evidanza

evidanza was established in 2004 as a software vendor developing its own solutions for business intelligence, corporate planning and performance management. The company is based in Straubing, Germany, has about 20-40 employees and currently serves around 100-200 clients, predominantly in the DACH region. In 2022, evidanza was acquired by CSS, a German business software provider focused on integrated solutions for accounting, controlling and HR (eGECKO) in local and multinational SMEs. CSS employs over 300 people and serves around 3,000 clients in various industries.

evidanza’s product portfolio includes tools for business intelligence (BI) and analytics, planning and business process management as well as data harmonization and automation. The core evidanza product is a flexible platform with capabilities for building individual BI, analytics and planning applications. With no specific market or industry focus, evidanza targets mid-sized companies requiring an integrated reporting, analysis and planning platform. The platform is feature-rich and can be configured individually. It provides comprehensive functionality for various planning scenarios for top-down and bottom-up planning including workflow and monitoring features. evidanza is available as a standalone application or integrated into CSS’ accounting, controlling and HR solutions (eGECKO CPM).

evidanza can either be used with Microsoft SQL Server as the underlying database or with the vendor’s own proprietary in-memory database. Using SQL Server, evidanza can access any source system with SQL Server’s Integration Services ETL product. However, administration and particularly ETL are relatively technical and typically require support from IT or tech-savvy business users. Wizards support modeling of business and structural models as well as planning structures in SQL Server. Business departments can manage ongoing operations as well as build planning models, sub-budgets and budget templates on their own. With the vendor’s proprietary in-memory database, evidanza can be used with any relational database, which serves as a data store to persist the in-memory data (e.g., existing customer implementations use Microsoft, Oracle or SAP HANA).

Using its own proprietary in-memory database, evidanza can integrate with Microsoft Power BI for planning scenarios. evidanza planning screens can be integrated in Power BI’s user interface at front-end level. At data level, planned figures in evidanza are transferred to the Power BI data model and are therefore available in Power BI reports and analyses.