About us
Professional, customer-focused and forward-thinking: these are the attributes that define our approach and the expertise we have developed in financial consolidation, financial planning and financial controlling. This approach has allowed us to grow quickly since our founding in 1999, and today we enjoy our position as a leading provider of Financial Performance Management solutions.
Intuitive interfaces and pioneering, innovative technology have been our central considerations while developing our comprehensive software solution for financial consolidation, planning, reporting and analysis. As a growing and international company, we have plenty of ideas for the future. We want to revolutionise the business app market – but that’s just for starters...
Beyond a Financial Performance Management software for accounting, we also provide comprehensive training and expert consulting to ensure you get the most out of our tools. Our interdisciplinary approach ensures we are always up to date on the latest regulatory requirements and in the best position to liaise with auditors on your behalf.
Learn more about us and our history in the video below.
How it all began
LucaNet’s story starts back in 1999, when the two founders of LucaNet AG, Rolf-Jürgen Moll and Oliver Schmitz, who remain directors of the company to this day, decided to found an accounting consultancy firm. Their daily interactions with customers made one thing very clear:
The systems available on the market at that time did not come close to meeting the requirements of controlling and financial consolidation departments at small to medium-sized companies. Existing software solutions were inflexible and cumbersome, meaning they were not sufficiently cost or time-effective to make using them worthwhile. This is what sparked the visionary idea of a software solution for planning, controlling and financial consolidation. Responding to the gap in the market, LucaNet paid close attention to ensuring maximum ease of use, by even inexperienced IT users. With its state-of-the-art technology and excellent usability, the visionary LucaNet software was soon an incredible success. The developers’ efforts were rewarded in the form of a continuously growing customer base, increasing sales, a plethora of industry awards, international expansion, and high demand for an ever-expanding product portfolio. In just a short time, LucaNet grew from a small software company to become one of the industry’s leading players. And in the process, LucaNet completely revolutionised the way companies approach Financial Performance Management.
Where does the name come from?
The name LucaNet originates from one of the greatest mathematicians of the Renaissance: Luca Pacioli.
In 1494, this Italian Franciscan monk wrote the world’s first paper on the concept of double-entry accounting: Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalità.
Recognised as the greatest mathematical work of its time, this masterpiece includes detailed descriptions of accounting methodology. This type of double-entry accounting with an inventory, balance sheet, and profit and loss statement remains a global standard to this day. We feel much indebted to Pacioli’s work, and our company name is our way of paying tribute.
And the journey continues...
Today, LucaNet is a multinational software and consulting company with subsidiaries all over the world. Our software solutions are used in more than 50 countries and we have customers of all sizes, in every sector.
As specialists in Financial Performance Management, we continue to work hard on improving our products, making them faster, easier to use and more efficient. Our aim will always be to provide our customers with high-quality and effective software solutions.
Our philosophy
Our values provide focus
We are united by a passion for efficient accounting. This is what has driven the development of our intelligent software solutions for financial consolidation, planning, reporting and analysis, which have raised the bar for the entire industry.
Our commitment to innovation, growth and an unrelenting customer focus has made us the leading provider in our field. Everything we do is about making our customers’ lives easier, building on an appreciation for fairness, long-term relationships and human interaction. We continue to shape the future through innovative products and services.
We know our mission
We know that our technological aptitude and a nose for trends will continue to be instrumental in the years to come, persisting in shaping the way Financial Performance Management is perceived and done. We will maintain our role as an innovation leader, continuing to shake up the status quo while setting standards for the entire industry.
Perfectionism is in our DNA
A burning desire for perfection and passion for detail are what motivates us every day to expand the capabilities of our software. We seek to innovate, both in terms of our technology and our conceptual approach, while simultaneously maintaining exceptionally high quality standards. We are lateral thinkers who do everything to find the best solutions for our customers – questioning standard solutions and practices and turning these on their head. We focus on how things should be done, not how they are currently done.