evidanza
What is evidanza?
Platform for building individual analytics and performance management applications (reporting, analysis, planning) with additional functions for collaboration.
Self-description of evidanza
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Provider and product description
evidanza was established in 2004 as a software vendor developing its own solutions for business intelligence, business planning, and corporate performance management. The company is based in Straubing, Germany, claims to have about 20-30 employees, and currently serves more than 275 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 in local and multinational SMEs. CSS employs over 350 people and serves around 3,000 clients in various industries.
evidanza operates as an independent subsidiary of the CSS Group. The product can be used with the eGECKO – CSS’ ERP software – or as a standalone application with non-CSS applications. Together, evidanza and eGECKO offer companies an integrated business management solution. Within the CSS portfolio, evidanza is marketed as eGECKO CPM.
evidanza offers tools for business intelligence (BI) and analytics, business planning, and business process management (BPM) as well as a middleware solution that integrates systems (data.Synapse). 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 top-down and bottom-up planning including workflow and monitoring features.
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. For example, existing customer implementations use Microsoft, Oracle, or SAP HANA.
Using its own proprietary in-memory database, evidanza can also 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.
Strengths and challenges of evidanza
BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.
Strengths
- Unified software for business intelligence (BI), business planning, and corporate performance management that can be used as a standalone application or integrated into CSS’ ERP software.
- Comprehensive planning, budgeting, and forecasting functionality for all kinds of planning approaches (top-down, bottom-up, or combinations of both), planning topics, and aggregation levels (e.g., strategic as well as operational planning, including financial planning).
- Supplementary integrated functions for standard reporting, ad hoc query, OLAP analyses, and dashboarding.
- Out-of-the-box integrations with over 250 source systems provided by evidanza data.Synapse.
Challenges
- Overall, evidanza has a slow speed of development compared to competitors. According to feedback in The Planning Survey 26, it is rarely used in innovative use cases such as AI-powered planning.
- Customer feedback reveals that some users are dissatisfied with evidanza's self-service capabilities and ease of use. Some customers have said that the software could be more intuitive and user-friendly, while others have even reported unreliable software behavior.
- evidanza is a comparatively small and local specialist vendor with limited resources, strongly focused on its home market in the DACH region. Prospects should evaluate the vendor’s and partners’ consulting and support capabilities for project implementations.
evidanza User Reviews & Experiences
The information contained in this section is based on user feedback and actual experience with evidanza.
The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.
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What users like about evidanza and where the product scores best in a user comparison.
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Individual user reviews for evidanza
Number of employees
Industry
Source
What do you like best?
Der Support der Mitarbeiter. Die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Consulting.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Der Vertrieb antwortet unregelmäßig auf E-Mails, teilweise bedingt durch eine Überforderung durch zu viele Implementierungsthemen.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Das Consulting-Team von evidanza unbedingt für die Implementierung gewinnen!
How would you sum up your experience?
Wir sind hochzufrieden und gerne Kunden und Partner.
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What do you like best?
Dezentrale Planung möglich. Fachlicher Branchensupport.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Salesversprechungen versus Umsetzungsgeschwindigkeit.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Geben Sie dem Produkt genug Zeit für die Einführung und prüfen Sie die Voraussetzungen, insbesondere die Definitionen von Schnittstellen und Quellsystemen. Die Harmonisierung mehrerer Quellsysteme kann eine große Herausforderung darstellen. Es werden User benötigt, die die Quellsysteme sehr gut kennen und die Definition von Feldern in der Datenbank verstehen, um Vergleiche zwischen Äpfeln und Birnen zu vermeiden.
How would you sum up your experience?
Gut, aber man erwartet immer viel und vieles zu schnell. Testphasen einbauen und einhalten, um Fehler in der Breite zu vermeiden, damit die Glaubwürdigkeit des Produkts nicht leidet.
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What do you like best?
Integrierte Planung in einem BI Tool. Branchenwissen der Berater.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Möglichkeit des Self-Service-BI schaffen.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Eine Implementierung der Software macht nur dann Sinn, wenn die Planung in evidanza geschehen soll. Sonst ist es ein mittelmäßiges BI-Tool.
How would you sum up your experience?
BI-Tool ist zufriedenstellend. Beratung von mittelständischen Unternehmen gut und sehr schnell erreichbar.
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What do you like best?
Supportgeschwindigkeit. Implementierungsteam. Software einfach zu nutzen.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Integration Excelbasierte Planung.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Uneingeschränktes GO - als Projektteam arbeiten und sich die Bälle hin und her werfen.
How would you sum up your experience?
Positiv seit Tag 1. Wir fühlen uns sehr gut betreut.
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What do you like best?
Hohe Variabilität.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
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What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Nutzungsbereich und User im Vorfeld definieren und nach den Schulungen sofort in die Umsetzung gehen.
How would you sum up your experience?
Gute Einführungsunterstützung. Die entstandenen Probleme waren meist unternehmensintern begründet.
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What do you like best?
Gute und instinktive Steuerung, leichte Einführung und schnelles Verständnis.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Teilweise lange Antwortzeiten beim Support, langsame Performance bei vielen Usern.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Sehr hilfreich ist, wenn bei den Hauptusern Pivot-Kenntnisse vorhanden sind.
How would you sum up your experience?
Bisher sehr gut mit leicht abfallender Tendenz in Punkto Verfügbarkeit/Erreichbarkeit.
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What do you like best?
Flexible Datenmodelle.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Teilweise Bugs und Schnittstellenproblematiken.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
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How would you sum up your experience?
Sehr kompetentes Team, gute Software, extrem vielfältige Möglichkeiten.
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What do you like best?
Der Support des Evidanza Projektteams ist vorbildlich.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Bisher nichts negatives bekannt.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Nicht auf Vertriebsversprechen setzen, sondern sich die Software und den Support anschauen, was die Technologie wirklich kann (hier ist Evidanza ganz weit vorne).
How would you sum up your experience?
Konstruktives Projekt mit großem Mehrwert für unser tägliches Arbeiten.
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What do you like best?
Endlich eine Branchenlösung für Autohändler die funktioniert. Auch arbeiten dort Entwickler, ITler und Supporter, welche die Branche kennen und verstehen.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
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What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Vom Projektstart bis Fertigstellung 1 Jahr Zeit einplanen.
How would you sum up your experience?
Wir würden es wieder machen.
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What do you like best?
Maßgeschneiderte Lösung auf Bedürfnisse.
What do you like least/what could be improved?
Einsatz von Szenarien. Automatischen Forecasts haben wir nicht im Einsatz, wäre allerdings wünschenswert.
What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?
Genügend Zeit einplanen.
How would you sum up your experience?
Kooperativ und lösungsorientiert
