Tbx Business Suite

The Tbx Business Suite is an integrated controlling, reporting, planning and data-integration platform developed by Tbx Software GmbH, headquartered in Spremberg in Brandenburg. Unlike a classical ERP, the Tbx Business Suite does not handle daily transactional workflows; instead, it sits as a controlling and corporate-performance-management layer above the operational systems, providing OLAP-based multi-dimensional analysis, planning workflows and reporting. The product is positioned for DACH Mid-Market finance teams that need more depth than the reporting capabilities of their ERP can provide and want a structured CPM platform without the complexity and cost of upper-Mid-Market alternatives such as LucaNet, Jedox or prevero. The OLAP heritage gives the platform a fundamentally different data-modelling approach versus relational BI tools.

Functional scope

The Tbx Business Suite covers multi-dimensional OLAP modelling for financial and operational data, structured planning and budgeting workflows with versioning, rolling forecasts, cost-centre and cost-unit accounting, profitability analysis by product, customer or business unit, group consolidation with multi-currency translation and intercompany eliminations, and operational reporting with drill-down to the underlying data. The data-integration module pulls source data from common DACH ERP systems — SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, DATEV — into the OLAP cubes, with refresh schedules configurable per source. The depth of multi-dimensional modelling is appropriate for Mid-Market controlling teams rather than for large-enterprise corporate-performance-management.

Target segment

The natural Tbx customer is a German Mid-Market organisation between roughly 100 and 2,000 employees with a structured controlling function that has outgrown the reporting capabilities of its ERP. Typical industries include discrete manufacturing, technical wholesale, professional services and regulated industries with structured planning cycles. The product is less well aligned with very small organisations that handle controlling informally through spreadsheets, and with large enterprise groups that need the breadth of LucaNet, Jedox or SAP Group Reporting. Within the DACH Mid-Market CPM market, the competitive set typically includes LucaNet, Corporate Planning, BPS-ONE and Jedox alongside the Tbx Business Suite.

Architecture and deployment

The Tbx Business Suite is delivered both as an on-premises product and as a hosted managed service through Tbx Software. The architecture is built around an OLAP-based multi-dimensional data store, which provides materially different query performance and modelling flexibility compared with relational BI tools at the cost of a different implementation and maintenance pattern. The user experience combines an Excel-based front-end — familiar to controllers and finance teams — with a web client for broader reporting consumption. Integration with the major DACH ERP and DATEV systems is mature, and the platform supports the standard data-warehouse patterns used in Mid-Market controlling environments.

Pricing and TCO

The Tbx Business Suite is sold under perpetual or rental licensing with annual maintenance, plus implementation services charged on a project basis. The vendor does not publish a public per-user price list. As a directional benchmark for a 20-user controlling deployment in a Mid-Market discrete-manufacturing business, software licences typically land between 30,000 and 80,000 euro, implementation services between 50,000 and 150,000 euro, and five-year total cost of ownership between 120,000 and 300,000 euro depending on the depth of OLAP modelling and the number of source-system integrations. This places Tbx in the mid price segment of the DACH Mid-Market CPM market, below LucaNet and Jedox for comparable scope.

Selection considerations

The Tbx Business Suite is a credible choice for German Mid-Market controlling teams that want a structured CPM platform with OLAP-based multi-dimensional modelling, mature Excel-based controller workflows and a more transparent total cost of ownership than the larger DACH CPM vendors. The Excel-based front-end is a particular strength for controlling teams that work primarily in Excel and want to keep that environment rather than learning a new dedicated UI. The trade-offs are the smaller vendor profile and partner network compared with LucaNet, and the on-premises-first delivery model compared with the cloud-native trajectory of Jedox or Anaplan. For Mid-Market controlling teams that fit the profile, Tbx is one option among several in the DACH CPM long-list.

Related Topics

• Syft Analytics
• Business intelligence
• ERP for Mid-Market

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