LumenSoft Xcel BI+ is the ultimate product for developing and deploying Excel-based applications to the enterprise. Built on our innovative SpreadsheetObjects technology framework that combines the power and flexibility of Excel with the ease of centralized distribution and updates, Xcel BI+ is used by organizations worldwide to deliver a variety of applications including planning, budgeting, financial reporting, dashboards, automated production reporting and more.

No longer do you have to choose between web applications and Excel spreadsheets. Xcel BI+ bridges the technology gap and satisfies all of your organization’s analytic needs.


Xcel BI+ is an Excel-based analytic solution that lets you build reporting, budgeting, and forecasting applications in a matter of days, not weeks or months. Xcel BI+ gives you the ability to combine data from virtually any data source, OLAP and relational, to create sophisticated analytic applications without programming! To top it off, Xcel BI+ end-users work in your existing Microsoft Excel environment with little or no added training.

• Build interactive, sophisticated Excel applications with no code
• Web deploy Excel models, ensuring version control and easy access
• Easily combine Excel, OLAP and relational data
• Batch create, schedule and distribute reports
• Leverage existing security model
• Access all Excel functionality and formatting
• And much more!

End users work in the familiar Excel environment, quickly and easily accessing the information they need to make informed business decisions or to collaborate with other users. The Excel interface minimizes training and guarantees user acceptance.

• Users work in familiar Microsoft Excel Environment
• Interactive spreadsheets with intuitive controls and navigation
• Structured analysis guides users through analytic activities
• Ability to work offline
• End users easily collaborate activity

Xcel BI+ turns any Excel power-user into an application developer. The Xcel BI+ Designer Console is tightly integrated with Excel, reducing training time and ensuring user acceptance. Your existing spreadsheet models can be converted to Xcel BI+ quickly and easily through the intuitive Designer interface.

• Intuitive interface to create dynamic Excel models with no code
• Delivery of data in familiar Microsoft Excel format
• Extensive formatting and formula capabilities for reports and applications
• Centrally managed environment for version control and distribution
• Designer-controlled access to database updates and calculations
• Collaboration capabilities and features such as Stop-Lighting and Cell-Notes

With Xcel BI+, you can quickly develop and implement highly intuitive, Excel-based planning and budgeting applications.

Xcel BI+ Planning and Budgeting includes prebuilt solutions for revenue, expense, labor and capital planning that contain best practice functionality to dramatically reduce implementation time. These time saving solutions, combined with the flexibility of Xcel BI+, allow the development and rollout process to be measured in weeks, not months, with application functionality that will meet and exceed your business requirements and user expectations.

Xcel BI+ Planning and Budgeting features:

• Flexible spreading functionality
• Users can add comments and supporting detail and report on comments
• Process control and input status reporting
• Immediate consolidations with targeted calculations
• Data validation and input controls
• Integrated reporting and planning minimizes the number of screens for end users
• Drill to transactional detail

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     Expense Planning
     Labor Planning
     Capital Planning


Xcel BI+ provides extensive relational database integration into the familiar Excel environment. This allows executives and business analysts to easily work with critical corporate data stored in relational databases. Xcel BI+ eliminates the need for SQL expertise and knowledge of database implementation details which has traditionally necessitated the assistance of IT to generate customized reports.

LumenSoft’s high performance relational integration server provides the following capabilities:

• Compatibility with virtually all relational databases including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Access, and all other ODBC compliant databases
• Read and write capabilities
• Secure access
• Highly-guided, easy to use interface integrated into Excel minimizes user training
• Designed for business users - sophisticated reporting can be implemented without a knowledge of SQL
• Flexible formatting and layout through the power of Excel