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What is Vena?
Vena Solutions provides a financial process automation solution to automate Corporate Performance Management, accounting and budgeting, Regulatory & Compliance, and other finance-related processes. It is scaled for medium to large-sized organizations.
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Popular Features
- Excel-based Reporting (194)9.393%
- Financial budgeting (202)9.292%
- Management reporting (199)8.888%
- Forecasting (193)8.686%
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Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8.6Pixel Perfect reports(48) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 8.8Customizable dashboards(75) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 8.7Report Formatting Templates(82) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8.7Drill-down analysis(167) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.4Formatting capabilities(166) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 6.8Integration with R or other statistical packages(48) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 8.4Report sharing and collaboration(144) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 9.2Publish to Web(62) Ratings
- 9Publish to PDF(91) Ratings
- 9.1Report Versioning(109) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8.7Report Delivery Scheduling(98) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 8.5Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(69) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 7.3Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(53) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 8.4Predictive Analytics(59) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 8Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(6) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 9Multi-User Support (named login)(157) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 9.2Role-Based Security Model(156) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 9.3Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(159) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 9.2Report-Level Access Control(22) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
- 9.2Single Sign-On (SSO)(116) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 9.2Responsive Design for Web Access(77) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 8.9Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(66) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning
- 8.7Long-term financial planning(187) Ratings
3-5 year financial plan with cashflow.
- 9.2Financial budgeting(202) Ratings
Annual budget for revenue and operating expenses, headcount/compensation, capital expenses, projects, etc.
- 8.6Forecasting(193) Ratings
Combining actuals and budgets, rolling forecasts, driver-based models.
- 8.1Scenario modeling(172) Ratings
Financial or operational modeling of alternate future states and planning for each.
- 8.8Management reporting(199) Ratings
Budget vs. actual or forecast, P&L’s, performance over time, between products etc.
Consolidation and Close
Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.
- 9.2Financial data consolidation(155) Ratings
Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.
- 8Journal entries and reports(110) Ratings
Ability to enter journal entry adjustments and produce reports showing all journal entries for a specific period.
- 7.2Multi-currency management(103) Ratings
Ability to handle foreign currency conversions during consolidation.
- 8.2Intercompany Eliminations(102) Ratings
Matching and elimination of intercompany revenue, expenses, and balance sheet accounts.
- 8.6Minority Ownership(66) Ratings
Consolidate financials full or partial ownership of subsidiaries, equity pick-up.
- 8.5Local and consolidated reporting(134) Ratings
Ability to report against individual business entities and the consolidated umbrella entity.
- 8.9Detailed Audit Trails(161) Ratings
Tracing changes to data and processes that were run.
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Financial statements and regulatory filings
- 9Financial Statement Reporting(180) Ratings
Creation and production of balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, other schedules
- 8.7Management Reporting(185) Ratings
Tools facilitating creation of internal ad hoc or standard reports.
- 9.3Excel-based Reporting(194) Ratings
Ad hoc or formatted reports using MS Excel.
- 8.8Automated board and financial reporting(139) Ratings
Tools to help automate creation of regulatory reports such as SEC filings and board books.
- 6.4XBRL support for regulatory filing(45) Ratings
Support for the XBRL standard reporting format for exchanging financial data.
Analytics and Reporting
Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking
- 8.4Personalized dashboards(121) Ratings
Create custom dashboards and reports without the help of IT or administrators.
- 8.9Color-coded scorecards(90) Ratings
Track and analyze performances with interactive, color-coded balanced scorecards.
- 8.9KPIs(105) Ratings
Select from a library of more than 6,000 key performance indicators, and incorporate KPIs into your planning process.
- 7.9Cost and profitability analysis(116) Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis provides data for business decision making.
- 9.1Key Performance Indicator setting(103) Ratings
Ability to set key performance indicators for measuring progress towards goals.
- 8.8Benchmarking with external data(77) Ratings
CPI, daily exchange rates, industry KPIs. with scheduled data refreshes.
Integration
Ability to integrate with external applications.
- 9.4Flat file integration(156) Ratings
Integration of flat files like text documents and comma separated files
- 8.8Excel data integration(180) Ratings
Ability to integrate directly with Excel data.
- 8.9Direct links to 3rd-party data sources(143) Ratings
Integration with external applications like ERP, CRM, HCM
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What is Vena?
Vena is a Native Excel Complete Planning Platform used for budgeting and forecasting, for business leaders and finance and operations professionals.
Vena boasts users among more than 1,350 companies such as Nike, Coca-Cola Consolidated and the Kansas City Chiefs. In addition, Vena works with over 100 Partners.
Vena Features
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features
- Supported: Long-term financial planning
- Supported: Financial budgeting
- Supported: Forecasting
- Supported: Scenario modeling
- Supported: Management reporting
Consolidation and Close Features
- Supported: Financial data consolidation
- Supported: Journal entries and reports
- Supported: Multi-currency management
- Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
- Supported: Minority Ownership
- Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
- Supported: Detailed Audit Trails
Financial Reporting and Compliance Features
- Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
- Supported: Management Reporting
- Supported: Excel-based Reporting
- Supported: Automated board and financial reporting
- Supported: XBRL support for regulatory filing
Analytics and Reporting Features
- Supported: Personalized dashboards
- Supported: Color-coded scorecards
- Supported: KPIs
- Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
- Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
- Supported: Benchmarking with external data
Integration Features
- Supported: Flat file integration
- Supported: Excel data integration
- Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
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Vena Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | You don't need to download an app or change a setting to use Vena on your mobile device: just open your browser, go to Vena (vena.io), and log in as you normally do. The Contributor interface is fully responsive, so it can adjust to any size screen, regardless of the type of device you have. |
Supported Countries | United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Europe |
Supported Languages | Vena supports any localization capabilities already native within Excel. Vena Cloud supports English, Spanish, and French. If a specific language is required please don’t hesitate to ask. |
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Vena Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 19% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 55% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 26% |
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- 8.6Likelihood to Renew18 ratings
- 8.8Availability6 ratings
- 8.5Performance6 ratings
- 9Usability25 ratings
- 10Support Rating95 ratings
- 8.9Online Training3 ratings
- 9In-Person Training3 ratings
- 7.5Implementation Rating4 ratings
- 8.2Configurability3 ratings
- 8.8Product Scalability6 ratings
- 8.9Ease of integration3 ratings
- 8.9Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 8.8Vendor post-sale3 ratings
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- Consolidation - have saved so many hours by not having to manually consolidate spreadsheets
- Audit trail history - we were able to find out who made a change that was questionable
- Drillable feature that allows our users to drill into the details of financials
- Ease of use
- Sometimes the templates are a bit complicated to use and could be a little bit more straightforward if all the dimensions are defined in the workbook.
- I would make the security easier to use.
- Helpdesk
- Long-term financial planning
- 90%9.0
- Financial budgeting
- 100%10.0
- Forecasting
- 80%8.0
- Scenario modeling
- 80%8.0
- Management reporting
- 90%9.0
- Financial data consolidation
- 80%8.0
- Journal entries and reports
- 90%9.0
- Local and consolidated reporting
- 90%9.0
- Detailed Audit Trails
- 100%10.0
- Financial Statement Reporting
- 90%9.0
- Management Reporting
- 90%9.0
- Excel-based Reporting
- 100%10.0
- Automated board and financial reporting
- 90%9.0
- Personalized dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Color-coded scorecards
- 100%10.0
- KPIs
- 90%9.0
- Cost and profitability analysis
- 100%10.0
- Key Performance Indicator setting
- 90%9.0
- Benchmarking with external data
- 90%9.0
- Flat file integration
- 100%10.0
- Excel data integration
- 100%10.0
- Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
- 90%9.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 100%10.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 100%10.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 100%10.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 100%10.0
- Report Versioning
- 90%9.0
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 90%9.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 90%9.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 80%8.0
- Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- N/AN/A
- Multi-User Support (named login)
- 90%9.0
- Role-Based Security Model
- 90%9.0
- Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- 90%9.0
- Report-Level Access Control
- N/AN/A
- Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
- 90%9.0
- Saved significant man hours during budgeting
- Improved Reporting
- Audit trail history is available
- Forecasting
- Reporting
- Consolidation
- Custom Template for Raises
- Operations Custom Dashboard
- Capital Budgets
- Additional Dashboards
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
- Implemented in-house
- timing
- Online Training
- In-Person Training
- No Training
- Security
- Workflow
- Ongoing support
- Templates can get complicated if not well designed
- Dynamics GP
- Operational websites
- File import/export
- ETL tools
- n/a
- I would like to see comments roll up to the summary level
Very happy with Vena and have not looked back
- Annual budget cycle: across the entire organization.
- Financial reporting on a period basis: deploying across sections of the organization.
- Forecasting: across portions of the organization.
- Consolidation and aggregation
- Full audit trail: Who changed what number when and what was it before the change?
- Version control: One master template deployed across numerous users.
- Faster report creation.
- Post implementation provides periodic review of templates for performance updates.
- Monitor template performance for the time of data calls that drastically increase over time. Investigate and assist the customer with issues consuming your server and the customer's time.
- Internet connectivity backbone can be problematic for users who are used to being on wifi and pick up and move elsewhere in the middle of templates.
- Long-term financial planning
- 90%9.0
- Financial budgeting
- 90%9.0
- Forecasting
- 90%9.0
- Scenario modeling
- 70%7.0
- Management reporting
- 80%8.0
- Financial data consolidation
- 90%9.0
- Journal entries and reports
- N/AN/A
- Multi-currency management
- N/AN/A
- Intercompany Eliminations
- N/AN/A
- Minority Ownership
- N/AN/A
- Local and consolidated reporting
- N/AN/A
- Detailed Audit Trails
- 100%10.0
- Financial Statement Reporting
- 90%9.0
- Management Reporting
- 90%9.0
- Excel-based Reporting
- 100%10.0
- Automated board and financial reporting
- 80%8.0
- XBRL support for regulatory filing
- N/AN/A
- Personalized dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Color-coded scorecards
- 80%8.0
- KPIs
- 80%8.0
- Cost and profitability analysis
- 80%8.0
- Key Performance Indicator setting
- 80%8.0
- Benchmarking with external data
- 70%7.0
- Flat file integration
- 90%9.0
- Excel data integration
- 100%10.0
- Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
- 80%8.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- N/AN/A
- Customizable dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 80%8.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 80%8.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 90%9.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 90%9.0
- Publish to Web
- N/AN/A
- Publish to PDF
- 70%7.0
- Report Versioning
- 70%7.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 70%7.0
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 60%6.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 50%5.0
- Multi-User Support (named login)
- 80%8.0
- Role-Based Security Model
- 80%8.0
- Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- 80%8.0
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- 80%8.0
- Reduced overhead with the entire budget cycle.
- Reduced effort to publish period financials.
- Reduced effort needed to collect forecasts from all operating managers.
- Financial Reporting and forecasting by operational unit
- Annual Budget
- Variance Analysis
- Unique KPIs in our Financials that normally would not flow into our P&L's
- Financial reporting training
- internal non-financial reporting HR metrics
- Price
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- lack of additional internal man hours set aside
- Online Training
- In-Person Training
- Native Excel
- aggregation level reporting
- template design
- live data connections without additional costs
- Sage
- File import/export
- ETL tools
Harness the Power and Flexibility of Excel with a Vena Solutions Database and Workflows!
- Vena's strength is allowing the use of all features and functionality in Excel while also providing workflow and approval processes that can be managed on a department by department basis.
- Having the database with saved data behind the Excel interface allow for consolidation of data and reporting at multiple organizational levels, along with providing the flexibility needed to build reports exactly as needed for each financial process.
- Intuitive and powerful workflow functionality allows us to pre-determine our distribution cycle for spreadsheets including managing the review process, which also captures full auditing. As administrators, we can view the status of each department's work and the point at which each is in the workflow using the easily navigated management tools.
- Version and change control of spreadsheets allows us to track changes made to spreadsheets from one year to the next as new requirements surface.
- End users who have been accustomed to using Excel for budgeting and other processes required very little training, and we were able to enhance our previous blank Excel templates with pre-filled data for actuals, prior year budgets and personnel budgets. This allows department managers to focus on creating an accurate budget rather than spending time doing data entry and off-system analysis (which they often don't do). Users commented that implementing Vena was the best implementation we've had.
- Customer support is great and very responsive! The training consultants are also very knowledgeable in Excel functions and provide ways to enhance templates and reporting by providing a combination of Vena and Excel solutions.
- Vena Solutions provides users with extended Excel functionality and flexibility, especially for spreadsheet-driven processes. Vena can store a wide variety of data, allowing us to use Vena for financial processes, reporting, operations planning and human resource planning.
- When first learning to use Vena, it may seem that reports can't be created as easily as in other solutions - there's no drag and drop from a selection of fields. However, once the Vena tool is learned, reporting becomes much easier.
- The flexibility of Vena may also be a downside for some administrators. A vision for what a template or report should look like and do is needed as building a template or report starts with a blank Excel workbook.
- Vena isn't the flashiest budgeting tool available, but we believe the flexible functionality outweighs the looks of other software.
- Long-term financial planning
- 100%10.0
- Financial budgeting
- 100%10.0
- Forecasting
- 100%10.0
- Scenario modeling
- 100%10.0
- Management reporting
- 100%10.0
- Financial data consolidation
- 100%10.0
- Journal entries and reports
- N/AN/A
- Multi-currency management
- N/AN/A
- Intercompany Eliminations
- N/AN/A
- Minority Ownership
- N/AN/A
- Local and consolidated reporting
- 100%10.0
- Detailed Audit Trails
- 100%10.0
- Financial Statement Reporting
- N/AN/A
- Management Reporting
- 100%10.0
- Excel-based Reporting
- 100%10.0
- Automated board and financial reporting
- N/AN/A
- Personalized dashboards
- N/AN/A
- Color-coded scorecards
- N/AN/A
- KPIs
- N/AN/A
- Cost and profitability analysis
- N/AN/A
- Key Performance Indicator setting
- N/AN/A
- Benchmarking with external data
- N/AN/A
- Flat file integration
- 100%10.0
- Excel data integration
- 100%10.0
- Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
- N/AN/A
- Vena Solutions has allowed us to automate and consolidate our budgeting and forecasting processes, thereby reducing manual data entry time, spreadsheet consolidation time and human error, resulting in improved turnaround time and more accurate budgets and reporting data. Budget administrators no longer have to check each worksheet for accuracy of accounts used and can easily see where more budget balancing work is required.
- Providing current financial information to users within the budgeting template has helped users create more accurate budgets.
- Our previous approval process required passing around of paper Excel documents for signature. This can all be done within Vena now, so paper movement is no longer required. Managers can also request department users to resubmit budgets as necessary through the approval process.
- We estimate the ROI for Vena became positive between year 2 and 3. The savings is mainly due to lower labor costs as we had not invested in any budgeting solution prior to using Vena.
- Adaptive Suite, Xlerant, Alight Planning and IBM Cognos
- All departments across our university through all reporting levels - department administrators, managers, division directors, vice presidents and president.
- Academic areas, as well as administrative and fund raising areas.
- Everyone in the University who is involved in the budgeting, forecasting and/or salary increase planning processes.
- Knowledge of Excel and knowledge of how Vena interacts with Excel, along with a good grasp of the data collection and retrieval process used with the Vena data model. The data model is built on our chart of accounts, but we are also using elements to collect and report non-financial data.
- Understanding of how workflows are built and function.
- Annual Budgeting - We have a two step process that uses assumptions to create tuition, fees, enrollment and other revenue budgets, as well as apply inflation increases to expense lines. The second phase uses the first phase to allocate portions of the first phase to departments and serves as a target budget for each department.
- Annual forecasting - We require departments to estimate fiscal year end revenue and expense amounts based on actuals and budgets through a portion of the fiscal year.
- Salary Increase Planning - Managers allocate salary increases (based on an allocated amount) to personnel within the departments using percentage changes, flat changes or hourly dollar amounts.
- We did not expect to be able to use data collected from one process for a different process, but with the flexibility of the Excel templates and Vena solution, we have been able to do so. Previously, we had to reconstruct data from one process for use in another. For example, we use the salary increase planning data collected in the Fall in our annual budgeting process for the following year budget.
- Being able to create very customized reports that don't aggregate data on the same level - we can include data at the revenue or expense account level and also at the department level in the same report to meet our internal reporting requirements.
- We would like to use Vena for our annual audited financial statements so that we won't have to manually update stand alone spreadsheets, statements and footnotes when our actuals are updated during the financial statement preparation time period.
- We would like to use Vena to collect interdepartmental billing data on a monthly basis, which would be able to validate data in ways that isn't possible with standalone spreadsheets.
- Implemented in-house
- When interviewing users of other solutions during reference calls, we found that none of the users were able to make any updates to their solutions - they all had to go back to the software company for any changes. This also did not allow them to use the solution for other processes without the software company being involved in the solution. Vena was able to train our main Vena administrator during the implementation (administrator built the templates with guidance from the Vena consultant) and has since been able to roll out new templates, reports and new processes with minimal help from Vena.
- The main Vena administrator was able to train other administrators in template and report building via 1 hour training sessions over about an 8 week time period. Other training has been done on an ad hoc basis as necessary.
- Sometimes it was hard to communicate over webex what our requirements were so the consultant would know how to guide us in template building, but this was not a significant problem especially considering the very large and complicated standalone workbook we had been using.