XCubes overview

XCubes is a multidimensional-spreadsheet system. Where a conventional spreadsheet is a blank grid of arbitrary cells, XCubes organizes data into cubes whose rows and columns are defined by reusable dimensions. Results are presented on dashboards built from interactive widgets.

Cubes vs. spreadsheets

A spreadsheet gives you complete freedom — any cell can hold any value or formula. That freedom becomes a liability in large models: rows drift, column references break, and two analysts build two incompatible versions of the same number.

XCubes trades that freedom for structure. A cube's axes are named dimensions (Accounts, Geography, Month), and every cell sits at a well-defined coordinate. Add a new country and it appears consistently in every cube that uses the Geography dimension. Rename an account and the change propagates everywhere it is referenced.

Who it is for

XCubes is designed for financial planning, management reporting, and any recurring business model where the same structure repeats across time or entities — P&L by region, headcount by department and month, product margins by SKU. It is not a general-purpose spreadsheet; it is purpose-built for structured, versioned, multidimensional data.

How it fits together

Everything lives inside a project. A project contains dimensions (the reusable lists of items), cubes (the actual data grids), and dashboards (the visual presentations). To start building, see Projects, then Dimensions, then Cubes & coordinates.