VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, Nov 20, 2025 — Dassault Systèmes has teamed up with 11 companies in Europe to create the European Sovereign Tech Industry Alliance (ESTIA), a new alliance to advance a sovereign digital future in Europe.
ESTIA is committed to delivering a coordinated approach at the European level that actively promotes European Union sovereignty and the growth of European solutions in the areas of cloud, digital services and technology. Alongside Dassault Systèmes, founding partners in the alliance include: A1 Digital, Airbus, Deutsche Telekom, evroc, OpenNebula Systems, Orange, OVHcloud, Post Luxembourg, Schwarz Digits, Sopra Steria and Telecom Italia.
By cofounding ESTIA, Dassault Systèmes, which has pioneered digital technology innovations for more than 40 years, supports its ambition to become the leading sovereign and sustainable operator of trusted cloud services. Its OUTSCALE brand is the first cloud to receive the highest security certification in Europe, making it a strategic partner in compliance for highly regulated industries and the public sector that prioritize the protection of sensitive data.
Ensuring trust, transparency and long-term resilience in the European cloud market is a must for citizens, the public sector and businesses; that is a prerequisite for future European competitiveness and security. Yet Europe today is facing strong dependencies in cloud technologies.
ESTIA responds to needs for supporting and nurturing an EU technology sector that innovates and expands its competitiveness and independence. The founders of ESTIA have pledged their commitment to work together with EU stakeholders to make digital sovereignty ambitions a reality through the creation of a clear legal definition of sovereign cloud and a strategic public procurement policy to support EU sovereign cloud services as an anchor customer for processing sensitive data.
ESTIA will be formally launched in 2026.
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