Cube Launches Cube Cloud for the Microsoft Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 2025 — Cube has announced expanded integrations with Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel to support enterprise data and analytics teams, leveraging the breadth and flexibility of the Microsoft analytics suite.

“Enterprises are rapidly adopting cloud data platforms like Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks,” said Artyom Keydunov, CEO and Co-Founder of Cube. “However, the shift to the cloud has left many organizations without a modern OLAP solution for multidimensional analysis that can integrate with a broad ecosystem of data consumption tools. Today, we are excited to announce our native integrations with Excel and Power BI. With our new DAX API, enterprises can query data live, without extracts, in cloud data warehouses, such as Snowflake and Databricks, directly from Power BI.”

Cube is introducing two critical enhancements to its Microsoft ecosystem integrations:

• Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) API for Power BI: This new integration enables users to connect natively from Power BI to Cube and query Cube data models in real-time using the DAX API. This architecture enables direct access to live data in cloud data warehouses, such as Databricks and Snowflake, from Power BI, while retaining all the power and expressiveness of the DAX query language.
• Cube Cloud for Excel Add-in: The Cube Cloud for Excel Add-in connects to governed data with Excel desktop or Excel online. Users can slice, dice, and pivot using a custom interface and update their analyses from the data source in one click. Instead of relying on manual data exports or snapshots to perform multidimensional analysis, leading to outdated insights, inefficiencies, and a lack of governance, Cube’s MDX API and Excel Add-in restore and modernize these capabilities by enabling direct, live connections to governed cloud datasets.

Talk to the Cube team today about how to leverage the new Power BI and Excel enhancements.

About Cube

Cube brings consistency, context, and trust to the next generation of data experiences. Cube Cloud is a leading, AI-powered universal semantic layer platform, helping companies of any size manage and deliver trusted data with a single source of truth. Any data source can be unified, governed, optimized, and integrated with any data application: AI, BI, spreadsheets, and embedded analytics. Cube is installed on 90,000 servers and used by over 5 million users. Customers include 20% of the Fortune 1000. Based in San Francisco, Cube is backed by Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Betaworks.

Source: Cube