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    Cube

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ACube is a financial planning & analysis (FP&A) platform that aims to enable finance teams to be more strategic and positively contribute to company growth activities by spending less time on manual, repetitive task, from Cube Planning headquartered in New York.N/A
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    Cube
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    Cube Planning, Inc
    Chose Cube
    Cube lacks a lot of the forecasting and planning capabilities of other FP&A tools in the market, but it excels at providing flexibility in aggregating data from multiple places into a single source of truth and then building reports driven off of that data. Cube is very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Prefer Cube but mainly due to my new company being early stage start up and moving away from excel was not the answer
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube has an easier implementation and functionality is appropriate, quick-to-learn and a perfect match for an organisation of our scale and growth. There is less flexibility in the reporting & formatting in-built in Cube, and it's a far way off the in-built modelling …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube is a much cleaner and quicker tool than PowerBI
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    We needed something that was quick to implement, easy to use, and had a small learning curve. Cube has delivered.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube's ability to create custom reports easily on the fly, fully excel based, and simple to use
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube was the most flexible while still doing everything we need it to do. Because it is a spreadsheet native platform we could quickly and easily integrate it into the processes we already had. While at the same time learning how Cube worked so that we could fully leverage its …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube support team is much more willing to help. Cube product team is adding new features at a faster pace. Cube is more functional within excel. Cube has better version control and general ledger organization. Cube customer service is incredibly helpful and their team is full …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube was chosen because of its price, customer support and ease to integrate and learn. my team learned it pretty fast and their customer support team consists of ex-fpa folks so they know the problems that the users deal with on a day to day. they gave us a good plan to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube was just a lot easier to use than Vena. We took some time to look at Vena as well and while their product was impressive, our organization was not yet there. We needed something we could implement quickly, and in today's day and age I think that is a very important quality …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube is a much simpler and easier to use platform compared to its competitors. The setup was extremely easy, and required almost no help from IT. The big standout difference was the cube support team though. They were available from start to finish when implementing the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Ease of use, simple, customized, cost effective, super user friendly, excel based integration, drilldown.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Causal is a much more sophisticated product, but would require that we completely switch away from all of our current models and using google sheets. Cube allowed us to continue operating as is, but with a quicker data connection.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Workday Adaptive Planning was too cumbersome to implement. It was expected to take 6 months to implement it + teething issues. This would be after you know exactly what you want.
    With our business that is going through significant growth year on year and things rapidly changing, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    90% of what Hyperion offered Cube offers. Cube is missing the drill down feature which I believe is its biggest flaw. If you have revenue you cant double click on revenue and have it blow out all the revenue accounts at the lowest level. For companies that have hundreds …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube Planning's ability to integrate with multiple softwares as well as excel and sheets really set it apart from the competition.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    I guess Oracle PBCS is more suitable for a larger organization. Thus with a small company lie us that require agile planning and reporting, it's not as good of a fit.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube is a much more cost-effective tool that is also much simpler for the business to manage. It does not require an in-house IT team and the admin functionalities are very straightforward.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    We switched to Cube because of its ease of use. Adaptive had way too many moving parts and was too restrictive for what we were trying to achieve. With a small Finance team, it was hard to have multiple people be power users of Adaptive vs Cube which was extremely intuitive for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Other products are more robust than Cube Planning (Anaplan, Vena) but the price tag is also way higher. Cube Planning provides us with flexibility, customer support, and overall great value for money
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    I was not a part of the search process but I really like using Cube.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Planful was just a bit too advanced (and costly) for what we needed at this point of our company (much like Adaptive). With those types of platforms, you really do need a consultant to help create the needs specific to your personal business, which ends up adding costs. Causal
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube Planning is more flexible and integrates more easily with Google Sheets and Excel.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube is more affordable than other finance products that are out there. I have also tried Plan Guru, but ran into issues as Plan Guru desktop version was only for PC's and cloud version did not have the same capabilities as the desktop version, so it was a catch-22.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    It was the ease of implementation, the speed to be up and running, the competitive price, and the continued support that sold us on Cube compared to other software.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    52 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    54 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    Features
    Cube
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    7.5
    21 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.96 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards6.418 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.318 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.9
    47 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Drill-down analysis9.646 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.435 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.06 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.828 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.4
    21 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Publish to Web8.211 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.511 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.515 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.48 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.6
    12 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.811 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.18 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.87 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.84 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    9.3
    40 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.233 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.530 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.231 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.09 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.625 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    9.3
    10 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.79 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.93 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.24 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Long-term financial planning6.545 Ratings
    Financial budgeting8.951 Ratings
    Forecasting7.349 Ratings
    Scenario modeling6.644 Ratings
    Management reporting8.351 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.5
    49 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Financial data consolidation8.944 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports9.623 Ratings
    Multi-currency management7.113 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations8.514 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.09 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting10.020 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails8.232 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.2
    54 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Financial Statement Reporting8.745 Ratings
    Management Reporting7.948 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting9.249 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting6.538 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing8.95 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.1
    37 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Personalized dashboards8.030 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.515 Ratings
    KPIs8.128 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis8.228 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting7.722 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data9.211 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Cube
    Feature
    Cube
    8.9
    46 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Flat file integration9.035 Ratings
    Excel data integration9.538 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.338 Ratings
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    Cube
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cube
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (58 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cube
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cube Planning, Inc
    1) The budget process. In QBO the budgeting capability is non-existant, unless you like manually typing in every scenario and not being able to budget by class. Cube houses my budget/forecast scenarios & lets me view and analyze by my company's preferred data points; department, GL account, vendor, & sales campaign. I'm able to run monthly budget variance reports and plan for the future with ease. 2) We've begun using Cube to help analyze profitablity by sales job. We've never had such easy access to this type of info in the past, so this is a benefit I can directly attribute to Cube. 3) We're beginning now to use an integration with our payroll software to work on headcount planning and payroll analysis.
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    Pros
    Cube Planning, Inc
    • Push/pull information across any Google Sheet or Excel workbook.
    • Budget at a much more granular level (by month by account by the department by vendor).
    • Custom mapping to allow for multiple cuts of the same data.
    • Bulk range selection within a workbook.
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    Cons
    Cube Planning, Inc
    • Limited to 8 top line dimensions. Although you can bring in as many attributes of data as you want, but I would really like Cube to increase top line dimensions to 10.
    • The ability for cross level interaction within multiples cube would be a major plus once implemented.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cube Planning, Inc
    Cube was just a lot easier to use than Vena. We took some time to look at Vena as well and while their product was impressive, our organization was not yet there. We needed something we could implement quickly, and in today's day and age I think that is a very important quality to have. Start up and early stage companies do not have the luxury of implementation teams and massive IT resources so Cube was a huge help.
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    Return on Investment
    Cube Planning, Inc
    • It has decreased the amount of time it takes to build reports by days
    • I can rest easy knowing the knowledge is accurate and there is no human error
    • I have been able to create more reports than I ever dreamed of with the new time and ease of use
    Incentivized
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