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Category median

Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by alfaview GmbH · alfaview.com

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Method and versions

The IT Administrator v1.0 · The Security Officer v1.0 · The Works Council Advocate v1.0 · The Educator v1.0 · The Accessibility Advocate v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v1 · evaluated 16 Sep 2026

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The Accessibility Advocate

Weighted verdict

Judges the product by whether a deaf colleague and a screen-reader user can run the meeting, not merely attend it. Wants live captions, keyboard operation, a published conformance report, and dial-in for people with no usable connection. Treats an accessibility page with no report as a marketing page.

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

Scored by The Accessibility Advocate

The meeting itself

How this is scored

Whether the call works: participant capacity, video and audio quality under load, screen sharing, breakout rooms, moderation, and what happens on a bad connection.

0 — Small meetings only, no screen sharing worth the name, no moderation controls, and the call degrades without telling anyone.

3 — Standard meetings with screen sharing and mute-all, but low participant limits, no breakout rooms and no bandwidth adaptation stated.

5 — Meetings at the scale most teams need with screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, and documented behaviour on constrained connections.

8 — Large meetings and webinars with published capacity limits, per-participant moderation and waiting rooms, layout control, simulcast or adaptive bitrate stated, and reliable behaviour on mobile networks.

10 — Scale and control are engineering claims the vendor stands behind: capacity published per plan and per region, selective forwarding with adaptive quality documented, live streaming, hardware-room support, and diagnostics an admin can read after a bad call.

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The Accessibility Advocate

Published per-room capacities up to 500, unlimited webinar streaming, 50 breakout rooms and simultaneous screen sharing is genuine scale. But the evidence is silent on waiting rooms, mute-all and per-participant moderation, and says nothing about behaviour on a bad connection — a dropped call my people cannot diagnose is a dropped call. 3 1

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Encryption & meeting access

How this is scored

What is actually encrypted and against whom, plus who can get into a meeting. Judged on documented mechanism rather than on the word "encrypted".

0 — Transport encryption only, undocumented; meetings joinable by anyone with a link and no lobby.

3 — TLS in transit and encryption at rest, with the vendor holding all keys; access control is a passcode.

5 — The above plus a lobby or waiting room, host-controlled admission, per-meeting passcodes, and a clear statement that the vendor can technically access media.

8 — Optional end-to-end encryption for meetings with the trade-offs named (which features stop working), documented key handling, SSO-gated joining, and per-meeting access policies.

10 — End-to-end encryption available without surrendering the product — its cryptography documented or open source, key management explained, identity verification for participants, and the vendor stating plainly what it can and cannot see.

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The Accessibility Advocate

Encryption is TLS per BSI guidelines plus at-rest server disk encryption — transport-plus-at-rest with the vendor holding the keys. No end-to-end option, no lobby or host-controlled admission, no per-meeting passcode (two-factor login is account security, not meeting access), and no plain statement of what alfaview can technically see in the media path. 1 3 2

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Reach & accessibility

How this is scored

Whether everyone who needs to join can: browser without an install, dial-in, low bandwidth, guests without accounts, captions and keyboard operation.

0 — A desktop client is the only way in; guests must create an account.

3 — Browser joining exists but is degraded, guests can join by link, and there is no dial-in and no accessibility statement.

5 — Full-feature browser joining without an install, guest access by link, mobile apps, and a stated accessibility posture.

8 — Telephone dial-in with numbers listed, live captions, keyboard-navigable and screen-reader-tested interface, and documented low-bandwidth behaviour.

10 — Reach is designed for: browser parity with the client, dial-in across the regions the customer operates in, live captions and translation, a published accessibility conformance report, and a usable experience on a poor mobile connection.

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The Accessibility Advocate

Browser joining in four browsers, apps on every platform, and a dial-in add-on are the bones of real reach, and registration-free test rooms exist. But there is not one word on live captions, keyboard operation, screen-reader testing or a conformance report — 'live translation' into selected languages is not captioning — and dial-in numbers are not listed. For my deaf colleague this sheet offers nothing at all, which caps it. 3 1

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Recordings, retention & admin control

How this is scored

A recording is personal data about everyone in the room. Who may record, who is told, where it is stored, how long it lives, and what the works council can switch off.

0 — Anyone can record, storage location unstated, no retention rule, no admin policy.

3 — Host-only recording with a notification, but storage region unstated, retention manual, and no organisation-wide policy control.

5 — Admin policy over who may record, participant notification and consent prompt, stated storage region, and manual deletion that works.

8 — Automatic retention and deletion per policy, recordings encrypted at rest with access logged, transcription handled with its own retention rule, and attendance or analytics features that can be switched off for co-determination.

10 — Built for a works agreement: every recording, transcript and analytics feature independently switchable and documented, retention executed and evidenced, an audit trail of who accessed which recording, and no participant-level behavioural scoring at all.

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The Accessibility Advocate

Local recording is included in every tier with no host-only rule, no notification or consent prompt, no retention policy and no organisation-wide switch evidenced. The only mitigations are that alfaview stores no session streams server-side and pledges not to train speech models on transcription data — promises, not governance. 3 1

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Integrations & deployment

How this is scored

Calendar, identity and the wider stack — plus, in this category, whether the product can be run on the customer's own infrastructure at all.

0 — No calendar integration, no SSO, no API; cloud-only with no alternative.

3 — One calendar integration and basic SSO, no API worth building on, cloud-only.

5 — Calendar integration for the major suites, SAML or OIDC SSO, a documented API for scheduling, and room-system support.

8 — The above plus SCIM provisioning, embedding via SDK, webhooks for meeting events, and either a self-hosted option or a documented private-cloud deployment.

10 — Deployment is the customer's choice: a genuine on-premises or private-cloud option with the same features, open protocols or open source, embeddable SDKs, and identity integration that does not require the vendor's directory.

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The Accessibility Advocate

Outlook integration, an included API and MSI packages for managed Windows deployment get it past the basics. But there is no SAML/OIDC SSO, no SCIM, no SDK, no webhooks, no room-system support, and it is cloud-only — streaming to your own server is not self-hosting the product. 3

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where media and metadata are processed, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors carry the traffic. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, media routed through unstated regions, subprocessors unnamed.

3 — EU data residency for storage while media relays or metadata remain non-EU, or the contracting entity sits outside the EU.

5 — EU hosting and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — relays, analytics, support tooling, transcription — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — Media and metadata processed in the EU on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: media never leaves the EU, every subprocessor European, certification published, and an on-premises option that removes the question entirely.

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The Accessibility Advocate

German hosting, a German contracting entity with a Mannheim register entry, and a plain claim that the CLOUD Act finds no application. But the datacenters are unnamed, no subprocessor list exists anywhere in the evidence, and the pipeline itself flags residency and subprocessor exposure unconfirmed — claims I like, but for a buyer who weighs this heavily, unverified claims do not reach the top anchors. 1 2 4

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the annual invoice for their host count — including the capacity, dial-in and recording storage they actually need — from public pages alone.

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

3 — A per-host headline exists, but participant caps, dial-in minutes or recording storage are unpriced or unmentioned.

5 — Per-host prices public with billing period stated and capacity limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (webinar capacity, dial-in, storage) sits in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier and add-on priced publicly with per-host maths, capacity limits, dial-in rates, storage allowances, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given host count, meeting size and recording volume, including overage and per-region dial-in.

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The Accessibility Advocate

Per-room prices with per-room capacities, VAT treatment, billing periods and an annual discount are all public, and local recordings mean no storage line-item. But dial-in, the >500-participant step, support and the streaming platform all sit in unpriced add-ons — and an unpriced dial-in hits exactly the people on no usable connection whom I represent. 3

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 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.

Legal entity	Incorporated in DE	3/3 pts	4 Report an error
Ownership	Not determined	—	uncited Report an error
Data residency	EU only ⚠ unverified	3/3 pts	5 Report an error
Subprocessors	Not determined ⚠ unverified	—	uncited Report an error

Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 11 Sep 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
Weak sourcing — Data residency. Self-declaration on the vendor's own security page, though corroborated by the all-German data-center addresses in the DPA's subprocessor list (S6).
Weak sourcing — Subprocessors. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
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What we left out

A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.

35 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
20 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
12 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
8 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
5 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
4 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us
6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement. Know more? Tell us

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Sources (16)

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

1 Vendor homepage alfaview.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
2 Privacy policy alfaview.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
3 Pricing alfaview.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 11 Sep 2026 Details →
4 Imprint alfaview.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
5 Security / trust page alfaview.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
6 Data processing agreement (dpa) alfaview.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
7 The meeting itself — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
8 The meeting itself — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
9 Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
10 Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
11 Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
12 Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
13 Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
14 Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
15 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
16 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap support.alfaview.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →