Ven-tastic Experience
Updated September 20, 2024

Ven-tastic Experience

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

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

Departmental- Camping Operations. Vena solves our financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and analysis needs. It has revolutionized the way we interact with finances and has driven management decision-making. Cannot imagine managing operations without it. The Excel interface changes the game regarding flexibility. It was this customizable adaptation that enabled us to navigate through COVID, making on the fly decisions as they arose.

Pros

  • Forecasting
  • Analysis
  • Strategic Planning
  • Reporting
  • Data input/Interaction

Cons

  • Vena's support of Apple products needs improvement
  • Mobile device access and support
  • Depth of technical knowledgebase articles
  • AI capabilities
  • More timely decision making
  • Greater collaboration between department leads
  • Interactive forecasting that drives business operations
  • Revenue growth through sophisticated analysis that drives behavior change
We've had lots of interaction with our customer success manager. As issues arise, we find our support calls are typically resolved within a few days. They have also been open to feedback on product innovations and road mapping future development. We've also used Vena for some other contract work to build out new processes. It's been great!
Vena was critical to our organization as we navigated the disastrous effects of COVID-19. Things were changing rapidly- daily even. Because our 200 users were connected and trained in Vena, we were able to garner ground-level truths about operations. This ultimately helped us make appropriate staffing decisions. It has also aided us in planning for the future rebuilding of our business model!
Vena is much more flexible than Adaptive. We deeply evaluated Adaptive, looking at database structures, workflows, user interfaces, reporting. While Adaptive is strong in some areas (predictive forecasting using AI etc..) it was not able to meet our needs with complex business processes. Vena's Excel base is familiar to all users, bringing comfort to them when interfacing with finances.

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

Vena is well suited to medium to large-sized organizations with disparate users needing access to financial data. The system has fostered collaboration in our daily work. It has driven decision-making by providing timely, accurate information that is interactive. Price-wise, it may be difficult for small organizations to justify. Shines brightest where lots of users are needed.

Vena Feature Ratings

9.2
Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
8.0
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
7
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
9
9.0
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
9
Automated board and financial reporting
9
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
8.4
Personalized dashboards
6
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
9
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Benchmarking with external data
9
6.3
Flat file integration
7
Excel data integration
7
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
5
Not Rated
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
8.7
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
9
6.0
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
7.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
6
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated

Vena Solutions Attributes

We use Vena support on a regular basis. They are generally responsive, within 24-48 hours depending on the issue. I have noticed they are quick to elevate technical issues or questions when warranted. This is good as we are power users and we often need deeper tech answers. We recently upgraded to a higher service tier and are enjoying the benefits of a dedicated team that guides our organization.
The website is easy for our end users to follow. The tasks are clear and can be customized as need be. Everyone in our organization is familiar with Excel and other Microsoft products, so they feel at home using it. From an administrator perspective, things are pretty intuitive. I'd certainly say it's easy to use.

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