics API, anonymised reports with minimum group sizes, role-based access to personal booking data, deletion periods per data type, and material for a works council agreement published.

10 — Evidence a portfolio decision can rest on: measured and booked occupancy reconciled with the method stated, data quality and sensor accuracy documented, raw data exportable in an open format, privacy by design documented down to field level, and a sample works council agreement or DPIA published.

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The Workplace Manager

Attendance reporting is built from badge imports, check-ins, Wi-Fi and access-gate data rather than bookings, with average and peak attendance, weekday and hour patterns, department breakdowns and small-group masking under five people; the meeting-room report reconciles booked against sensor-measured use in one-minute intervals, separating booked-and-used, ad hoc use and no-shows including released bookings, and the room analytics by floor, hour, weekday and seat bucket openly state their method caveats. Power BI streaming plus Qlik, Tableau and Databricks connectors, portfolio benchmarks across sites, AI scenario planning for headcount and return-to-office shifts, configurable retention with pseudonymisation after thirty days and anonymisation for analytics complete the picture. I found no public information on a DPIA or sample works council agreement, and sensor accuracy is not documented. 1 5 9 12 16 19 20 21

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Integrations, identity & administration

How this is scored

How the tool fits the company's systems and is run: Microsoft 365 and Exchange room mailboxes, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams and Slack apps, single sign-on with Entra ID, Okta or Google (SAML or OIDC), SCIM user provisioning, HR system sync (Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday), access control and badge systems, room displays and sensor hardware, a documented REST API and webhooks, several sites, countries and companies in one account, roles and delegated administration per site, audit logs, bulk import of users and resources, and implementation and support.

0 — No integrations, one admin login, users and desks entered only by hand.

3 — A calendar connection and a few admin roles; single sign-on, provisioning, API and multi-site administration are basic or not described.

5 — Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace calendar sync, Teams or Slack app, single sign-on with Entra ID, Okta or Google, user import or SCIM provisioning, a documented REST API, several sites with administrators per site, and bulk import of users and resources.

8 — SCIM provisioning with groups, HR system sync, access control or badge integration, webhooks, SAML and OIDC, granular roles and delegated administration per site and country, audit logs, room display and sensor hardware supported by named models, several companies or tenants in one account, and an implementation plan published.

10 — Administration that scales across a multinational estate: every setting reachable by API with parity stated, multi-tenant administration with separate data per company, audit logs exportable to a SIEM, an open hardware policy with documented device APIs, and a named support SLA per plan.

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The Workplace Manager

Forty-nine catalogued integrations cover single sign-on with Entra ID, Okta and Azure AD, Microsoft 365 room-calendar sync with documented calendar permissions and a sync-status overview, Gallagher access control, Wi-Fi from Aruba, Cisco Spaces and others, IWMS links to TOPdesk and Planon, BI tools and Zapier, alongside a documented API with a developer portal for workspace and parking bookings, building configurations and user lists. Permissions run from country down to individual level, sites are managed individually with portfolio-wide benchmarks, each integration comes with an implementation engineer, and 99.9% uptime with an SLA per subscription is stated. I found no public information on SCIM provisioning, HR system sync, webhooks, administrator audit logs or several companies in one account. 3 6 7 9 13 22

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where employee profiles, bookings (who sat where on which day), presence and absence plans, parking licence plates and sensor data are stored and processed, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, email and push notifications, maps, analytics, support and payment tools, hardware and sensor clouds). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline. A calendar integration with Microsoft 365 or Google that the customer already runs is part of the customer's chain; the vendor's own hosting and subprocessors are what is judged.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU hosting available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (email and push notifications, analytics, support, payment, sensor clouds) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated — or an on-premise edition documented that keeps every record on the customer's own servers.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, or an on-premise edition with no call home, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Workplace Manager

Mapiq B.V. of Delft contracts under Dutch law with the courts of The Hague and Amsterdam, hosts on Microsoft Azure West-Europe in the Netherlands and Ireland with a stated commitment not to transfer data outside the EEA, signs a data processing agreement with every customer, and names its subprocessors — Microsoft Ireland for hosting, Brevo for email, Intercom for support — with ISO 27001 audited yearly and ISO 9001 stated. Brevo and Intercom are listed without a stated location, the certifications come without their scope, and I found no public information on push-notification or payment subprocessors or on the ownership behind the company, so I cannot put this at the very top. 11 12 13

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per tier by user, desk, bookable resource, site or device, what rooms, parking and analytics cost on top, which features (SSO, SCIM, HR sync, sensors, room displays, visitor management, API) need a higher tier or an add-on, hardware prices and their licences, platform or setup fees, minimum users or minimum spend, the free tier and its limits, minimum term and VAT.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but how cost scales with users, desks, rooms, sites or devices is unclear.

5 — Tiers are public with their price unit (per user, desk, resource or site) and main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (room or parking booking, SSO, analytics, displays or sensors, setup) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its scaling rule, add-ons and hardware licences priced, setup and platform fees stated, minimum users or spend stated, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of users, desks, rooms, parking spaces and sites, with every add-on, hardware, support and implementation fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Workplace Manager

No figure appears on any page I read: the pricing page says only "Only pay for what you need" and "Mix and match features", while plan names such as Premium and Enterprise and add-ons such as Occupancy appear in help articles without prices. The terms do state euros excluding VAT, annual invoicing in advance, a 7% yearly increase, a minimum of 250 employees per location, non-cancellable terms with 45 days' notice and hardware delivered DAP with twelve months' warranty — but nothing that lets a buyer price 900 people across three sites. 9 11 16 22

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 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.

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Questions about Mapiq

Is Mapiq European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Mapiq as EU-Made.

Where does Mapiq store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 5 Nov 2026.

Does Mapiq have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 5 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Mapiq?

As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates deskbird (3.5/5), Kadence (3.5/5) and anny (3/5) highest among the other 15 Desk Booking & Hybrid Workplace products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is deskbird (UK / wider Europe). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Mapiq alternatives.

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Sources (23)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page (desk and resource booking) www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features page (meeting rooms) www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Features page (occupancy sensors) www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Features page (workplace analytics) www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Integrations page www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 API documentation www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Documentation help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Pricing page www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 About page www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Terms of service (names the operating company) www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Privacy policy www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Security / trust page www.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Desk, room & parking booking — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Desk, room & parking booking — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Check-in, auto-release & booking rules — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Check-in, auto-release & booking rules — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  18. 18 Hybrid work coordination — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  19. 19 Hybrid work coordination — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  20. 20 Occupancy analytics & employee privacy — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  21. 21 Occupancy analytics & employee privacy — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  22. 22 Integrations, identity & administration — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  23. 23 Integrations, identity & administration — found from sitemap help.mapiq.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →