Rocket.Chat and Damovo Bring Sovereign Communications to German Institutions

Digital sovereignty has become one of the defining questions for European institutions. Governments, defence organizations, and public bodies across the continent are re-examining who controls the infrastructure their operations depend on, and increasingly, the answer matters more than where a server happens to sit.

The switch to sovereign is already underway

Control is determined by law, not location. Most critical IT infrastructure remains subject to foreign jurisdiction regardless of where it's hosted, a reality institutions have watched play out in several specific cases this year alone. European countries, regions, and institutions, including Bavaria, the Netherlands, France, and the ICC, are responding by taking action, and more than 40 public sector bodies across Europe are already switching to sovereign solutions. Communications are following the same logic: where infrastructure can be reached from matters as much as where it sits.

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For German government agencies, defence organizations, and critical infrastructure operators, that means finding a platform that meets this standard without disrupting how they already operate. Rocket.Chat and Damovo work together to deliver exactly that: a sovereign communications platform backed by local consulting, integration, and managed services.

A sovereign platform, delivered into your environment

The platform itself, Rocket.Chat Secure CommsOS®, puts the control directly in the institution's hands. Messaging, voice, video, AI, and mission-critical applications all run on infrastructure the institution owns, whether on-premise, air-gapped, or in a sovereign cloud, so no foreign jurisdiction can reach the data or compel its disclosure. And when primary systems go down, teams stay connected regardless, which matters as much during a crisis as it does during a routine compliance review.

Sovereign, self-hostable messaging along these lines is not new to the German market. What determines its success is integration: whether it fits into a ministry, agency, or operator's existing voice, identity, and security environments, rather than requiring the institution to adapt around it. Damovo provides that integration, delivering customer-specific consulting and solution design, integrating Rocket.Chat into an institution's existing systems, and managing migration, rollout, adoption, and enablement. Following deployment, Damovo continues to provide managed services and ongoing optimization, drawing on expertise across unified communications, networks, security, AI, and customer experience.

"A sovereign platform solves part of the problem. Agencies and institutions still need it integrated into their existing systems and supported over time," said Bruno Weiblen, Head of Global Partnerships & Sales EMEA at Rocket.Chat. "Damovo brings years of experience delivering communications projects in exactly these environments, and that experience is what makes this combination valuable to institutions today."

"For the institutions we work with in defence and the public sector, control over communications is becoming an operational requirement," said Matthias Berchtold, Sales Director Strategic Verticals at Damovo. "What they need is a clear path to sovereign communications that does not require them to rebuild their existing environment. Damovo integrates Rocket.Chat into their infrastructure and takes responsibility for long-term support as security requirements and compliance standards change."

German public sector bodies, defence organizations, and critical infrastructure operators can request a briefing here to learn more about how Rocket.Chat and Damovo work together.

About Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat Secure CommsOS® unifies messaging, voice, video, AI, and mission-critical applications to deliver secure, sovereign collaboration for defence operations, European public sector organisations, and critical infrastructure sectors. Deployable in sovereign cloud infrastructure, hybrid, on-premises, or fully air-gapped environments, it gives organisations complete control of their infrastructure and communications while meeting national data protection requirements. Its open-source foundation gives institutions visibility into the code handling their communications, an option not available with most commercial alternatives. Rocket.Chat is used by governments, defence agencies, and system integrators across Europe, including eu-LISA, the City of Cologne, and the Swedish Electrical Safety Board.

About Damovo

Damovo is a global technology service provider with expertise in unified communications and collaboration, contact centres, enterprise networks, cybersecurity, and managed services. We work with customers to design and integrate technologies into their existing environments and support them throughout the solution lifecycle. With more than 600 employees, we are active across Europe, the United States and the Asia-Pacific region, providing global support in more than 150 countries. By connecting people, processes and systems, we help organisations create secure, reliable and flexible technology environments that meet their technical, operational and regulatory requirements.