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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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The Security Officer

Weighted verdict

Wants to know what the vendor can see, and reads "encrypted" as a question rather than an answer. Asks which meetings get end-to-end encryption, what stops working when they do, who holds the keys, and who can walk into a meeting with a link.

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

Scored by The Security Officer

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 Security Officer

Capacity is published per tier (100/300/500 per room) with 50 breakout rooms, simultaneous screen sharing, polling and whiteboard — that clears what most teams need. But the evidence is silent on host moderation, waiting rooms, and behaviour on a constrained connection; I cannot tell you who can be ejected from a call or whether it degrades gracefully. 1 3

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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 Security Officer

"Verschlüsselung nach BSI-Richtlinien (TLS)" for data, transport and server disks is the entire story — no end-to-end encryption, no key handling, no statement of what the vendor can technically see. Public test rooms admit anyone without registration and no lobby, passcode or host admission control is evidenced anywhere, so meeting access rests on link possession; the "US backdoor access impossible" claim is marketing, not mechanism. 1 2 3

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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 Security Officer

Browser joining in Edge/Chrome/Firefox/Safari plus apps on every platform is real, and dial-in exists but as an unpriced add-on with no numbers listed. No captions, no accessibility statement, no low-bandwidth documentation; the only no-registration joining evidenced is their public test rooms, so guest access to real meetings is unconfirmed. 1 3

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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 Security Officer

The data-minimisation is genuine: live streams, chat and screen shares are not stored at all, recordings are local, and transcripts are promised not to train speech models. But the governance layer is a void — nothing on who may record, whether participants are notified, retention rules or organisation-wide policies; a works council has nothing to switch off because nothing is documented. 1 3

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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 Security Officer

One calendar suite (Outlook/M365), an "API Ja, inkludiert" with no documentation behind it, MSI packages and 2FA. No SSO, no SCIM, no webhooks, no room systems and no self-hosted option — identity integration stays in the vendor's world and deployment is cloud-only. 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 Security Officer

The German story is consistent: alfaview GmbH registered in Karlsruhe (HRB 730903), German datacentres, ISO 27001 and a BSI label claimed. But no subprocessor list is published, the pipeline could not confirm residency, and the imprint quietly reveals alfatraining GmbH as technical provider of the website — the chain is asserted, not laid out. 1 2 4 3

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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 Security Officer

Three tiers with EUR/month figures, VAT excluded, billing periods, and per-room capacity published — and rooms are licensed per capacity rather than per head, which makes the maths simple. Dial-in and >500-participant rooms sit in unpriced add-ons and enterprise is "Auf Anfrage": computable for a standard deployment, not for one that needs the phone or the big room. 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.

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

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Sources (16)

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

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