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Category median

Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Easy Software · www.easyproject.com

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The Data Protection Officer

Weighted verdict

Reads the DPA before the feature list. Optimizes for GDPR posture: EU hosting, subprocessor exposure, deletion guarantees. Rejects anything that cannot answer where the data lives.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

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Collaboration depth

How this is scored

How much real multi-person project work the tool carries: shared planning, assignments, dependencies, workload, comments, guest access.

0 — A personal task list; a second user has no defined place in it.

3 — Tasks can be shared and assigned, but planning stays per-person — no shared timeline, workload or dependency view.

5 — Solid shared projects with assignments, comments and at least one team-level planning view; gaps appear in cross-project or capacity planning.

8 — Team-level planning is first-class: cross-project views, workload/capacity, dependencies, guest or client access with sane permissions.

10 — Handles the full span from two freelancers to a structured department in one model — planning, capacity, permissions and client involvement all without workarounds.

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The Data Protection Officer

Unlimited projects and Earned Value Management imply team-scale, cross-project planning exists, yet the evidence never evidences assignments, comments, dependencies, workload views or guest access — silence on the criterion's core surfaces caps this below rubric level 5. 2

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Reporting

How this is scored

Whether the tool can answer questions about the work: progress, time, budgets, utilization — and export the answer.

0 — No reporting beyond looking at the board.

3 — Fixed per-project status views only; nothing aggregates across projects and nothing exports cleanly.

5 — Useful standard reports (progress, tracked time) with basic filters and CSV export, but limited customization and no budget/utilization depth.

8 — Configurable cross-project reporting incl. time, budgets and utilization, with dashboards and reliable exports.

10 — Reporting is a product in itself: custom report builder, scheduled delivery, API access to every metric the UI shows.

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The Data Protection Officer

EVM is genuine budget-and-schedule reporting and custom fields with formulas give configurable metrics, which goes beyond 'standard reports' — but no export path, dashboard, or time/utilization evidence appears anywhere, and I cannot credit what is not on record. 2

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Integrations

How this is scored

How well the tool connects to the rest of the stack: native integrations, calendar/comms hooks, API and webhooks, import/export paths.

0 — A closed box — no API, no integrations, CSV out if anything.

3 — A handful of marquee integrations, no public API or an API that covers a fraction of the product.

5 — The common set (calendar, Slack/Teams, file storage) plus a documented public API; automation platforms partially covered.

8 — Broad native catalogue, well-documented API and webhooks, first-class automation-platform support and real import paths from competitors.

10 — Ecosystem-grade: everything in 8 plus the tool is itself extensible (apps/plugins, AI/MCP surfaces) and exit via API export is complete.

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The Data Protection Officer

A 'powerful API' plus an official n8n partnership claiming 1,800+ ready-made integrations, alongside native GitLab/GitHub, takes automation-platform coverage past 'partial' — but webhooks, import-from-competitor paths, and a native catalogue beyond dev tooling are all unevidenced. 1 2

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Onboarding effort

How this is scored

Time and friction from signup to first real value for a small team, without paid services.

0 — No self-serve path — onboarding starts with a sales call and an implementation project.

3 — Self-serve exists but the first project requires configuration a newcomer cannot judge yet (workflows, custom fields, permissions) before anything works.

5 — A team gets a first project running within a day; trial requires payment details or key steps live behind docs.

8 — Signup to working project inside an hour: guided setup, sensible defaults, templates, trial without payment details.

10 — Minutes to value even for non-tool-people, importers pull existing work in, and the tool teaches its own advanced features as the team grows into them.

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The Data Protection Officer

A self-serve trial with no credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee get a team in the door, but nothing evidences templates, guided setup or importers, and the product's own pitch (custom fields with formulas, EVM, on-prem options) signals real configuration before first value. 1 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the company and the data actually sit: legal entity, ownership control, data residency, and subprocessor exposure to non-EU jurisdictions.

0 — Non-European vendor, data on US infrastructure under US law, no DPA worth the name.

3 — DPA and GDPR language present, but hosting defaults to the US or ownership sits outside Europe — compliance paperwork over substance.

5 — EU data residency is available and contractually fixed, but the vendor or its controlling owner is non-European, or core subprocessors put data within CLOUD Act reach.

8 — European company under European control with EU-resident data and a public DPA; remaining exposure is limited to identifiable subprocessors (e.g. a US hyperscaler's EU region) and is documented.

10 — European company, European control, EU-only data residency on European infrastructure, subprocessor list free of extraterritorial reach — verifiable, not asserted.

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The Data Protection Officer

Easy Software sits in Prague with a 'Made in the EU' posture, geo-located cloud including EU residency, plus private cloud, managed server and full on-premises — for those deployment modes I can answer exactly where the data lives. But there is no DPA, no subprocessor list and no deletion guarantee on record, US/Canadian residency options mean EU treatment must be contractually pinned, and the structured sovereignty section is empty; strong substance, unproven paperwork. 1 2

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Support & documentation

How this is scored

Whether a stuck user gets unstuck: docs quality, support channels and their availability per plan, and the health of the learning surface.

0 — No docs beyond marketing pages; support is a contact form that may answer.

3 — Docs exist but are thin or stale; support on entry plans is effectively email-only with slow turnaround.

5 — Searchable help center covering the core product; chat or email support on all plans with reasonable response times.

8 — Deep, current docs incl. onboarding guides and templates; fast chat support not gated to top tiers; visible changelog.

10 — Docs, academy, community and support so good they are a reason to buy; SLAs published, support quality independent of plan.

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The Data Protection Officer

An online knowledgebase, customer service desk, dedicated CSM and a published 99.9% cloud uptime SLA clear the bar for existence at rubric level 5 — but the evidence says nothing about doc depth or currency, chat availability per plan, response times, or a visible changelog. 2

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Can a buyer determine the real, payable cost of the tool for their team before talking to anyone?

0 — No public pricing at all — every number sits behind "contact sales".

3 — Some tiers are public, but a deciding factor (seat minimums, mandatory add-ons, billing-period surcharge, tax treatment) only surfaces at checkout or in fine print.

5 — Self-serve tiers are publicly priced and the billing-period difference is stated, but the headline number still needs qualifying — e.g. annual-only headline, taxes excluded without saying so, or an opaque enterprise tier doing real work.

8 — Every self-serve tier is fully priced with billing periods and tax treatment plain on the page; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Every tier including enterprise has a public price or published price formula, and the headline number is the number on the invoice.

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 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 EU optional ⚠ unverified 1/3 pts 2 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

Where this could be wrong

What we left out

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Sources (15)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.easyproject.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor pricing page www.easyproject.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Security / trust page www.easy8.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Terms of service www.easy8.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Terms of service — found from the homepage www.easy8.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Collaboration depth — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Reporting — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Reporting — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Onboarding effort — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Support & documentation — found from sitemap www.easy8.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →