BI SURVEY 14
The world´s largest survey of business intelligence software users
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CUBUS
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Table of contents
THE BI Survey 14 cubus results overview ......................................................................................... 3
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Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4
cubus overview ............................................................................................................................... 4
cubus customer responses ............................................................................................................. 4
User and use case demographics .................................................................................................. 5
Peer Groups ....................................................................................................................................... 7
The KPIs ............................................................................................................................................. 7
Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 22
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THE BI Survey 14 cubus results overview
OLAP analysis vendor
Top ranked Leading
Competitive win rate
Vendor support
Business benefits
Recommendation
Cloud BI
Collaboration
Data discovery/visualization
Visual design standards
Performance satisfaction
Implementer support
Customer satisfaction
Project length
Self-service
Flexibility for the user
Agility
Ease of use
Planning vendor
Top ranked Leading
Competitive win rate
Recommendation
Vendor support
Collaboration
Data discovery/visualization
Performance satisfaction
Implementer support
Customer satisfaction
Project length
Self-service
Agility
Ease of use
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Introduction
The BI Survey 14 is based on findings from the world's largest and most comprehensive survey of
business intelligence end-users, conducted earlier this year. In total, 3,224 people responded to The
Survey with 2,348 answering a series of detailed questions about their usage of a named product.
Altogether, 34 products (or groups of products) are analyzed in detail.
The BI Survey 14 examines BI product selection and usage among users in areas including business
benefits, costs, proportion of employees using the product, competitiveness, recommendation,
innovation, performance, customer satisfaction and agility.
We asked several questions that helped us measure the business benefits derived from respondents’
deployments. The combined results were then used as a calibration tool – The Business Benefits
Index (BBI) - which is widely used throughout The Survey to assess the correlation between various
factors and the achievement of benefits.
cubus overview
Founded in 1992 and based near Stuttgart, Germany, cubus AG currently has approximately
30 employees including five developers and eight consultants. According to its own accounts, the
company has implemented over 200 successful projects.
Having started out as a consulting and implementation services provider, cubus began to offer its own
software solutions that are extended with third-party solutions (from Oracle in particular) in 1998. Its
ABC (planning), BSC (balanced scorecard) and SPPM (project portfolio management) solutions,
which were initially sold as independent modules, were combined into the cubus outperform solution
with version 6.5 in 2010. outperform is currently used by approximately 90 customers. In a typical
deployment, 30-80 users work with the products but there are also a few sites with over a
hundred users.
Until 2012, cubus also offered IBM Cognos Executive Viewer to support dynamic OLAP analyses on
the Web. At the end of 2012, IBM sold the source code to cubus. Executive Viewer, which had been
sold as an OEM version since 1998, now goes by the name cubus outperform EV Analytics
(cubus EV).
cubus customer responses
This is the first year cubus has appeared in The BI Survey. Of the 37 respondents using the product,
the vast majority – 80 percent – are running version 7. A further 3 percent have version 9, 10 percent
are on version 10, while 7 percent are still using version 6.
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User and use case demographics
Product usage (n= 37)
Company size (number of employees) (n=37)
Percentage of employees
using cubus
cubus 11%
Average of all products
15%
Number of users using cubus
Median 60
Mean 238
84%
84%
78%
76%
68%
38%
35%
30%
14%
11%
8%
11%
8%
8%
14%
22%
22%
32%
27%
24%
16%
16%
Ad hoc query
OLAP analysis
Standard/Enterprise reporting
Budgeting/Planning
Operational analytics
Visual analysis/Data discovery
Dashboards
Financial consolidation
Scorecards
Predictive analytics/Data mining
Big data analytics
In use Planned
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8%
62%
30%
Less than 100 100 - 2500 More than2500
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Type of license model used (n=33)
Proportion of casual and power users (n=37)
Budgeting and planning is a major focus of cubus and is a use case for 76 percent of its users.
EV Analytics (the former Temtec and IBM Executive Viewer product) is fully integrated into the
solution and offers ad hoc query and OLAP analysis functionality, used by 84 percent of respondents.
