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Intuitive and efficient reporting/modelling
November 28, 2022

Intuitive and efficient reporting/modelling

Thanushyon Thiyagarajah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

Vena is being used by the Finance department to produce monthly management reporting including financials and KPIs. Primarily, it is the central source for all management information. Additionally, we produce flash forecasting and are building out all of our financial reporting within it.
  • Versatile reports that interact directly with the data cube
  • Concurrent editing of information ensuring version control
  • Robust backup allowing roll back of data and model
  • Restore deleted models
  • Duplicate tabs in a report to a new section and block

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Vena again?

Yes

  • 20 hours saved on board reporting
  • Huge efficiencies in MI reporting processes
  • Regular catch ups
  • Very responsive to queries
  • Favourable pricing
  • Accurate financial information
  • Up to date data
  • Presenting KPIs
  • Great user interface to build data models and interact with the cube directly from Excel
  • Can build and automate the reporting and forecasting process
  • Version control processes and data input
  • Allows user input from various groups across the organisation in standardised format

Vena Feature Ratings

10.0
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
10
Management reporting
10
7.6
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
7
Multi-currency management
9
Intercompany Eliminations
6
Minority Ownership
4
Local and consolidated reporting
10
Detailed Audit Trails
7
9.5
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
10
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
6.8
Personalized dashboards
6
Color-coded scorecards
8
KPIs
7
Cost and profitability analysis
6
Key Performance Indicator setting
7
Benchmarking with external data
7
5.0
Flat file integration
6
Excel data integration
6
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
3
Not Rated
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
7.0
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Not Rated
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
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
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated