Prophix vs Vena

• Prophix helps tremendously with the budgeting process. It allows scalability when we add new programs. The flexibility of Prophix allows for an accurate and efficient budgeting process.
• Prophix does an excellent job at building data integrations, which helps feed the most recent data into Prophix with no manual processes.
• Prophix's customer support team is amazing and is always willing to help you build more functionality into the product as time goes on and additional needs are identified.

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• Vena is easily adoptable by new users because it is Excel based. Staff are not intimidated by the software.
• It's easy to distribute monthly reports to the staff with Vena's workflows and Report Books. Once those are set up, distributing monthly financials to individual departments is an easy process.
• It's easy for us to upload data from our accounting system - at the transaction level - to Vena. We simply download a file from our accounting system and upload it into Vena. Whatever manipulation of the data that's required is done by Vena. We don't have to do anything.
• Vena's customer service is excellent. Their customer service reps. are pretty good and I will say they are fair-minded during contract renewals. I never feel like they're gouging me. They are decent people to work with.

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• More flexibility needed in dashboard chart design
• More flexibility in how accounts roll-up (children added together = parent total; sometimes I need to average the children to get the parent, but that is not a current feature)
• I wish ad hoc analysis was available for standard users

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• Template automation encountering issues due to certain excel functions used.
• Mac users often have issues.
• There should be a built-in option to automatically overwrite actual periods with actual data in forecast scenarios.
• Users must be proficient in Excel to use Vena to its full potential.

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• Not only did it cut significant time off our budgeting cycle, but it allowed us to do things we couldn't even do in excel versions (i.e., load in another month of data for comparables three days before presenting to executive team).
• Month-end reporting has resulted in the ability to continually tweak reporting to focus end-users on what's important; our previous reporting package (inside our accounting software) was far too cumbersome to make this work.
• Moving all of my other data functions inside Prophix has resulted in not only a lot more efficiency for me, *but* it allows me answer about 95% of ad hoc questions coming at me with the data I now have stored, as opposed to starting from scratch by extracting raw data out of our original systems every time.

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• Through the roof! Time savings were never quantified but when you save weeks of time, not much more needs to be said.
• We are way more efficient in our budgeting and forecasting processes as a result of utilizing the Vena workflow processes.
• Just having information at our fingertips to perform our duties is priceless!

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