78 percent of users also say they use cubus for enterprise reporting. cubus is not really geared to print
reporting and customers usually use separate tools for this in our experience. However, enterprise
reports can be distributed digitally on screen.
Most cubus customers are mid-sized organizations in German-speaking countries although its
acquisition of the Executive Viewer source code may have had the effect of reeling in some larger
customers from other territories.
94 percent of customers say they purchased licenses up-front. This figure may decrease next year as
the vendor has recently launched a cloud subscription model.
94%
6%
0%
0%
0%
Purchased licensesup-front
Part of a bundle
Open source
Yearly software fee(on-premise)
Yearly software fee(cloud solution)
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70%
30%
Power user
Casual user
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Peer Groups
The BI Survey features a range of different types of BI tools so we use peer groups to ensure similar
products are compared against each other. The groups are essential to allow fair and useful
comparisons of products that are likely to compete.
The peer groups are primarily data-driven and based on how customers say they use the product.
cubus features in the following peer groups:
- OLAP analysis
- Planning
The KPIs
The BI Survey 14 provides the reader with well-designed KPI dashboards packed with concise
information, which can be absorbed at a glance. The KPIs all follow these simple rules:
- Only measures that have a clear good/bad trend are used as the basis for KPIs
- KPIs may be based on one or more measures from The BI Survey
- Only products with samples of at least 20 - 30 (depending on the KPI) for each of the
questions that feeds into the KPI are included
- Each KPI is normalized so that the overall sample always has a value of 1.0
- The KPIs are calculated so that better-than-average products always have scores of
greater than 1.0, while less good products score less than 1.0. When viewing the peer
group KPI charts, note that the average for each peer group will usually be either higher or
lower than 1.0 because the peer groups are all subsets of the overall sample.
The products are sorted by value: the better the product the higher the value. The average is
displayed as a green bar and separates the products into two groups, those that performed better than
average and those that performed worse than aver-age.
For more details on the KPIs, see our ‘KPIs and Dashboards’ document.
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Leading OLAP analysis vendor in business benefits
Based on the achievement level of a variety of business benefits
cubus is rated above average by its users in the ‘business benefits’ KPI. The vendor demonstrates a
solid understanding of its customers’ business requirements and cubus consultants are well known in
the market for their strong business expertise.
Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in competitive win rate
Based on the percentage of wins in competitive evaluations
1,10
1,10
1,08
1,08
1,06
1,06
1,05
1,03
1,01
1,00
1,00
0,99
0,97
0,96
0,96
0,96
0,92
0,79
0,77
BOARD (1)
Oracle Essbase (2)
TARGIT (3)
Microsoft SSAS (4)
Jedox (5)
cubus (6)
Bissantz (7)
Infor (8)
Evidanza (9)
MicroStrategy (10)
prevero (11)
Average
Pyramid Analytics (12)
Pentaho (13)
Cubeware (14)
IBM Cognos TM1 (15)
MS Excel & Power products (16)
SAP BW (17)
IBM Cognos BI (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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1,53 1,31
1,28 1,27
1,23 1,21
1,15 1,11
0,99 0,99
0,94 0,85
0,80 0,79 0,78
0,76 0,71 0,70
0,45
cubus (1)Pyramid Analytics (2)
Microsoft SSAS (3)prevero (4)
MS Excel & Power products (5)Bissantz (6)TARGIT (7)SAP BW (8)
AverageInfor (9)
Oracle Essbase (10)MicroStrategy (11)
IBM Cognos TM1 (12)Evidanza (13)
BOARD (14)IBM Cognos BI (15)
Jedox (16)Cubeware (17)
Pentaho (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Top ranked planning vendor in competitive win rate
Based on the percentage of wins in competitive evaluations
cubus comfortably beats local rivals such as prevero, Evidanza, arcplan, BOARD and Cubeware in
this important KPI.
In BARC’s experience, cubus is persuasive in proof of concept scenarios and this is reflected in a very
strong competitive win rate. Its flexible product can be shown to meet the challenges of most
customers in a variety of different ways, and its experienced team of pre-sales consultants is clearly
doing an excellent job.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in recommendation
Based on how many users would recommend the product to others
1,53
1,36
1,27
1,21
0,99
0,96
0,94
0,80
0,79
0,78
0,71
0,70
0,48
cubus (1)
arcplan (2)
prevero (3)
Bissantz (4)
Infor (5)
Average
Oracle Essbase (6)
IBM Cognos TM1 (7)
Evidanza (8)
BOARD (9)
Jedox (10)
Cubeware (11)
Corporate Planning (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,37
1,21
1,20
1,19
1,17
1,13
1,08
1,08
1,08
0,93
0,93
0,90
0,86
0,84
0,77
0,60
0,56
0,47
0,32
Pyramid Analytics (1)
Microsoft SSAS (2)
cubus (3)
Bissantz (4)
Jedox (5)
BOARD (6)
Oracle Essbase (7)
Evidanza (8)
prevero (9)
Average
IBM Cognos TM1 (10)
TARGIT (11)
MicroStrategy (12)
MS Excel & Power products (13)
Cubeware (14)
Pentaho (15)
Infor (16)
IBM Cognos BI (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Top ranked planning vendor in recommendation
Based on how many users would recommend the product to others
As a planning and OLAP analysis vendor, cubus’ recommendation rating is higher than most of its
competitors. Recommendation is a strong indicator of customer satisfaction and cubus’ good result is
reinforced in the ‘customer satisfaction’ KPI.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in cloud BI
Based on how many sites currently use the product in a cloud environment
1,20
1,19
1,17
1,13
1,08
1,08
1,08
1,03
1,01
0,93
0,88
0,77
0,56
cubus (1)
Bissantz (2)
Jedox (3)
BOARD (4)
Oracle Essbase (5)
Evidanza (6)
prevero (7)
arcplan (8)
Average
IBM Cognos TM1 (9)
Corporate Planning (10)
Cubeware (11)
Infor (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,62
1,09
1,02
1,00
0,93
0,85
0,84
0,79
0,75
0,70
0,69
0,68
0,68
0,64
0,61
0,60
0,58
0,50
0,49
MS Excel & Power products (1)
Bissantz (2)
Evidanza (3)
SAP BW (4)
Pentaho (5)
cubus (6)
Infor (7)
Average
BOARD (8)
Cubeware (9)
Pyramid Analytics (10)
Jedox (11)
prevero (11)
TARGIT (13)
Microsoft SSAS (14)
MicroStrategy (15)
IBM Cognos BI (16)
IBM Cognos TM1 (17)
Oracle Essbase (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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cubus has only recently partnered with Datagroup to launch a cloud offering in compliance with
German data security laws. The minimum contract term is one year and application and technical
support is provided by cubus.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in collaboration
Based on how many sites currently use collaboration features with their BI tool
Leading planning vendor in collaboration
Based on how many sites currently use collaboration features with their BI tool
1,76
1,74
1,63
1,52
1,46
1,22
1,10
1,09
1,08
1,06
1,01
0,95
0,82
0,80
0,74
0,63
0,62
0,58
0,30
Pyramid Analytics (1)
Evidanza (2)
TARGIT (3)
IBM Cognos TM1 (4)
cubus (5)
MS Excel & Power products (6)
Oracle Essbase (7)
prevero (8)
BOARD (9)
Average
Bissantz (10)
Microsoft SSAS (11)
Jedox (12)
MicroStrategy (13)
Infor (14)
IBM Cognos BI (15)
Cubeware (16)
SAP BW (17)
Pentaho (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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1,74
1,52
1,46
1,10
1,09
1,08
1,06
1,01
0,95
0,82
0,74
0,62
0,61
Evidanza (1)
IBM Cognos TM1 (2)
cubus (3)
Oracle Essbase (4)
prevero (5)
BOARD (6)
Average
Bissantz (7)
arcplan (8)
Jedox (9)
Infor (10)
Cubeware (11)
Corporate Planning (12)
Average planning peer group
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Collaboration is important in planning scenarios and although cubus does not have a specific
collaboration solution, it does offer good commenting features. Users can also attach files (including
PowerPoint, PDF and Excel) to planning sheets, for example, to document their planning figures.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in data discovery/visualization
Based on how many sites currently use data discovery/visualization with their BI tool
Leading planning vendor in data discovery/visualization
Based on how many sites currently use data discovery/visualization with their BI tool
Data discovery and visualization is not a major focus for cubus. However, the integration of Executive
Viewer into the solution has brought about an improvement in this area.
1,58
1,56
1,08
1,04
0,98
0,97
0,94
0,92
0,87
0,83
0,76
0,74
0,73
0,66
0,60
0,57
0,57
0,56
0,51
Pyramid Analytics (1)
TARGIT (2)
Bissantz (3)
Microsoft SSAS (4)
cubus (5)
BOARD (6)
Pentaho (7)
MS Excel & Power products (8)
Average
MicroStrategy (9)
Evidanza (10)
prevero (11)
IBM Cognos BI (12)
Jedox (13)
Oracle Essbase (14)
SAP BW (15)
Cubeware (16)
IBM Cognos TM1 (17)
Infor (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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1,08
0,98
0,97
0,95
0,76
0,74
0,73
0,66
0,60
0,57
0,56
0,51
0,43
Bissantz (1)
cubus (2)
BOARD (3)
arcplan (4)
Evidanza (5)
prevero (6)
Average
Jedox (7)
Oracle Essbase (8)
Cubeware (9)
IBM Cognos TM1 (10)
Infor (11)
Corporate Planning (12)
Average planning peer group
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Leading OLAP analysis vendor in visual design standards
Based on how many sites currently use visual design standards with their BI tool
This is an area that cubus has developed in recent years. Customers can now use cubus to create
charts that comply with Rolf Hichert’s ‘HICHERT®SUCCESS’ visual design standards.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in performance satisfaction
Measures the frequency of complaints about the system’s performance
3,35
2,31
1,98
1,78
1,74
1,34
1,24
1,24
1,15
1,00
0,97
0,83
0,80
0,79
0,75
0,66
0,65
0,60
0,38
Bissantz (1)
Evidanza (2)
Infor (3)
prevero (4)
Cubeware (5)
cubus (6)
Jedox (7)
Average
MS Excel & Power products (8)
SAP BW (9)
IBM Cognos BI (10)
TARGIT (11)
Microsoft SSAS (12)
IBM Cognos TM1 (13)
MicroStrategy (14)
BOARD (15)
Pentaho (16)
Pyramid Analytics (17)
Oracle Essbase (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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1,14
1,11
1,10
1,09
1,08
1,08
1,06
1,06
1,05
1,02
0,99
0,98
0,98
0,93
0,92
0,83
0,82
0,75
0,57
Pyramid Analytics (1)
Oracle Essbase (2)
IBM Cognos TM1 (3)
cubus (4)
Jedox (5)
Bissantz (6)
BOARD (7)
Evidanza (8)
MicroStrategy (9)
Infor (10)
Microsoft SSAS (11)
MS Excel & Power products (12)
Average
Cubeware (13)
TARGIT (14)
prevero (15)
IBM Cognos BI (16)
Pentaho (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Leading planning vendor in performance satisfaction
Measures the frequency of complaints about the system’s performance
Performance is one of the main strengths of cubus. Customers consider cubus as a leading vendor in
the ‘performance satisfaction’ KPI in the OLAP Analysis and Planning vendor peer groups, and few
have any complaints in this regard. Approximately 80 percent of cubus’ customers use the tool on top
of Oracle Essbase, an in-memory OLAP database also known for its good performance.
Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in vendor support
Measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product
1,11
1,10
1,09
1,08
1,08
1,06
1,06
1,05
1,03
1,02
0,95
0,93
0,83
Oracle Essbase (1)
IBM Cognos TM1 (2)
cubus (3)
Jedox (4)
Bissantz (5)
BOARD (6)
Evidanza (7)
arcplan (8)
Average
Infor (9)
Corporate Planning (10)
Cubeware (11)
prevero (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,45
1,43
1,42
1,36
1,23
1,17
1,04
1,03
1,02
1,02
1,01
0,96
0,92
0,79
0,76
0,65
0,64
0,64
0,57
cubus (1)
Pyramid Analytics (2)
Bissantz (3)
prevero (4)
BOARD (5)
Jedox (6)
Infor (7)
MicroStrategy (8)
Cubeware (9)
Pentaho (10)
Average
Evidanza (11)
TARGIT (12)
IBM Cognos TM1 (13)
Microsoft SSAS (14)
Oracle Essbase (15)
IBM Cognos BI (16)
MS Excel & Power products (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Top ranked planning vendor in vendor support
Measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product
Customers benefit from the product knowledge and implementation experience that cubus brings to
the table, resulting in an exceptionally strong rating in the ‘vendor support’ KPI. As a small vendor with
relatively few customers, it is well positioned to provide a high level of support, which it works hard to
maintain.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in implementer support
Measures user satisfaction with the level of the implementer’s support for the product
1,45
1,42
1,36
1,26
1,23
1,20
1,17
1,13
1,04
1,02
0,96
0,79
0,65
cubus (1)
Bissantz (2)
prevero (3)
arcplan (4)
BOARD (5)
Corporate Planning (6)
Jedox (7)
Average
Infor (8)
Cubeware (9)
Evidanza (10)
IBM Cognos TM1 (11)
Oracle Essbase (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,35
1,30
1,24
1,20
1,19
1,12
1,11
1,03
1,02
1,01
1,01
1,00
1,00
0,96
0,87
0,79
0,71
0,67
0,63
prevero (1)
TARGIT (2)
Bissantz (3)
BOARD (4)
cubus (5)
IBM Cognos TM1 (6)
Jedox (7)
Evidanza (8)
Pyramid Analytics (9)
Cubeware (10)
Average
Microsoft SSAS (11)
Oracle Essbase (12)
Infor (13)
SAP BW (14)
MicroStrategy (15)
MS Excel & Power products (16)
IBM Cognos BI (17)
Pentaho (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Leading planning vendor in implementer support
Measures user satisfaction with the level of the implementer’s support for the product
Implementer support is very highly rated by cubus customers. The vendor usually implements its own
projects in its local DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) but uses partners to service
international customers.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in customer satisfaction
Combines the ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs
1,35
1,24
1,20
1,19
1,19
1,15
1,13
1,12
1,11
1,03
1,01
1,00
0,96
prevero (1)
Bissantz (2)
BOARD (3)
cubus (4)
Corporate Planning (5)
arcplan (6)
Average
IBM Cognos TM1 (7)
Jedox (8)
Evidanza (9)
Cubeware (10)
Oracle Essbase (11)
Infor (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,64
1,60
1,31
1,31
1,20
1,19
1,16
1,14
1,12
1,10
1,08
1,03
1,02
0,99
0,93
0,77
0,65
0,65
0,62
Pyramid Analytics (1)
Bissantz (2)
prevero (3)
cubus (4)
Evidanza (5)
BOARD (6)
Jedox (7)
Infor (8)
Oracle Essbase (9)
IBM Cognos TM1 (10)
Average
Cubeware (11)
TARGIT (12)
MicroStrategy (13)
Microsoft SSAS (14)
Pentaho (15)
MS Excel & Power products (16)
IBM Cognos BI (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Leading planning vendor in customer satisfaction
Combines the ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in project length
Based on how quickly the product is implemented
1,60
1,34
1,31
1,31
1,21
1,20
1,19
1,16
1,14
1,12
1,10
1,07
1,03
Bissantz (1)
arcplan (2)
prevero (3)
cubus (4)
Average
Evidanza (5)
BOARD (6)
Jedox (7)
Infor (8)
Oracle Essbase (9)
IBM Cognos TM1 (10)
Corporate Planning (11)
Cubeware (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,41
1,39
1,30
1,22
1,22
1,06
1,02
0,96
0,94
0,87
0,77
0,71
0,67
0,56
0,55
0,53
0,52
0,43
0,42
Jedox (1)
MicroStrategy (2)
MS Excel & Power products (3)
cubus (4)
Pyramid Analytics (5)
Bissantz (6)
TARGIT (7)
IBM Cognos BI (8)
Infor (9)
Average
Oracle Essbase (10)
BOARD (11)
Evidanza (12)
Cubeware (13)
IBM Cognos TM1 (14)
Microsoft SSAS (15)
SAP BW (16)
prevero (17)
Pentaho (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Leading planning vendor in project length
Based on how quickly the product is implemented
Unlike many other providers, cubus does not promote itself as a vendor that delivers fast
implementation, but its customers still report comfortably faster than average project completions. This
is perhaps one of the reasons why cubus’ implementer support rating is also high.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in self-service
Based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool
1,41
1,22
1,09
1,06
0,94
0,83
0,77
0,71
0,67
0,56
0,55
0,52
0,43
Jedox (1)
cubus (2)
Corporate Planning (3)
Bissantz (4)
Infor (5)
Average
Oracle Essbase (6)
BOARD (7)
Evidanza (8)
Cubeware (9)
IBM Cognos TM1 (10)
arcplan (11)
prevero (12)
Average planning peer group
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1,33
1,25
1,25
1,21
1,16
1,12
1,11
1,10
1,09
1,08
1,06
1,06
1,01
0,97
0,91
0,87
0,85
0,84
0,81
Pyramid Analytics (1)
Jedox (2)
IBM Cognos BI (3)
Microsoft SSAS (4)
IBM Cognos TM1 (5)
cubus (6)
Cubeware (7)
Evidanza (8)
TARGIT (9)
Bissantz (10)
MicroStrategy (11)
Average
BOARD (12)
Infor (13)
MS Excel & Power products (14)
prevero (15)
Pentaho (16)
Oracle Essbase (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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Leading planning vendor in self-service
Based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool
Technical specialists are required to implement the product but once it’s up and running, business
users do not need programming skills or extensive training to perform self-service tasks such as data
modelling and creating reports, planning forms and analyses. Planners in business departments can
adapt easily to cubus’ Excel-like user interface and Web functionality.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in flexibility for the user
Based on how often the product was chosen for its flexibility and the frequency of complaints about
user flexibility post-implementation
1,25
1,16
1,12
1,11
1,10
1,08
1,01
1,01
0,97
0,87
0,84
0,65
Jedox (1)
IBM Cognos TM1 (2)
cubus (3)
Cubeware (4)
Evidanza (5)
Bissantz (6)
Average
BOARD (7)
Infor (8)
prevero ()
Oracle Essbase (10)
arcplan (11)
Average planning peer group
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1,70
1,34
1,29
1,25
1,24
1,21
1,16
1,04
1,03
1,02
1,02
1,02
1,01
0,89
0,84
0,81
0,71
0,70
0,56
prevero (1)
BOARD (2)
Pentaho (3)
cubus (4)
Jedox (5)
Infor (6)
Evidanza (7)
Average
Bissantz (8)
MS Excel & Power products (9)
Pyramid Analytics (10)
Oracle Essbase (11)
IBM Cognos TM1 (12)
Cubeware (13)
MicroStrategy (14)
Microsoft SSAS (15)
IBM Cognos BI (16)
TARGIT (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP
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cubus outperform provides a flexible platform for building individual, more complex business logic for
planning applications. The solution has no market or industry focus and is used by companies of
various sizes and industries. However, cubus does offer predefined models and logic for integrated
profit and financial planning (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow), revenue and sales planning, human
resource planning, cost center planning, cost allocations and investment planning. Customers can
completely adapt and extend the models and logic to meet their specific requirements.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in agility
