Data sovereignty · Servers owned by the campus
Your campus data never moves to our servers.
Data sovereignty at Sikoola means every app is installed on servers or cloud owned by the university, not on Sikoola's servers. Student records, grades, quality documents and finances, together with their backups, stay in the university's hands during the contract and after it ends.
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Two ways to keep data
Who holds the data when the contract ends?
This question is rarely asked when choosing an app, and most often regretted afterwards.
A typical subscription cloud app
- Campus data is stored on the provider's servers.
- Backups are made and held by the provider.
- When the subscription stops, the university has to ask for an export of its data.
- The provider decides where the servers are.
Sikoola apps
- The apps are installed on servers or cloud owned by the university.
- Backups are made where the university decides, and the university holds them.
- When the contract ends, the data is already in the university's hands.
- The university decides where the servers are.
Why it matters
Years of accreditation evidence belong to the campus, not the vendor.
Quality data is gathered little by little over years. Losing access to it means starting again.
- Today
Grades, quality documents and financial transactions are recorded every day in the systems the university uses.
- Three years from now
Those records become the evidence of a quality cycle that assessors ask for at the highest rating.
- When you change vendors
If the data sits on someone else's servers, the university has to wait and hope the export is complete.
How it works
How Sikoola keeps data on campus
- 01
The university provides its own server or cloud
It can be a server in the campus data room or a cloud account in the university's name. Our team helps work out what is needed.
- 02
The apps are installed there
The Sikoola team installs the apps and connects them to the academic system the university already uses, through an API we build.
- 03
Backups are set up where the university chooses
The backup schedule and location are agreed together, and the backups are kept somewhere the university controls.
- 04
The contract ends, the data stays
Whether on subscription or a one-time licence, the data and its backups never need moving, because they never left the campus in the first place.
What to know from the start
The data is the university's. The app code stays Sikoola's.
We state this plainly so there is no misunderstanding later.
- Subscription or one-time licence The university picks the scheme that fits its budget. In both, the university controls the servers and the data.
- A one-time purchase is a licence to use The university has the right to use the app. Copyright and source code remain with Sikoola, so the app may not be modified, copied or resold.
- Sikoola does not keep campus data Student, lecturer and financial data is not copied to Sikoola's servers.
- This website does not store what you type either The proposal form on sikoola.com only opens a WhatsApp message. There is no database behind this site.
Where is campus data stored with Sikoola apps?
On servers or cloud owned by the university itself. Sikoola apps are installed there, and backups are made where the university decides. Sikoola does not keep campus data on its own servers.
What happens to the data if the contract with Sikoola ends?
It stays on the university's servers, because it was never moved anywhere else. The university does not need to request an export or wait for a handover.
Does the university need its own server?
It does not have to be a physical server. The university can use a cloud account in its own name. What matters is that the university controls the account and the access. Our team helps work out the server requirements.
What is the difference between a subscription and a one-time purchase?
A subscription is paid periodically for as long as the app is used. A one-time purchase is paid once for a licence to use it. In both, the university controls the data and servers, while copyright and source code remain with Sikoola.
Can apps hosted on campus servers still connect to the academic information system?
Yes. The Sikoola team builds an API to connect the apps to the academic system the university already uses, so nothing has to be retyped.
Ask your vendor today: where is our campus data stored?
If the answer is not “on your own servers”, we are ready to show you another way.
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