---
title: "Administration"
description: "The Administration area of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform acts as a central hub for user management and the administration of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform."
source_url: https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration
language: en
last_updated: 2023-08-16
---
## Administration

The **Administration** area of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform acts as a central hub for user management and the administration of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform.

- In the **[User Management](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration/user-management.md)** section, you can create users and user roles, and assign these to higher-level permissions. It is ensured that administrators of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform have the necessary tools to create and update user accounts in a few steps within minimum time.
- The **[Platform Management](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration/platform-management.md)** area provides:
 - An overview of the solutions you have purchased and their associated [license](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration/platform-management/licenses.md) packages, as well as the number of users who have access to each [solution](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/glossary.md#solution)
 - Access to the configuration of [external authentication](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration/platform-management/configure-ext-authentication.md)
 - [Certificates](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration/platform-management/certificates.md) that are used to install SEA in Lucanet.Software Manager and to configure SEA applications in Consolidation & Financial Planning solution of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform
 - [Customizations](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/administration/platform-management/customization.md) that allow the administrator to adapt certain elements of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform to your corporate design

Administrative notifications are managed through the [Notifications](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/global-functions/notifications.md) section, where you can view system updates, user management events, and other administrative activities.

User interface of the administration on the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform

[Request demo](https://www.lucanet.com/en/request-demo/)

## Functional Areas in the Administration Section

{% tiles %}
{% tile image="_images/en/dummy.png" href="./user-management" %}
User Management
{% /tile %}
{% tile image="_images/en/journal-dashb-lnwebc-db-anzeigen-konfi.jpg" href="./platform-management" %}
Managing the CFO Solution Platform
{% /tile %}
{% /tiles %}