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BI SURVEY 14

The world´s largest survey of business intelligence software users

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cubus in The BI Survey 14

Table of contents

THE BI Survey 14 cubus results overview ......................................................................................... 3

cubus in THE BI Survey 14 ................................................................................................................ 4

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 4

cubus overview ............................................................................................................................... 4

cubus customer responses ............................................................................................................. 4

User and use case demographics .................................................................................................. 5

Peer Groups ....................................................................................................................................... 7

The KPIs ............................................................................................................................................. 7

Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 22


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


cubus in THE BI Survey 14

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.


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


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)


70%

30%

Power user

Casual user


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.


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


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)




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


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


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)


Cubeware (14)

Pentaho (15)

Infor (16)

IBM Cognos BI (17)

SAP BW (18)




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)


Cubeware (11)

Infor (12)



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


Bissantz (2)

Evidanza (3)

SAP BW (4)

Pentaho (5)

cubus (6)

Infor (7)

Average

BOARD (8)

Cubeware (9)


Jedox (11)

prevero (11)

TARGIT (13)

Microsoft SSAS (14)

MicroStrategy (15)

IBM Cognos BI (16)

IBM Cognos TM1 (17)

Oracle Essbase (18)




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


Evidanza (2)

TARGIT (3)

IBM Cognos TM1 (4)

cubus (5)


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)



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)





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


TARGIT (2)

Bissantz (3)

Microsoft SSAS (4)

cubus (5)

BOARD (6)

Pentaho (7)


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)



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)





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


SAP BW (9)

IBM Cognos BI (10)

TARGIT (11)

Microsoft SSAS (12)

IBM Cognos TM1 (13)

MicroStrategy (14)

BOARD (15)

Pentaho (16)


Oracle Essbase (18)



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


Oracle Essbase (2)

IBM Cognos TM1 (3)

cubus (4)

Jedox (5)

Bissantz (6)

BOARD (7)

Evidanza (8)

MicroStrategy (9)

Infor (10)

Microsoft SSAS (11)


Average

Cubeware (13)

TARGIT (14)

prevero (15)

IBM Cognos BI (16)

Pentaho (17)

SAP BW (18)




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)


Cubeware (11)

prevero (12)



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)


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)


SAP BW (18)




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)


Jedox (7)

Average

Infor (8)

Cubeware (9)

Evidanza (10)

IBM Cognos TM1 (11)

Oracle Essbase (12)



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)


Cubeware (10)

Average

Microsoft SSAS (11)

Oracle Essbase (12)

Infor (13)

SAP BW (14)

MicroStrategy (15)


IBM Cognos BI (17)

Pentaho (18)




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)


arcplan (6)

Average

IBM Cognos TM1 (7)

Jedox (8)

Evidanza (9)

Cubeware (10)

Oracle Essbase (11)

Infor (12)



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


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)


IBM Cognos BI (17)

SAP BW (18)




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)


Cubeware (12)



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)


cubus (4)


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)




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)


Bissantz (4)

Infor (5)

Average

Oracle Essbase (6)

BOARD (7)

Evidanza (8)

Cubeware (9)

IBM Cognos TM1 (10)

arcplan (11)

prevero (12)



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


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)


prevero (15)

Pentaho (16)

Oracle Essbase (17)

SAP BW (18)




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)



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)



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



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)


MicroStrategy (4)


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)



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)




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)



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)


IBM Cognos TM1 (9)

Cubeware (10)

Infor (11)

Evidanza (12)




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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