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Elium vs Notion

Notion is a great workspace for a fast-moving team. Elium is the trusted knowledge platform for the enterprise – one governed source your teams and your AI answer from.

Global leaders to growing teams, turning knowledge into answers with Elium

L'Oréal
VINCI
BNP Paribas
BCG
Lime
Council of Europe
Restos du Cœur
Servier
ENEDIS
Fnac Darty
SPIE
Savencia

Governance built in

Four clear roles, each with its own job

Readers find answers. Contributors work from a task list. Space and platform administrators run their scope from a dedicated dashboard. Notion gives every team the same flexible pages. Elium gives each role its own tools.

  • Reader, contributor, space administrator, platform administrator
  • Approval flowsbefore anything is published
  • A dashboardfor every administrator, a task list for every contributor

Pilot at every level

Analytics for the article, the space and the platform

Space administrators see usage, approvals and what needs attention; platform administrators see the whole picture, filtered by team. Notion's analytics show activity. Elium's show what is stale, what is missing and where work is blocked.

  • Analytics at content, space and platform level
  • Filterby team to see usage, freshness and gaps
  • Every role sees the view it needsto act

AI you can stand behind

The difference is not the AI – it is what the AI reads

Notion AI answers from the workspace as it is: drafts, duplicates and final pages side by side. Elium's AI reads only governed articles: approved, owned and carrying a review date.

  • Every answer comesfrom an approved, current article
  • Every answer cites its source article
  • Workswith Copilot, agent platforms and Elium's own AI

Delivered everywhere

Answers inside the tools your teams already use

Elium serves answers in Teams, Slack, portals, ITSM tools and your own apps through the API, in every language you work in. Notion is one workspace. Elium goes where the work happens.

  • Chrome and Firefox extension – answers in any tab
  • Deep ITSM integrations: ServiceNow, EasyVista, GLPI
  • Multi-language publishing and translation built in

Independent and European

Independent, European – and easy to leave

Elium has been independently owned for over a decade: built and run in Belgium, ISO 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant, hosted in Europe. And everything exports in open formats. If you ever leave, you leave with everything.

  • Independently ownedfor over a decade
  • European hosting, ISO 27001, GDPR
  • Full export in open formats – no lock-in

Many people speak about Notion and Confluence. But here at Partoo we decided to use Elium to manage our growing company knowledge. It is simpler and responds better to our needs.

Thibault Renouf, CEO – Partoo

We built the governance before we launched. Rules for tagging, templates for different content types, training for community managers. We didn't want to deploy technology and figure out governance later.

Brigitte Baudouin, Project Team – L'Oréal Operations

  • Independently owned for over a decade
  • Based in Belgium
  • ISO 27001
  • GDPR

Switching to Elium is easier than you think.

Get a dedicated onboarding team

You're never in it alone. Our specialists design a knowledge structure around your teams, your workflows and your existing content, not a template.

See our deployment services

Migrate with tools and a team

Our tools and team migrate your Notion content. We keep the structure worth keeping and help you archive the rest. Most teams are live in four to eight weeks.

How switching works

Get support built for knowledge managers

Always-on customer success, a deep help centre, and training for the people who manage knowledge, not just the people who read it.

Talk to an advisor

And your knowledge stays yours: everything exports in open formats, any time.

FAQ

Questions we hearfrom teams switching from Notion

No. Many customers keep Notion for team notes and project work, and use Elium as the trusted knowledge platform for procedures, policies and AI grounding. The two connect through integrations.
Yes. We import Notion exports (HTML or Markdown) and keep the structure worth keeping. Our team helps you decide what to bring, what to archive and what to rewrite. Start with a migration assessment: we look at your workspace and give you a clear plan.
Verification in Notion is a badge with an expiry date – useful, but optional and flat. Elium ships governance as roles: contributors, space administrators and platform administrators each have their own responsibilities, approval flows and analytics. In Elium, governance is how the platform works, not a setting you turn on.
Notion AI also cites its sources. The difference is the content underneath. Notion has no separation between drafts and published pages, so its AI reads work in progress next to final answers. Elium's AI reads only governed articles – each one approved, owned and reviewed on a schedule. Same question, more reliable answer.
Most teams are live in four to eight weeks. The goal is one governed knowledge space running quickly – then expand team by team.
Elium is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant, built and run in Belgium, and hosted in Europe. We work with customers in pharma, finance and the public sector. Full documentation is available in the Trust Center.

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