Bissantz DeltaMaster
What is Bissantz DeltaMaster?
Integrated product for (advanced) analysis, reporting, dashboards and planning. Vast array of intelligent analysis functions for large data volumes (including statistical and advanced analytics methods) and innovative chart types for data-dense reports and dashboards.
- Bissantz DeltaMaster functions (BARC classification)
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About Bissantz DeltaMaster
The information in this section has been provided by the vendor of Bissantz DeltaMaster.
Self-description of the vendor
Business Intelligence without compromise
Experience your data with maximum clarity and business logic: in DeltaMaster, our power tool for analysis, planning and reporting, and the DeltaApp for anyone who wants to know how their company is doing anytime, anywhere. With Bissantz you have your key figures under control!
- Analytical reporting
- Planning, forecasting, simulation
- Business analyses
- Data mining
- Data integration, data modeling, data management
The right solution for all functions
With Bissantz, business applications can be created for every department or functional area – quickly, easily, and in a standardized way. Whether in financial reporting, sales controlling, or personnel management – we make Business Intelligence as simple as it should be.
Visual design standards
Wherever you look, you see right. To perceive data, clear principles are needed that respect the limitations of human perception. Seeing and understanding data correctly and acting accordingly is not an art, but the result of this insight.
Innovation guarantee
Graphical tables, semantic zoom, typographically scaled numbers, haptic reasoning and much more: our research is the foundation on which we build to improve our products for our customers every day. We promise you will benefit from this.
Bissantz DeltaMaster BARC Review & Rating
This section contains our independent analyst views on Bissantz DeltaMaster.
Provider and product description
Bissantz & Company (Bissantz) is a medium-sized software company that was founded in 1996 in Nuremberg, Germany. The company specializes in solutions for demanding data analysis, reporting and planning tasks in business environments. Today, Bissantz has about 100 employees based in locations in Germany (HQ) and Switzerland. Most of Bissantz’s more than 500 customers are in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Worldwide consulting and support are available through certified partners.
Bissantz offers software and consulting services for business intelligence (BI), analytics and planning. Its software portfolio includes front-end and back-end solutions ranging from data integration to ready-to-use BI applications. DeltaMaster, the core product, offers integrated functionality for reporting, analysis and planning for business users. It targets mid-sized and large companies across all industries to support them in controlling and planning business performance. For data integration and multidimensional data modeling, DeltaMaster ETL supports standardized data processing, modeling and transformation procedures. Application Designer is the tool for relational data models. ‘Solutions’ bundle technical, business and process-related building blocks.
The strengths of DeltaMaster lie in its analytic capabilities, which include good support for proactive analyses as well as automated and predefined analytic methods with comprehensive visualization functions. Distributing information as well as quickly understanding and acting on content are strategic topics for Bissantz. Besides its BI and analytics functionality, DeltaMaster can also be used to build or configure planning applications for top-down and bottom-up planning. As a front end, DeltaMaster supports direct connections to popular multidimensional and relational databases.
DeltaMaster offers comprehensive functionality for data analysis (including statistical and advanced analytics methods) with additional capabilities for reporting and dashboards. Dashboards and cockpits serve as a convenient entry point into analysis and reporting applications. They can be built by combining several DeltaMaster reports into a ‘Multiples Report’. Many predefined templates are available in the analytic library (i.e., where each method can be used as the basis of separate reports) or in the shape of ‘Magic Buttons’. In combination with Bissantz Solutions, a complete application-specific briefing book with predefined reports is generated. Users can also build individual static or dynamic reports using pivot tables or predefined analytic methods. DeltaMaster has several options for distributing reports and differentiates between access (i.e., online, offline-static, offline-interactive), output medium (i.e., Windows full client or web client; PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint file; HTML file; mobile briefing book on mobile devices) and delivery type (i.e., push, pull, e-mail, file server, DeltaMaster Repository, Bissantz Service). Analyses generally start from a pivot table (known as a ‘graphical table’) or a wide range of predefined analytical methods. Pivot tables support classical OLAP functions (e.g., drill-down, roll-up, slice and dice) for multidimensional data analysis. Most of them are also available for relational databases. In addition to classical business methods such as concentration, portfolio and cross-table analysis, the product also supports statistical and advanced analytics methods. Two of DeltaMaster’s key strengths are its vast array of intelligent analysis functions for large data volumes and its visualization options for data-dense dashboards.
In terms of planning, DeltaMaster offers all the components business departments need to implement individual planning applications to support top-down and bottom-up planning scenarios. Planning applications can be based on customer-specific data models or Bissantz’s prebuilt planning solutions, which can be adapted to customers’ individual needs. Thanks to the tight integration of planning with reporting and analysis, plan values are not only immediately available for forecasts, simulations and what-if scenarios but can also be used directly within reports and dashboards and compared with actual values. Workflow functionality supports bottom-up planning processes, whereby the planning status of involved parties can be displayed in DeltaMaster dashboards.
Strengths and challenges of Bissantz DeltaMaster
BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.
Strengths
- Integrated product for analysis, reporting, dashboards and planning, available on premises and in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Vast array of intelligent analysis functions for large data volumes (including statistical and advanced analytics methods) and clear concepts for quickly understanding and acting on information.
- Innovative chart types for data-dense reports and dashboards including comprehensive options to implement visual design standards.
- Flexibility in creating individual planning applications with options for top-down and bottom-up planning, supported by workflows and comprehensive capabilities for commenting.
Challenges
- Rather dogmatic product with its own concepts and approaches for the consumption and analysis of data (e.g., red and blue are the only two colors available in the solution).
- Flexible platform for creating tailored planning applications, often for operational and strategic planning use cases. Relatively low level of prefabrication, and many implementations are customized according to individual requirements, which is a real strength of the product. Bissantz’s future strategy strongly focuses on enhancing its planning capabilities, including “solutionizing” the platform to provide use case best practices and to speed up implementation projects.
- No Excel add-in with write-back capabilities Only export of data to and import of data from Excel supported.
- Compared to other midmarket-focused competitors, Bissantz tends to be in the upper price range. However, the cloud version of DeltaMaster offers an alternative for a lower level of initial investment and faster time to value.