Item: Cube
Rating: 6
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cube helps our Company prepare budgets and review operating plans as well as recent company performance. Cube has been super helpful in the monthly and quarterly financial reporting that we do, especially after we integrated QBO into the platform, allowing us to easily pull actual data into Cube. We are also in the process of using cube for forecasting and planning purposes. However, due to an initial difficulty with uploading and integrating our operating model into Cube format, this process has taken a little longer than expected.

Pros and Cons

Cube makes monthly reporting of financial information super easy and automatic!
Cube makes budgeting and planning across departments and teams seamless!
Cube makes performance analysis and budget vs. actual analysis useful.

The report creation could use some ease of use improvements as not making certain labels / associations with Cube is sometimes an issue.
Uploading and integrating an entire operating model to complete forecasting and scenario planning analysis is a very manual and potentially painful process.

Most Important Features

Budget vs Actual Reports
Tags for different departments
Source Data pulls from QBO

Return on Investment

Cube has saved ~5 hours of time each month from monthly management reporting
However, I believe we still have the ability to create more value from the service through uploading our operating model to the program for forecasting and scenario planning

Key Insights

Do you think Cube delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Cube's feature set?

Yes

Did Cube live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cube go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Cube again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Cube is great for monthly reporting and company performance analysis, however, it can be slightly difficult to use when looking to do entire forecasting and scenario planning analysis. The integration process for our operating model has taken some manual effort and it has not been the most straight forward process.

Great for monthly financial reporting but difficult to incorporate entire forecasting and scenario planning with!

Overall Satisfaction with Cube Planning