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title: "Excel-Integration"
description: "Lucanet provides complete Excel integration for planning and reporting purposes. The Lucanet CFP Add-in for Excel 365 enables interactive access from MS Excel to the Lucanet.Financial OLAP Server for data query and editing, and Lucanet.Excel-Reporting enables the creation of standard reports in MS Excel."
source_url: https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/excel-integration
language: en
last_updated: 2026-05-01
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# Lucanet Excel Integration

Lucanet provides the complete Excel integration for planning and reporting purposes.

**Lucanet CFP Add-in for Excel 365** enables interactive access from MS Excel to Lucanet.Financial OLAP Server that can be used for data query and data editing from MS Excel.

**Lucanet.Excel-Reporting** enables the creation of standard reports in MS Excel.

You can choose to use **Lucanet CFP Add-in for Excel 365** or **Lucanet.Excel-Reporting** depending on how you want to use MS Excel together with the Lucanet software.

## Comparison

**Area of operations**

| CFP Add-in for Excel 365 | Lucanet.Excel-Reporting |
|---|---|
| Interactive analysis and editing of data | Creating standard reports |

**Advantages**

| CFP Add-in for Excel 365 | Lucanet.Excel-Reporting |
|---|---|
| • The latest values are always available.<br/>• Data on Lucanet.Financial OLAP Server can be queried from within MS Excel.<br/>• Data on Lucanet.Financial OLAP Server can be edited from within MS Excel. | • No internet access or Lucanet account is required to read the reports.<br/>• Lucanet CFP Add-in for Excel 365 does not need to be installed.<br/>• An unlimited number of formulas is possible. |

**Disadvantages**

| CFP Add-in for Excel 365 | Lucanet.Excel-Reporting |
|---|---|
| • Internet access and access to the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform are required.<br/>• Lucanet CFP Add-in for Excel 365 must be installed.<br/>• A Lucanet account is required.<br/>• A Lucanet user is required. | • The reports contain the values at the time the report was generated. That means the reports may not necessarily contain the most up-to-date values.<br/>• The system only queries values, which cannot be edited. |

**Should be used if...**

| CFP Add-in for Excel 365 | Lucanet.Excel-Reporting |
|---|---|
| The interactive data analysis is necessary, because the latest values should always be available and/or data needs to be edited on Lucanet.Financial OLAP Server from MS Excel. | Standard reports are to be used that are distributed as required and are displayed independently of Lucanet and/or Internet access. |

- [CFP Add-in for Excel 365](https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/excel-integration/cfp-add-in.md)
- [Lucanet.Excel-Reporting](https://support.lucanet.com/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/excel-integration/lucanet-excel-reporting.md)