A BambooHR alternative for GDPR first teams

BambooHR is a polished US cloud product. If your data protection officer keeps asking where exactly the employee records live, the honest answer is: in BambooHR's cloud, under US jurisdiction. Keanan answers differently: on your servers, in your region, or in a managed private instance whose location you choose.

The short version

	BambooHR	Keanan
Hosting	US cloud	Your servers, or a managed private instance in your region
Data residency	Vendor decides	You decide
Pricing	Per employee, per month	One time license (self hosted) or flat monthly (managed)
Branding	BambooHR branded	White label: your name, logo and colors
Core HR, PTO, time tracking, expenses, documents	Yes	Yes
Mobile app	Yes	Yes, points at your instance
ATS and performance reviews	Mature	Not included
Reporting marketplace	Large	Focused built in reports plus full database access

When BambooHR is the better choice

If you want hiring pipelines, performance cycles and a big integration marketplace, and cloud hosting in the US is acceptable to your compliance team, BambooHR is a fine product. No point pretending otherwise.

When Keanan wins

• GDPR, client contracts or sector rules require employee data on infrastructure you control.
• You want one bill you can predict, not a per seat subscription that grows with headcount.
• You need the platform to carry your brand, not the vendor's.
• You value full database access over a reporting marketplace: it is your Postgres, query it.

Try it against your real org

A free 14 day pilot spins up a private Keanan environment with its own domain and database in about ten minutes. Import your people from CSV and see the whole thing running before you talk to anyone.

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