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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cube

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACube 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

    Workday Adaptive Planning

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Workday Adaptive Planning streamlines planning workflows, using AI and real-time data integration to improve collaboration and provide predictive forecasts for better strategic analysis.N/A
    Pricing
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    Contact us
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Considered Both Products
    Cube Planning, Inc
    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
    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
    Chose Cube
    We needed something that was quick to implement, easy to use, and had a small learning curve. Cube has delivered.
    Incentivized
    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
    Chose Cube
    Cube Planning is more flexible and integrates more easily with Google Sheets and Excel.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cube
    Cube's ease of use, price, and functionality all beat its competitors.
    Incentivized
    Workday
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    56 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    52 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    54 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    Features
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    7.5
    21 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.96 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards6.418 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.318 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.9
    47 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Drill-down analysis9.646 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.435 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.06 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.828 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.4
    21 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Publish to Web8.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.511 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.515 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.48 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.6
    12 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.811 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.18 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.87 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    9.3
    40 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.233 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.530 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.231 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.625 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    9.3
    10 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.79 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.93 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.24 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    9.6
    187 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Long-term financial planning6.545 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
    Financial budgeting8.951 Ratings9.7184 Ratings
    Forecasting7.349 Ratings9.6179 Ratings
    Scenario modeling6.644 Ratings9.6170 Ratings
    Management reporting8.351 Ratings9.5184 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.5
    49 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    6.8
    152 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Financial data consolidation8.944 Ratings5.7115 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports9.623 Ratings5.475 Ratings
    Multi-currency management7.113 Ratings7.987 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations8.514 Ratings5.368 Ratings
    Minority Ownership7.09 Ratings5.240 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting10.020 Ratings9.8102 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails8.232 Ratings8.7127 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.2
    54 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    9.0
    175 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Financial Statement Reporting8.745 Ratings9.7154 Ratings
    Management Reporting7.948 Ratings9.6170 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting9.249 Ratings9.4169 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting6.538 Ratings9.6146 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing8.95 Ratings6.928 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.1
    37 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.9
    144 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Personalized dashboards8.030 Ratings8.5126 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards7.515 Ratings9.3105 Ratings
    KPIs8.128 Ratings9.5117 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis8.228 Ratings8.8119 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting7.722 Ratings8.9101 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data9.211 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Cube and Workday Adaptive Planning
    Feature
    Cube
    8.9
    46 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Workday Adaptive Planning
    8.8
    165 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Flat file integration9.035 Ratings9.0129 Ratings
    Excel data integration9.538 Ratings8.8158 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.338 Ratings8.7120 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score10 out of 10
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (58 ratings)
    9.0
    (216 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (122 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (27 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (17 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cube Planning, Inc
    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.
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    Workday
    We're a mid-size organization working with a shoestring budget and an IT skeleton crew...not much room to dedicate resources to a platform like this fully. Having it SaaS based is helpful for system management through their Helpdesk system, and a single platform also helps streamline the knowledge needed by our developers when integrating other business aspects to Workday.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cube Planning, Inc
    • 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.
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    Workday
    • It helps create dynamic plans for finances, operations and various functional units in an organization all under one platform
    • It helps in scenario modeling to help analyze various business events and report by any number of business dimensions including channel, customer or product
    • It can be integrated with any system including ERP, BI or CRM
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cube Planning, Inc
    • 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.
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    Workday
    • Dashboards are not the best for graphs/charts. However, I have heard of companies using the dashboards for forecasting/budgeting. I would like to see Workday Adaptive Planning demonstrate this part of the feature.
    • Better security or locks to prevent deleting Actuals data - you are literally one click away from doing this.
    • On the web-based reports, better functionality when needing to reverse the sign in calculations - right now it is only available for revenue vs. expenses.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    For one we're in way too deep to not move forward with Adaptive. We're integrated with Workday, we do a ton of reporting with Adaptive, and it's working very well for planning and forecasting. No reason to look back or change course.
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    Usability
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    It is overwhelming at first, but once you really get to know it, you realize it is fairly simple and customizable, and then it has a lot more limitations than you first thought. Realizing those limitations and finding workarounds is when you know you've mastered the software.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    There haven't been any lately. The only one issue I can think of is when there was an update in Adaptive that altered our reports. Before I realized there was an issue, Adaptive reached out to let me know, so that it could be fixed.
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    Performance
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    All aspects of Adaptive Insights perform well. One area that I wish was quicker was integration. When importing data from Intacct our accounting ERP platform, it can sometimes take 4 hours for the import to process. The earlier imports are done, the quicker they complete. My estimate for a quick upload is about two hours.
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    Support Rating
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Whenever we have had any questions, issues, or concerns, the support has been quick and thorough. [This] allow[s] us to be able to fully resolve any issues, or be connected with the right group quickly to attain the result we were after; be it from simple formatting to adding new detailed reporting.
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    In-Person Training
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    This was extremely helpful so that they could walk you through the model and teach you more about the complexity of various areas. It is most helpful when it is specific to your organization's model. The larger in-person trainings were helpful but they tended to be more generic and entry level. The trainings that are more tailored to your specific needs are the most helpful.
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    Online Training
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    They often times tended to be way too generic or entry level. They would also become sales pitches to upgrade or get new Adaptive Planning products. The questions in the training would be very niche and specific to other organizations. They were rarely helpful to the group at large.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Trust the expertise of very strong 3rd party implementers. Having deployed Adaptive at a separate company before, I thought I knew it all (hubris, I know). Fortunately, I began to (very quickly) trust the judgment of our Carlson implementation team, and they provided invaluable insights and best-in-class processes that have benefitted me and my team greatly.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cube Planning, Inc
    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
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    Workday
    Workday became our choice because it is fully web-based and easily integrates with other systems. The learning curve for Workday was shorter than that of Dynamics. The reporting tools in Workday are more user-friendly than that of Dynamics. However Workday did not have Check Printing tools which are available in Dynamics. The organization started a project to digitize all financial transactions so it was not a priority feature. When it comes to scaling up the functionalities of Workday it was much easier than Dynamics.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Good read only seat access
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    Scalability
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    We went from 2 users to 70+ users over a 2 year period of time. The application scaled wonderfully. 65 of those users were non-finance users so they were able to quickly learn the software and prepare budgets quickly and efficiently. That is the power of Adaptive and its ability to scale
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    Professional Services
    Cube Planning, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cube Planning, Inc
    • 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
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    Workday
    • It's facilitated a better financial literacy and management by the non-financial managers in the company, giving them a much better ability to see what they're spending, control it, and plan better in the future.
    • It's hard to quantify the ease of model and version management, but we could never do what we're doing now with our current staff. It would take a small army to replicate anything close to what Adaptive pulls off using Excel, if it's even possible.
    Incentivized
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