Cube vs. DataRails

Cube

DataRails

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cube	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Cube 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
DataRails	Score 9.7 out of 10	N/A	DataRails is an FP&A solution that automatically consolidates data from all existing organizational systems (ERP, GL, CRM, and HR data). It is designed so users can keep working on Excel while benefiting from automated data transformations. The vendor states users will enjoy a 360-degree view of consolidated data for easy reporting, simple visuals, and in-depth analytics. With DataRails, users can perform advanced investigations into data to extract actionable, attainable insights.	N/A

Pricing

Cube

DataRails

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Cube	DataRails
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
	Cube	DataRails
Considered Both Products	Cube AY Anthony Yang Senior Manager, Strategic Finance 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? CR Charly Rogers Senior FP&A Analyst 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 Helpful? Jacob Barden FP&A Manager Chose Cube Cube is a much cleaner and quicker tool than PowerBI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cube We needed something that was quick to implement, easy to use, and had a small learning curve. Cube has delivered. Incentivized Helpful? LB Lawson Brown Sr. Director of Finance Chose Cube Cube's ability to create custom reports easily on the fly, fully excel based, and simple to use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? EK Ethan Kutner Director of Financial Planning and Analysis 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? CR Connor Rainey Senior Accountant 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 Helpful? Andrew DeVito, CPA FP&A Manager 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 Helpful? Gregory Bleier, CPA, MBA Controller Chose Cube Ease of use, simple, customized, cost effective, super user friendly, excel based integration, drilldown. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? AS alex sharpe Sr Finance Manager 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Nicholas Jacoby Senior Director 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? FM Francisco Meyo Controller 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cube I was not a part of the search process but I really like using Cube. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cube Cube Planning is more flexible and integrates more easily with Google Sheets and Excel. Incentivized Helpful? KD Kristina Delvalle VP of Finance 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful?	DataRails No answer on this topic

Features

Cube

DataRails

BI Standard Reporting

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 7.5 Ratings 2% below category average	DataRails - Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	6.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.9 Ratings 9% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Drill-down analysis	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.80 Ratings	00 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.4 Ratings 2% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Publish to Web	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Publish to PDF	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.6 Ratings 12% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 9.3 Ratings 6% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 9.3 Ratings 17% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Application	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 7.5 Ratings 10% below category average	DataRails - Ratings
Long-term financial planning	6.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Financial budgeting	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Forecasting	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scenario modeling	6.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management reporting	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Consolidation and Close

Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.5 Ratings 7% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Financial data consolidation	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multi-currency management	7.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Minority Ownership	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.2 Ratings 1% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management Reporting	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting	6.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings

Analytics and Reporting

Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.1 Ratings 1% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Personalized dashboards	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
KPIs	8.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis	8.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings

Integration

Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
	Cube 8.9 Ratings 6% above category average	DataRails - Ratings
Flat file integration	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Excel data integration	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Cube	DataRails
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Centage Score 9.4 out of 10	Centage Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	OneStream Score 8.8 out of 10	OneStream Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cube	DataRails
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cube	DataRails
Likelihood to Recommend	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. KH Kevin Hoopes Director of Finance Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	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. Guneet Oberoi Sr FP&A Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized CR Connor Rainey Senior Accountant Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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