Vena's flexibility makes it an incredible FP&A tool, especially in today's ever-changing business environment.

We began utilizing Vena as the budgeting solution for our department in 2018. Within our department, we now utilize Vena for forecasting, reporting, calendar analysis, and capital project planning in addition to budgeting. While Vena is still mostly isolated to our department, leadership in other departments frequently uses the reporting packages we create within the tool. A huge business problem Vena addressed was further staff engagement in the budgeting process. What used to be completed by a Manager in a static Excel document with occasional commentary from their team is now a collaborative effort in which the team is completing their own budgets to feed roll-up reporting for the Manager. This has created greater ownership amongst our teams, centralized workflow, and increased the accuracy of our budgets.

I was not involved in the sales process or initial implementation, but Vena's team - including technical support, product development, and customer success - have all been pretty solid in addressing issues as they arise. The tool continues to get better, tech support has improved over the past couple of years, and the customer success team is always willing to connect with whoever to ensure we're taken care of as a client.

Our organization has historically operated on a static budget compared to year-to-date actuals. Vena has given us the space to build a robust forecasting tool that makes our information exponentially better. The way that Vena connects our database to Excel templates also allows us to easily and quickly build reports and templates as needs arise. The flexibility of the tool has made us much more agile.