We Help You to Be Confidently Sovereign
Why your path to digital sovereignty is just as unique as your organization
Digital Sovereignty According to Your Needs
The crucial question is no longer whether, but how you can achieve digital sovereignty without losing your innovative strength or limiting the scalability of your IT and your business. We support you in securing your digital ability to act and turning resilience into a strategic strength. We are already helping organizations sharpen their strategic focus and confidence. Together, we develop solutions that fit your reality. For us, this means one thing above all: freedom of choice.
There is no either/or between technology partners, locations, or cloud strategies. What matters is that you have control over your data, can adapt critical processes, and identify and mitigate risks. With a smart balance of security, scalability, and flexibility, we create solutions that enable true independence—without compromising performance, innovation, or competitiveness.
In short, we give you the ability to be confidently sovereign. So that you, as a company, can make clear and self-determined decisions.
Decide with Confidence
We support you in determining your individual sovereignty requirements, assessing risks and developing a clear, practicable path to digital sovereignty.
Your structured introduction to digital sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is not a "One Size fits all". Every organization has individual requirements and, accordingly, individual characteristics. In our orientation workshop, we work together to determine what digital sovereignty means for your organization in concrete terms - strategically, professionally and technologically.
In focus:
Integrating digital sovereignty into your organizational and IT strategy
Determine the location of your current IT and cloud landscape
Determination and prioritization of concrete fields of action
Definition of a realistic and result-oriented roadmap
Result: A common target picture and a prioritized overview of relevant topics and areas of action - as the first resilient building block on your path to digital sovereignty.
Assessing digital sovereignty based on specific risks
Digital sovereignty is determined where dependencies, regulatory requirements, or technological lock-in create concrete risks. We systematically identify these risks, assess their impact on your organization, and make your level of sovereignty transparent. On this basis, we analyze your existing IT and cloud landscape and define targeted measures to strengthen your digital sovereignty sustainably.
In focus:
Identification of critical dependencies (e.g., cloud providers, proprietary technologies, data access)
Assessment of regulatory, operational, and technological risks
Analysis of your scope for control and action in data, operational, and technology sovereignty
Result: A coordinated assessment report with a transparent risk list and prioritization, an individual sovereignty profile, and concrete, actionable recommendations for targeted risk reduction.
Anchoring digital sovereignty at a strategic level
Digital sovereignty is not a singular IT measure, but a strategic, cross-sectional requirement with implications for technology, Governance, risk management, and value-creation architecture across the entire company. We support you in systematically integrating digital sovereignty into your existing strategy landscape, aligning it consistently and anchoring it sustainably. The aim is to develop a resilient, connectable and implementation-oriented overall strategy for digital sovereignty.
In focus:
Strategic positioning, target definition, and derivation of clear guard rails
Strategic integration into the strategy landscape & alignment
Operationalization path (roadmap, operational fields of action, measures)
Management enablement & decision support
Result: A market analysis, a structured strategy paper, and a management summary to strengthen digital sovereignty in your company
Digital Sovereignty as a Mandate for Shaping the Future
Arvato Systems works with you to identify your individual requirements and translates them into concrete technical and organizational solutions - from secure Cloud architectures, modern data platforms, to resilient operating models.
Digital sovereignty means more than just choosing a cloud platform. It encompasses architecture, data strategies, operating models, governance, and security and compliance. The cloud is a key enabler here - but always part of a holistic approach. A decisive lever is the Cloud architecture. It forms the foundation for scalability, innovation, and technological independence.
Multicloud is therefore a central element of our digital sovereignty. Through sovereign multi-cloud architectures, we create freedom of choice and the ability to switch. We combine hyperscaler technologies with sovereign operations- and data models - from Delos Cloud to Sovereign Services up to On-Prem-Setups. This gives organizations control over where and how their workloads are run.
Understand. Securing. Shape.
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers About Digital Sovereignty
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What does digital sovereignty mean for companies in Germany and Europe?
Digital sovereignty means for companies in Germany and Europe that digital technologies, Cloud Services, data, and IT infrastructures are used in a self-determined, secure, and legally compliant manner. The focus here is on data sovereignty, freedom of choice, and control, regardless of whether European or international technology providers are used. The aim is to minimize digital dependencies and secure our long-term ability to act in the European legal area.
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Why is digital sovereignty so important for German and European companies?
For companies in Germany and the EU, digital sovereignty is a key competitive factor. Regulatory requirements such as GDPR, NIS2, or DORA, geopolitical risks, and increasing cyber threats make it clear: Those who do not have control over data, Cloud-Infrastructures, and digital processes risk restrictions on their processes and risks to their entrepreneurial ability to act. Digital sovereignty protects against Vendor Lock-ins, increases resilience, and creates strategic security.
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Is digital sovereignty synonymous with complete independence or self-sufficiency?
No. Digital sovereignty does not mean giving up international cloud providers or modern platform technologies. Rather, it is about making conscious decisions: companies retain control over data, risks, and dependencies—regardless of where and with which technologies they work. Digital sovereignty means freedom of choice instead of coercion.
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What role does cloud sovereignty play in digital sovereignty?
It ensures that companies can use cloud technologies without losing control over data, access, and compliance.
In Germany and Europe in particular, the question of where data is processed, which jurisdiction it is subject to, and how change and exit scenarios are structured is becoming increasingly important. Sovereign cloud strategies combine scalability with European legal compliance.
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How can companies avoid vendor lock-in and strengthen their digital sovereignty?
Digital sovereignty is achieved through strategic architecture and technology decisions. These include:
- Open standards and interoperability
- Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategies
- Data and workload portability
- Clear exit and switching strategies
- Transparent governance and control mechanisms
This is how companies secure their technological freedom of choice and remain flexible in the long term.
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How does Arvato Systems support companies on the path to digital sovereignty?
Arvato Systems accompanies companies with a holistic approach: from strategic consulting to the implementation of technology and Cloud selection up to the implementation of sovereign IT-Architectures. Arvato Systems is the German sovereign operator of the DELOS cloud and thus also offers companies operational services. The following applies: Sovereignty is not One-Size-Fits-All.
We develop solutions that fit your regulatory requirements, your business model, and your individual sovereignty needs - so that you can be sovereign.
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