Vena Budgeting Review
February 21, 2022

Vena Budgeting Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

Vena is used at our company to manage and facilitate our annual budget process. Department leaders across the organization use it to enter their budget information and Vena automatically consolidates the data entry at a high level. This process alone saves me hours of work each year. Additionally, department leaders can access a report that shows monthly budget vs actuals and allows for the drill-down capability to the GL detail level.
  • Consolidation of large data sets
  • Easily limits data access by user
  • The ability to change or modify templates quickly
  • The quality of their outsourcing partners varies
  • Tendency to sometimes overcomplicate the system set up

Do you think Vena delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Vena's feature set?

Yes

Did Vena live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Vena go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Vena again?

Yes

  • Saved days worth of work during the budget process
Vena has offered great support throughout the entire process. Since going live our client service manager has been fantastic. She checks in with us on a regular basis, including formal quarterly account reviews. Whenever we've had an issue she is quick to provide help and get the problem solved. It's nice to know that if something breaks in the middle of the budget cycle we can count on a fast response.
Vena has made financial data much more accessible to department leaders outside of finance. Now any of them can access their department budget and/or actuals without any involvement from the finance team. It allows them to be able to track their performance to budget in near real-time and make adjustments as necessary.
Vena makes distributing budgeting templates to budget owners a breeze and consolidation of completed templates is automatic. Additionally, any tweaks that need to be made can quickly be pushed out as well to all users. The days of emailing individual spreadsheets to owners and manually compiling the results are gone with Vena. Additionally, their customer service has been fantastic. They are always quick to respond to any issues we've had.

Vena Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
10
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
Not Rated
Excel-based Reporting
Not Rated
Automated board and financial reporting
Not Rated
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
Personalized dashboards
Not Rated
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
Not Rated
Cost and profitability analysis
Not Rated
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Benchmarking with external data
Not Rated
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
Not Rated
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated