Excel Online Drivers & Connectors
for Data Integration

Read, Write, and Update Microsoft Office Excel Online through easy-to-use, bi-directional data drivers. Easily integrate Excel Online data with BI, Reporting, Analytics, ETL Tools, and Custom Solutions.


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BI & Analytics



Our drivers offer the fastest and easiest way to connect real-time Excel Online data with BI, analytics, reporting and data visualization technologies. They provide unmatched query performance, comprehensive access to Excel Online data and metadata, and seamlessly integrate with your favorite analytics tools.

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Popular BI & Analytics Integrations



Alteryx Designer: Prepare, Blend, and Analyze Excel Online in Alteryx Designer (ODBC) Alteryx Designer: Work with Live Excel Online Data in Alteryx Designer (Connect Cloud) Amazon QuickSight: Build Interactive Dashboards from Excel Online Data in Amazon QuickSight Amazon SageMaker: Integrate Live Excel Online data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas Aqua Data Studio: Connect to Excel Online in Aqua Data Studio AWS Databricks: Process & Analyze Excel Online Data in Databricks (AWS) Azure Analysis Services: Model Excel Online Data Using Azure Analysis Services Birst: Build Visualizations of Excel Online in Birst BIRT: Design BIRT Reports on Excel Online Clear Analytics: Build Charts with Excel Online in Clear Analytics Cognos Analytics (On-Prem): Analyze Excel Online Data in Cognos Analytics DBxtra: Build Dashboards with Excel Online in DBxtra Domo: Create Datasets from Excel Online in Domo Workbench Dundas BI: Build Dashboards with Excel Online in Dundas BI Excel (on Mac OS): Work with Excel Online Data in MS Excel on Mac OS X FineReport: Feed Excel Online into FineReport Google Sheets: Access Live Excel Online Data in Google Sheets IBM Cognos BI: Create Data Visualizations in Cognos BI with Excel Online Infragistics Reveal: Analyze Excel Online Data in Infragistics Reval JasperServer: Create Excel Online Reports on JasperReports Server Jaspersoft BI Suite: Connect to Excel Online in Jaspersoft Studio JReport Designer: Integrate with Excel Online in JReport Designer Klipfolio: Create Excel Online-Connected Visualizations in Klipfolio KNIME: Enable the Excel Online JDBC Driver in KNIME LINQPad: Working with Excel Online in LINQPad Looker: Analyze Excel Online Data in Looker Looker Studio: Create Reports from Excel Online Data in Looker Studio Metabase: Create Interactive Excel Online-Connected Metabase Dashboards Microsoft Excel: Access Live Excel Online Data in Excel Desktop Microsoft Excel for the Web: Access Live Excel Online Data in Excel for the Web Microsoft SSAS: Build an OLAP Cube in SSAS from Excel Online MicroStrategy: Connect to Live Excel Online Data in MicroStrategy through Connect Cloud MicroStrategy: Use the CData JDBC Driver for Excel Online in MicroStrategy Microstrategy Desktop: Use the CData JDBC Driver for Excel Online in MicroStrategy Desktop Microstrategy Web: Use the CData JDBC Driver for Excel Online in MicroStrategy Web Mode Analytics: Create Excel Online-Connected Visualizations in Mode OBIEE: Excel Online Reporting in OBIEE with the Excel Online JDBC Driver pandas: Use pandas to Visualize Excel Online in Python Pentaho Report Designer: Integrate Excel Online in the Pentaho Report Designer Power BI Desktop: Author Power BI Reports on Real-Time Excel Online Power BI Service: Visualize Live Excel Online Data in the Power BI Service Power Pivot: Access Excel Online Data in Microsoft Power Pivot Power Query: Access Excel Online Data in Microsoft Power Query Qlik Cloud: Create Apps from Excel Online Data in Qlik Sense Cloud QlikView: Connect to and Query Excel Online in QlikView over ODBC R: Analyze Excel Online in R (JDBC) R: Analyze Excel Online in R (ODBC) RapidMiner: Connect to Excel Online in RapidMiner Redash: Query, Visualize, and Share live Excel Online Data in Redash SAP Analytics Cloud: Analyze Excel Online Data in SAP Analytics Cloud SAP Business Objects: Create an SAP BusinessObjects Universe on the CData JDBC Driver for Excel Online SAP Crystal Reports: Publish Reports with Excel Online in Crystal Reports (JDBC) SAP Crystal Reports: Publish Reports with Excel Online in Crystal Reports (Connect Cloud) SAS: Use the CData ODBC Driver for Excel Online in SAS for Real-Time Reporting and Analytics SAS JMP: Use the CData ODBC Driver for Excel Online in SAS JMP SAS Viya: Analyze Live Excel Online Data in SAS Viya Sisense: Visualize Live Excel Online in Sisense Spago BI: Connect to Excel Online in SpagoBI Tableau: Visualize Excel Online in Tableau Desktop Tableau Cloud: Build Excel Online Visualizations in Tableau Cloud Tableau Server: Publish Excel Online-Connected Dashboards in Tableau Server TIBCO Spotfire: Visualize Excel Online in TIBCO Spotfire through ADO.NET TIBCO Spotfire: Visualize Excel Online Data in TIBCO Spotfire TIBCO Spotfire Server: Operational Reporting on Excel Online from Spotfire Server Visio: Link Visio Shapes to Excel Online Zoho Analytics: Create Excel Online-Connected Dashboards in Zoho Analytics

ETL, Replication, & Warehousing



From drivers and adapters that extend your favorite ETL tools with Excel Online connectivity to ETL/ELT tools for Excel Online data integration — our Excel Online integration solutions provide robust, reliable, and secure data movement.

Connect your RDBMS or data warehouse with Excel Online to facilitate operational reporting, offload queries and increase performance, support data governance initiatives, archive data for disaster recovery, and more.


Popular Data Warehousing Integrations



Airbyte: Connect to Excel Online Data in Airbyte ELT Pipelines Amazon Redshift: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Amazon Redshift Amazon S3: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Amazon S3 Apache Airflow: Bridge Excel Online Connectivity with Apache Airflow Apache Camel: Integrate with Excel Online using Apache Camel Apache Cassandra: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Apache Cassandra Apache Kafka: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Apache Kafka Apache NiFi: Bridge Excel Online Connectivity with Apache NiFi Apache NiFi Batch Operations: Perform Batch Operations with Excel Online Data in Apache NiFi AWS Glue: Build ETL Jobs with Excel Online Data in AWS Glue Jobs Azure Data Factory: Import Excel Online Data Using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Lake: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Azure Data Lake Azure Synapse: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Azure Synapse BIML: Use Biml to Build SSIS Tasks to Replicate Excel Online to SQL Server CloverDX: Connect to Excel Online in CloverDX (formerly CloverETL) Couchbase: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Couchbase CSV: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Local Delimited Files Databricks: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Databricks ETL Validator: How to Work with Excel Online in ETL Validator FoxPro: Work with Excel Online in FoxPro Google AlloyDB: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Google AlloyDB Google BigQuery: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Google BigQuery Google Cloud SQL: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Google Cloud SQL Google Data Fusion: Build Excel Online-Connected ETL Processes in Google Data Fusion Google Data Fusion: Build Pipelines with Live Excel Online Data in Google Cloud Data Fusion (CData Connect Cloud) Heroku / Salesforce Connect: Replicate Excel Online for Use in Salesforce Connect HULFT Integrate: Connect to Excel Online in HULFT Integrate IBM DB2: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to IBM DB2 Informatica Cloud: Integrate Excel Online in Your Informatica Cloud Instance Informatica PowerCenter: Create Informatica Mappings From/To a JDBC Data Source for Excel Online Jaspersoft ETL: Connect to Excel Online in Jaspersoft Studio Microsoft Access: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Microsoft Access Microsoft Azure Tables: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Azure SQL Microsoft Power Automate: Build Excel Online-Connected Automated Tasks with Power Automate (Desktop) MongoDB: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to MongoDB MySQL: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to MySQL Oracle Data Integrator: ETL Excel Online in Oracle Data Integrator Oracle Database: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Oracle petl: Extract, Transform, and Load Excel Online in Python PostgreSQL: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to PostgreSQL Replicate to MySQL: Replicate Excel Online to MySQL with PowerShell SAP HANA: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to SAP HANA SingleStore: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to SingleStore SnapLogic: Integrate Excel Online with External Services using SnapLogic (JDBC) SnapLogic: Integration with Excel Online Data in SnapLogic (Connect Cloud) Snowflake: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to Snowflake SQL Server: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to SQL Server SQL Server Linked Server: Connect to Excel Online Data as a SQL Server Linked Server SQLite: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to SQLite Talend: Connect to Excel Online and Transfer Data in Talend UiPath Studio: Create an RPA Flow that Connects to Excel Online in UiPath Studio Vertica: Automated Continuous Excel Online Replication to a Vertica Database

Workflow & Automation Tools



Connect to Excel Online from popular data migration, ESB, iPaaS, and BPM tools.

Our drivers and adapters provide straightforward access to Excel Online data from popular applications like BizTalk, MuleSoft, SQL SSIS, Microsoft Flow, Power Apps, Talend, and many more.

Popular Workflow & Automation Tool Integrations



Developer Tools & Technologies



The easiest way to integrate with Excel Online from anywhere. Our Excel Online drivers offer a data-centric model for Excel Online that dramatically simplifies integration — allowing developers to build higher quality applications, faster than ever before. Learn more about the benefits for developers:



Popular Developer Integrations



AWS Lambda: Access Live Excel Online Data in AWS Lambda .NET Charts: DataBind Charts to Excel Online .NET QueryBuilder: Rapidly Develop Excel Online-Driven Apps with Active Query Builder Angular JS: Using AngularJS to Build Dynamic Web Pages with Excel Online Apache Spark: Work with Excel Online in Apache Spark Using SQL AppSheet: Create Excel Online-Connected Business Apps in AppSheet Bubble.io: Build Excel Online-Connected Apps in Bubble C++Builder: DataBind Controls to Excel Online Data in C++Builder Choreo: Build Custom Apps on Excel Online Data in Choreo ColdFusion: Query Excel Online in ColdFusion Using JDBC ColdFusion: Query Excel Online in ColdFusion Using ODBC Dash: Use Dash & Python to Build Web Apps on Excel Online Delphi: DataBind Controls to Excel Online Data in Delphi DevExpress: DataBind Excel Online to the DevExpress Data Grid EF - Code First: Access Excel Online with Entity Framework 6 EF - LINQ: LINQ to Excel Online EF - MVC: Build MVC Applications with Connectivity to Excel Online Filemaker Pro: Bidirectional Access to Excel Online from FileMaker Pro Filemaker Pro (on Mac): Bidirectional Access to Excel Online from FileMaker Pro (on Mac) Go: Write a Simple Go Application to work with Excel Online on Linux Google Apps Script: Connect to Excel Online Data in Google Apps Script Hibernate: Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) with Excel Online Entities in Java IntelliJ: Connect to Excel Online in IntelliJ JBoss: Connect to Excel Online from a Connection Pool in JBoss JDBI: Create a Data Access Object for Excel Online using JDBI Jitterbit: Integrate with Live Excel Online Data in Jitterbit JRuby: Connect to Excel Online in JRuby Mendix: Build Excel Online-Connected Apps in Mendix Microsoft Power Apps: Integrate Live Excel Online Data into Custom Business Apps Built in Power Apps NodeJS: Query Excel Online Data in Node.js (via Connect Cloud) NodeJS: Query Excel Online through ODBC in Node.js OutSystems: Create Excel Online-Connected Enterprise Applications in OutSystems PHP: Access Excel Online in PHP through Connect Server PHP: Natively Connect to Excel Online in PHP PowerBuilder: Connect to Excel Online from PowerBuilder PowerShell: Pipe Excel Online to CSV in PowerShell PyCharm: Using the CData ODBC Driver for Excel Online in PyCharm Python: Connect to Excel Online in Python on Linux/UNIX React: Build Dynamic React Apps with Excel Online Data Ruby: Connect to Excel Online in Ruby RunMyProcess: Connect to Excel Online Data in RunMyProcess RunMyProcess DSEC: Connect to Excel Online in DigitalSuite Studio through RunMyProcess DSEC SAP UI5: Integrate Real-Time Access to Excel Online in SAPUI5 MVC Apps Servoy: Build Excel Online-Connected Apps in Servoy Spring Boot: Access Live Excel Online Data in Spring Boot Apps SQLAlchemy: Use SQLAlchemy ORMs to Access Excel Online in Python Tomcat: Configure the CData JDBC Driver for Excel Online in a Connection Pool in Tomcat Unqork: Create Excel Online-Connected Applications in Unqork VCL App (RAD Studio): Build a Simple VCL Application for Excel Online WebLogic: Connect to Excel Online from a Connection Pool in WebLogic


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The Excel Online driver acts like a bridge that facilitates communication between various applications and Excel Online, allowing the application to read data as if it were a relational database. The Excel Online driver abstracts the complexities of Excel Online APIs, authentication methods, and data types, making it simple for any application to connect to Excel Online data in real-time via standard SQL queries.

Working with a Excel Online Driver is different than connecting with Excel Online through other means. Excel Online API integrations require technical experience from a software developer or IT resources. Additionally, due to the constant evolution of APIs and services, once you build your integration you have to constantly maintain Excel Online integration code moving forward.

By comparison, our Excel Online Drivers offer codeless access to live Excel Online data for both technical and non-technical users alike. Any user can install our drivers and begin working with live Excel Online data from any client application. Because our drivers conform to standard data interfaces like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET etc. they offer a consistent, maintenance-free interface to Excel Online data. We manage all of the complexities of Excel Online integration within each driver and deploy updated drivers as systems evolve so your applications continue to run seamlessly.

If you need truly zero-maintenance integration, check out connectivity to Excel Online via CData Connect Cloud. With Connect Cloud you can configure all of your data connectivity in one place and connect to Excel Online from any of the available Cloud Drivers and Client Applications. Connectivity to Excel Online is managed in the cloud, and you never have to worry about installing new drivers when Excel Online is updated.

Many organizations draw attention to their library of connectors. After all, data connectivity is a core capability needed for applications to maximize their business value. However, it is essential to understand exactly what you are getting when evaluating connectivity. Some vendors are happy to offer connectors that implement basic proof-of-concept level connectivity. These connectors may highlight the possibilities of working with Excel Online, but often only provide a fraction of capability. Finding real value from these connectors usually requires additional IT or development resources.

Unlike these POC-quality connectors, every CData Excel Online driver offers full-featured Excel Online data connectivity. The CData Excel Online drivers support extensive Excel Online integration, providing access to all of the Excel Online data and meta-data needed by enterprise integration or analytics projects. Each driver contains a powerful embedded SQL engine that offers applications easy and high-performance access to all Excel Online data. In addition, our drivers offer robust authentication and security capabilities, allowing users to connect securely across a wide range of enterprise configurations. Compare drivers and connectors to read more about some of the benefits of CData's driver connectivity.

With our drivers and connectors, every data source is essentially SQL-based. The CData Excel Online driver contains a full SQL-92 compliant engine that translates standard SQL queries into Excel Online API calls dynamically. Queries are parsed and optimized for each data source, pushing down as much of the request to Excel Online as possible. Any logic that can not be pushed to Excel Online is handled transparently client-side by the driver/connector engine. Ultimately, this means that Excel Online looks and acts exactly like a database to any client application or tool. Users can integrate live Excel Online connectivity with ANY software solution that can talk to a standard database.

The Excel Online drivers and connectors offer comprehensive access to Excel Online data. Our Excel Online driver exposes static and dynamic data and metadata, providing universal access to Excel Online data for any enterprise analytics or data mangement use. To explore the Excel Online driver data model, please review the edition-specific Excel Online driver documentation.

Using the CData Excel Online drivers and connectors, Excel Online can be easily integrated with almost any application. Any software or technology that can integrate with a database or connect with standards-based drivers like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, etc., can use our drivers for live Excel Online data connectivity. Explore some of the more popular Excel Online data integrations online.

Additionally, since Excel Online supported by CData Connect Cloud, we enable all kinds of new Excel Online cloud integrations.

Excel Online Analytics and Excel Online Cloud BI integration is universally supported for BI and data science. In addition, CData provides native client connectors for popular analytics applications like Power BI, Tableau, and Excel that simplify Excel Online data integration. Additionally, native Python connectors are widely available for data science and data engineering projects that integrate seamlessly with popular tools like Pandas, SQLAlchemy, Dash, and Petl.

Excel Online data integration is typically enabled with CData Sync, a robust any-to-any data pipeline solution that is easy to set up, runs everywhere, and offers comprehensive enterprise-class features for data engineering. CData Sync makes it easy to replicate Excel Online data any database or data warehouse, and maintain parity between systems with automated incremental Excel Online replication. In addition, our Excel Online drivers and connectors can be easily embedded into a wide range of data integration tools to augment existing solutions.

Absolutely. The best way to integrate Excel Online with Excel is by using the CData Connect Cloud Excel Add-In. The Excel Online Excel Add-In provides easy Excel Online integration directly from Microsoft Excel Desktop, Mac, or Web (Excel 365). Simply configure your connection to Excel Online from the easy-to-use cloud interface, and access Excel Online just like you would another native Excel data source.