Cube Cloud

Cube  is the best absolute best FP&A software, dollar for dollar out there. My organization looked at a few different tools and none of them came close to Cube  in terms of the value that we get from it now. We really wanted three different things for our organization: automated financial reporting, ease of financial review, and assistance with budget and flux models. Cube was the only software that really let a bunch of us non-technical users at my organization accomplish all of our goals without sacrificing anything.

Cube easily integrates into Excel and makes it simple for us to plug it right into our template and roll it forward. Our FP&A team has been able to utilize this software exceptionally well. Their forecasting and budgeting has been top-notch and faster.

Regarding how Cube fits into my workflow, it is extremely simple to set up and easy to run. The website portal is very clean and well-organized, making it possible to create forecast or budgeting scenarios with just a click of a button.

A specific example of how my team uses Cube in our day-to-day work is that above all, Cube has vastly enhanced our ability to get financial reporting done quickly and free up our time to really dig deep into various accounts. This has greatly improved the accuracy of our financial results beyond what you would even believe.

The clean portal and organization help my team by making it easy to navigate and the data collected is very clean and managed in an understandable manner, hence making it very easy to make data-driven decisions.

Regarding the features, customer service is great, customization of financial reports, ease of integration with other tools seamlessly, continuous system testing and upgrades, and easy creation of monthly and P&L variance analysis. Data import and export is smooth and efficient. Monthly reporting and analysis is easy to pull and update.

The positive impact Cube has had on my organization includes additional time for analysis, less than budgeted spend, and more accurate financial results resulting in better decisions. The error rate has reduced from 40 to 50%.

The reduction in errors has affected my team and the business overall by improving speed and efficiency for month-end close processes. Better consolidation of data for long-term trend analysis is evident, and easy P&L creation and variance analysis has been great.

Cube can be improved by enhancing data refresh over multiple tabs. The speed at which data is imported can also be improved.

Additionally, Cube needs to add functionality for headcount planning.

I have been using Cube for four years and a few months.

Cube is stable as I have not experienced any downtime or logging issues.

Cube's scalability is very good because it handles my organization with great efficiency.

Customer support for Cube is very responsive and solution-oriented.

I previously used Workday Adaptive Planning  and I switched to Cube because it lacks a lot of the features that Cube provides.

I chose a nine out of 10 for Cube because it is very easy to use even for us non-technical users. It has a very intuitive, user-friendly interface. It has helped us improve speed and efficiency for month-end close processes. We have gotten better consolidation of data for long-term trend analysis. The setup is very easy and required almost no help from IT, which is a big plus.

Cube's ability to create custom reports easily on the fly is impressive. It is fully Excel-based and simple to use. Integration was extremely simple. It is simple to create custom reports on the fly, and easy to review financial performance by each department, which enables greater transparency in departmental-level budgeting.

I have seen a return on investment as Cube has streamlined the creation of monthly close packs, helped business partners better understand their monthly P&Ls, and allowed for more granular BVA reporting.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the price is very cost-effective and licensing is very affordable, making it a great financial reporting tool for startups.

Before choosing Cube, I evaluated other options, including OnePlan.

Cube is well-suited to help save time on financial reporting if you need to refresh the same templates each month. It is also great for building templates and pulling in data directly from Excel or Google Sheets. However, it is less appropriate for companies that run into issues with uploading large sets of transaction data, and it does not have robust planning or forecasting features that you will find in other FP&A tools competitors. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services  (AWS )

What do you like best about the product?

I find Cube to be a very sophisticated product that allows me to design complex metrics and dimensions in a scalable and composable way. I also appreciate the useful caching (preaggregation) layer. Having a strong common semantic layer is key for us as a data product company serving dashboards and insights to our customers.

What do you dislike about the product?

The service provided by the cloud team is horrible. We are a paying customer, with an annual commitment, and are having big issues when scaling that are not being solved by them. We don't have visibility into what is happening.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cube closes the gap between our data model and business metrics, supporting complex metric design with a scalable semantic layer and a useful caching layer.

What do you like best about the product?

Cube is a platform that presents the data in a very clear way. When we do the selection of column, it can also automatically generate sql code for SSMS. The query history is also great for tracking the error. When there's any problem, cube dev team is super easy to access, and they respond very fast. They really provide a strong tech support.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes they query history loaded longer than expected.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It can show data very clearly and allow me to select any column to see the data in an easy way.

What do you like best about the product?

I'm using CubeJS for a lot of data apps on my company and it is really incredible for leveraging data for my applications. I also use CubeJS daily for manual analytics, like taking a look at the charts or copying some data to perform some stronger statistical analysis.

The interface simplicity of consumption for REST APIs is really powerful for integrating in any language and maintaining a standardized consumption around the tech ecosystem.

This can also be used as a "Feature Store" of some sorts, together with the preAggregations layer, for ML and AI applications, making it really really simple to roll them out.

I've already used the Customer Support and their response was really fast and the person helping me was also really proactive.

The ability to test changes to a cube or creating a cube via Git branches is **really powerful**! It really helps!

Finally, implementing cubes, measures, and also configuring dimensions is way too simple: we use it to connect to BigQuery and maintaining the semantics of metrics on CubeJS, which makes it so easy to understand data.

What do you dislike about the product?

I still think documentation is a bit confusing for some features.

I've faced some issues with preAggregations where some measuers were they were being summed instead of being averaged over for `avg` types. Some logic for the `rollup` timeout is a bit confusing.

Although the REST API interface doens't really need any framework, I feel that a simple SDK providing the objects for serialization would be nice to have.

Some more complex charts in the Playground would also be nice to have, together with a simple export like CSV/JSON from the Playground (I do understand that the Playground is... a Playground... but sometimes I use it as an analytics tool to fetch some informations).

I think that we also lack a propert LSP (or a type checker) for Cube on Javascript. Sometimes I makes some mistakes that are related to Cube JS syntax (use of AI on the Code Editor also makes it more prone to error). This would be really helpful. Some features can only be tested once in production (like preAggregations syntax), which makes it a bit harder to integrate.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

CubeJS helps me solve the issue of integrating data from multiple sources to Applications: from general software to AI-powered applications, CubeJS allows us to have low latency data fetching and only worrying with what to do with the data.

What do you like best about the product?

Using CubeJS Cloud to build our semantic layer has been great! It really just takes a lot of development effort off our shoulders. This is especially great for small teams that don't have DevOps engineers available to help create and monitor a platform. The development and maintenance have been simple to maintain. Their support is also great where I could solve a build issue with a live chat in a short time. There are many features including different endpoints to consume data, which makes embedding analytics into our product straightforward.

What do you dislike about the product?

I still feel that integration with BI tools is not totally straightforward yet, some query aggregations fail and require some tweaks. I still have to test the new "Semantic Layer Sync" feature. Also, a thing that was very great about dbt metrics that I miss here in CubeJS is the ability to create a new metric based on other metrics as long as they have the same time granularity, CubeJS could find a way to implement something flexible as this as well.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use all major features: serving metrics on endpoints, embedded analytics in our product front-end, and feed BI tools.