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Great for Lean FP&A Teams Looking to Automate Basic Processes!
Updated July 01, 2022

Great for Lean FP&A Teams Looking to Automate Basic Processes!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cube Planning

We use Cube Planning to unlock the latent potential of our FP&A team. Cube freed dozens of hours that used to be dedicated to monthly reporting to instead provide deeper insights into the business. The scope of our Cube usage includes internal/external financial reporting, KPI tracking, and forecast & scenario analysis.
  • 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.
  • Missing suppress zeros functionality in both the data exporter and the spreadsheet add-on.
  • It can be clunky to set up new ranges.
  • It does not aggregate segmented data well. We still pull/calculate those separately.
  • Not sure if this is a fair critique, but I will always want it to work faster.
  • Can fetch/publish from any spreadsheet.
  • It is easy to map data based on custom reporting.
  • It has provided financial transparency to budget owners and enabled the organization to better scale the business.
  • Freed up the FP&A team to provide input on business objectives.
Cube is kind of like "Hyperion-lite." It offers many of the same functionalities (from an analyst's perspective) and is in fact better for a smaller team that wants to own administration over the reporting cube as well. Cube is a much better option for a leaner team.

Do you think Cube delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cube's feature set?

Yes

Did Cube live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cube go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cube again?

Yes

I think Cube works really well for small organizations that need a lean FP&A tool. It has simple functionalities that it does well and really benefits teams that want to continue working out of spreadsheets instead of adapting to another SaaS interface. If one of your top priorities is process improvement and/or automation of basic, recurring FP&A tasks; Cube can work wonders for your team! I would not recommend Cube to a large, complex organization; especially if it can afford a dedicated administrator for the reporting cube. There are other solutions with more functionality (though at a possible trade-off with price and ease of use).

Cube Feature Ratings

8.3
Long-term financial planning
7
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
8
Management reporting
10
7.5
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
6
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
10
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
5
10.0
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
10
2.0
Personalized dashboards
2
Color-coded scorecards
2
Cost and profitability analysis
2
8.7
Flat file integration
8
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
8
1.0
Customizable dashboards
1
Report Formatting Templates
1
5.0
Drill-down analysis
4
Report sharing and collaboration
6
Report Output and Scheduling ()
Not Rated
1.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
1
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated