What Vantage does
What does Vantage do, and how does the Norims edition differ?
Elly runs Westlands Trading, a wholesaler with a depot in Westlands and a hub in Industrial Area. Her sales live in the till system and her stock in spreadsheets. She wants one place where her team can see revenue by facility without anyone building reports by hand.
Vantage is that place. It hosts the data for you: you load it, describe it once, and then chart it, query it and share it.
What you can do
| Job | Where | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Bring data in from CSV or Parquet files, a database sync, Airbyte or OpenFN | Data, More → Integrations | Upload a file, Connect a source |
| Name measures and dimensions once, so every chart counts the same way | Data → Metrics | Metric models |
| Start from ready-made dashboards for retail, wholesale, CRM and more | Catalog | Starter packs and templates |
| Build dashboards and publish them to your team | Projects | Build a draft, Publish |
| Write read-only SQL and save the queries | SQL Editor | Write and save queries |
| Ask a question in plain words, or have AI draft a dashboard | Ask Vantage | Ask a question |
| Take data out as CSV, Excel, PNG or PDF | Any chart or dashboard | Exports |
Everything happens inside a workspace, which belongs to one company. A workspace holds one or more projects; each project has its own dashboards, saved queries and people. Each workspace has its own warehouse database, and every query is limited to that workspace on the server.
Vantage and Norims Vantage
Vantage comes in two editions. The features above are the same in both; what differs is how you get in and how you pay.
| Vantage | Norims Vantage | |
|---|---|---|
| Name in the app | Vantage by Bytefount | Norims Vantage by Bytefount |
| Sign-up | Create a workspace yourself, with a 14-day trial | Comes with your Norims organisation; you sign in with your Norims account |
| Plans and Billing | Trial, Starter, Growth, Business and Enterprise, managed under More → Billing | No Billing page; your Norims plan decides what you get |
| SQL Editor | Growth plan and above | Always shown |
| Base packs in Catalog | Not offered | Packs over the Norims data feed, from the Norims pack registry |
| AI actions a month | Set by your Vantage plan | Set by your Norims plan: Growth 600, Pro and Enterprise 2,000 |
If you use Norims, see The Norims edition for what your Norims plan includes.
Next
- Create a workspace to start a trial
- Find your way around once you are signed in
- Your first dashboard to go from a CSV to a published dashboard