Syft Analytics
Syft Analytics provides interactive financial reporting, consolidations, and forecasting for accounting data providers.
Syft AnalyticsPrice not published
Limelight Software
by LimelightMicrosoft 365Paid
Centralizes Excel data for financial planning, reporting, collaboration, and control.
PRICINGPaid
DEPLOYMENTCloud
CATEGORYAnalytics
UPDATED ON MARKETPLACE
What it does
Limelight connects Excel with Microsoft Dynamics and other data sources for financial planning and analysis. It supports expense, revenue, workforce, project, sales compensation, and sales commission planning. The add-in provides reporting functions including actual-versus-budget, P&L, variance, drill-through, and ad-hoc reports. It also captures line-item details, records changes in an audit trail, consolidates data, supports comments, and imports or exports Excel data.
Key capabilities
from the Microsoft Marketplace listingData integration
Connects with Microsoft Dynamics, G/L, CRM, and payroll systems for planning and analysis.
Audit trail
Records who made changes and when.
Automated consolidation
Consolidates data automatically.
Drill-through reporting
Shows further details and transactional information from reports.
Excel import export
Supports importing and exporting data from Excel.
Collaborative commentary
Provides comments for conversation and collaboration.
Use cases
- Finance teams can prepare revenue plans using planning drivers.
- Project teams can plan accounting and resource capacity.
How it compares
Limelight is a paid, cloud-deployed listing, while Syft Analytics has unknown pricing and cloud deployment. Limelight is dated Dec 2025, while CONTROL is dated Dec 2025 and Xero Planning & Reporting by Acterys is dated Apr 2025. DataDear and Acterys Matrix Planning For Power BI Gen2 are also paid and cloud-deployed, with both dated Jul 2026.
| Name | Pricing | Deployment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| this plugin | Paid | Cloud | |
| Syft Analytics | Price not published | Cloud | |
| CONTROL | Not in catalog | ||
| Xero Planning & Reporting by Acterys | Paid | Cloud | |
| DataDear | Paid | Cloud | |
| Acterys Matrix Planning For Power BI Gen2 | Paid | Cloud | |
In the catalog
446 plugins in Excel · Analytics
Price distribution: 8 free, 17 freemium, 142 paid, 279 price not published
Pricing & deployment
Platform
Microsoft 365
Product
Excel
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Paid
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What the vendor says
«Limelight is the next-generation of Excel offering data integration, collaboration and control. Limelight seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics and other sources to centralize all data points for financial planning & analysis. As a modern and unified platform, Limelight ensures high user adoption, quick …»