Combines the ‘Project length’, ‘Self-service’ and 'Flexibility for users' KPIs
Leading planning vendor in agility
Combines the ‘Project length’, ‘Self-service’ and 'Flexibility for users' KPIs
1,30
1,19
1,19
1,10
1,07
1,06
1,04
1,02
1,00
0,99
0,98
0,97
0,94
0,91
0,87
0,85
0,85
0,85
0,63
Jedox (1)
cubus (2)
Pyramid Analytics (3)
MicroStrategy (4)
MS Excel & Power products (5)
Bissantz (6)
Infor (7)
BOARD (8)
prevero (9)
Average
Evidanza (10)
IBM Cognos BI (11)
TARGIT (12)
IBM Cognos TM1 (13)
Oracle Essbase (14)
Pentaho (15)
Microsoft SSAS (16)
Cubeware (17)
SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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1,30
1,19
1,06
1,04
1,02
1,00
1,00
0,98
0,91
0,87
0,85
0,82
Jedox (1)
cubus (2)
Bissantz (3)
Infor (4)
BOARD (5)
Average
prevero (6)
Evidanza (7)
IBM Cognos TM1 (8)
Oracle Essbase (9)
Cubeware (10)
arcplan (11)
Average planning peer group
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cubus is considered to be an agile BI vendor. Agility and flexibility for the user are frequent
requirements in BARC’s software selection projects. The product scores well in all three agility KPIs:
‘Project length’, ‘Self-service’ and ‘Flexibility for users’.
Leading OLAP analysis vendor in ease of use
Based on how often the product was chosen for ease of use and the level of complaints about ease of
use post-implementation
Leading planning vendor in ease of use
Based on how often the product was chosen for ease of use and the level of complaints about ease of
use post-implementation
With its Excel-like interface and Web functionality, cubus is targetted at business users who say they
find it reasonably easy to use. Programming skills are not required to use this product.
1,35 1,28
1,18 1,05 1,05
0,99 0,99 0,99 0,97
0,91 0,89
0,86 0,82
0,79 0,72 0,71
0,68 0,68
0,38
Pyramid Analytics (1)BOARD (2)
Jedox (3)cubus (4)
MS Excel & Power products (5)Oracle Essbase (6)
MicroStrategy (7)Bissantz (8)prevero (9)
AverageTARGIT (10)
IBM Cognos TM1 (11)Cubeware (12)
Infor (13)IBM Cognos BI (14)
Evidanza (15)Pentaho (16)
Microsoft SSAS (17)SAP BW (18)
Average OLAP analysis peer group
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1,28
1,19
1,18
1,05
0,99
0,99
0,98
0,97
0,94
0,86
0,82
0,79
0,71
BOARD (1)
arcplan (2)
Jedox (3)
cubus (4)
Oracle Essbase (5)
Bissantz (6)
Average
prevero (7)
Corporate Planning (8)
IBM Cognos TM1 (9)
Cubeware (10)
Infor (11)
Evidanza (12)
Average planning peer group
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Summary
cubus is a comparatively small German vendor with a strong focus on German-speaking countries.
The BI Survey 14 results confirm that it is typically used in small to medium-scale projects with
11 percent of employees using the product in customer organizations, a little lower than The BI Survey
14 average of 15 percent.
The vendor achieves an excellent set of results in its first ever appearance in The BI Survey. In terms
of competitive win rate, cubus is among the top three vendors in this year’s BI Survey, comfortably
beating local rivals such as prevero, Evidanza, arcplan, BOARD and Cubeware in this important KPI.
In BARC’s experience, cubus is persuasive in proof of concept scenarios, and its flexible product can
be shown to meet the challenges of most customers in a variety of different ways. Customers are also
happy to recommend cubus to others, a strong indicator of satisfaction with the product.
Vendor support is another major strong suit of cubus. Its consultants are well known in the German
market for their high level of business expertise. Customers benefit from the product knowledge and
implementation experience that cubus brings to the table.
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