European alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint
SharePoint is the backbone of countless corporate intranets: document libraries, team sites and workflow automation, bundled into Microsoft 365. It's powerful enough to run a whole company's internal web, but that scale makes it a prime target for attackers — and it's tightly bound to Microsoft's US-hosted cloud.
Company information about Microsoft SharePoint
- Company
- Microsoft Corporation
- Headquarters
- Redmond, United States
- Founded
- 2001
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Own infrastructure
Why people switch away from Microsoft SharePoint
A critical breach in 2025
A zero-day dubbed ToolShell let attackers run code on self-hosted SharePoint servers without logging in; Microsoft rushed an emergency patch in July 2025 after nation-state hacking groups exploited it against governments and businesses worldwide.
Bundling ruled anti-competitive
SharePoint sits inside the same Microsoft 365 bundle the EU investigated in 2023 for tying Teams to Office; Microsoft agreed in 2025 to unbundle its apps worldwide to avoid a fine that could have reached $24.5 billion.
Answers to US law
Microsoft is a US company, so SharePoint content sits under the CLOUD Act, with European data sovereignty offered contractually rather than by jurisdiction.
Everyday annoyances
- Notoriously complex to administer. Permissions, site structures and workflow settings have a well-earned reputation for needing a dedicated administrator just to keep straight.
- Search that undersells itself. Finding a file buried in nested SharePoint sites is a common complaint, despite Microsoft's repeated attempts to overhaul search.
- Deep 365 lock-in. SharePoint is wired into Teams, OneDrive and Outlook so tightly that untangling files from the ecosystem becomes a genuine migration project.
- Sync client quirks. The OneDrive client that mirrors SharePoint libraries locally has a long history of conflicts, duplicate files and stalled uploads.
- Confusing licensing. What's included depends on which 365 tier you're on, and working out whether a feature needs an upgrade isn't always obvious.
European alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.