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Cube vs. Solver

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Solver
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Solver is a cloud-based extended financial planning and analysis solution (xFP&A) that increases access to actionable insights beyond the finance department to accelerate intelligent decisions.N/A
Pricing
CubeSolver
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CubeSolver
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CubeSolver
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Andrew DeVito, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
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.
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, …
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 …
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.
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.
Nicholas Jacoby | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
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 …
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
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Cube
I was not a part of the search process but I really like using Cube.
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Cube
Cube Planning is more flexible and integrates more easily with Google Sheets and Excel.
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.
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.
Solver
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Solver
Since more employees other than accounting employees will be using BI360, it is more user friendly than other report builders.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Solver
Flexibility in the creation of dashboard and more robust.
Features
CubeSolver
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cube
7.5
Ratings
2% below category average
Solver
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cube
8.9
Ratings
9% above category average
Solver
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.80 Ratings00 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
Solver
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.40 Ratings00 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
Solver
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.80 Ratings00 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
Solver
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Cube
9.3
Ratings
16% above category average
Solver
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.20 Ratings00 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
Solver
-
Ratings
Long-term financial planning6.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial budgeting8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Forecasting7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Scenario modeling6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Management reporting8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Cube
8.5
Ratings
7% above category average
Solver
-
Ratings
Financial data consolidation8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Journal entries and reports9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails8.20 Ratings00 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
Solver
-
Ratings
Financial Statement Reporting8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Reporting7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting6.50 Ratings00 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cube
8.1
Ratings
1% above category average
Solver
-
Ratings
Personalized dashboards8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
KPIs8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Cube
8.9
Ratings
6% above category average
Solver
-
Ratings
Flat file integration9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Excel data integration9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Centage
Centage
Score 9.4 out of 10
Cube
Cube
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
OneStream
OneStream
Score 8.8 out of 10
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OneStream
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
CubeSolver
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
CubeSolver
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
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BI360 is well suited if you are trying to build reports for user access outside of the finance department. I believe BI360 would not be as useful to a company is smaller and does not have a myriad of departments.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
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  • Budgeting is one of the Best features they have in BI360.
  • Excel-based reporting gives all Excel-lovers more confident.
  • Data Warehouse holds data from different systems, so cross-platform reporting made easy.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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 | TrustRadius Reviewer
Guneet Oberoi
Sr FP&A Analyst
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  • Real-time data for reporting is not available when you get it from the warehouse.
  • Not compatible with Google Chrome.
  • Lack of version and source control for reports on the Web portal.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.
CR
Connor Rainey
Senior Accountant
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Flexibility in the creation of dashboard and more robust.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • BI360 has made getting information to management much easier.
  • BI360 makes compiling information to make reports much easier.
  • Since BI360 is capable of so many reports, our company uses it for more than financial purposes.
Verified User
Anonymous
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