Overall Satisfaction with Vena
We have created several customized reports for our organization and plan to use Vena for our monthly variance analysis and annual budget process. Vena is currently only being used by our finance department at the moment, but we plan to roll out Vena to the entire company within the next couple months. Vena will be used by all departments (baseball operations, scouting, technology, engineering, corporate partnerships) for our budget process. Vena
has allowed us to have more complex, customized reporting.
has allowed us to have more complex, customized reporting.
- Vena has the ability to create dynamic reports and manage our budgets/forecasts in one system while allowing end-user comments within the reports.
- The end-user interface is intuitive and easy to use, even for those users who don't work with excel.
- Vena has allowed us to provide the executive team more timely reporting and
- better transparency.
- The reports and templates can take up to 1-2 minutes to open, which can be frustrating when you want to pull a number or send a report quickly.
- The GL data load also takes 20-25 minutes to refresh. So if we post entries to our GL and want to capture them in our Vena reports, we have to manually kick off a refresh and wait 25 minutes to run the new reports.
- Steep learning curve for the Modeler role.
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?
No
Did implementation of Vena go as expected?
No
Would you buy Vena again?
Yes
- The sales/marketing team told us to expect a 6 week implementation, but it has been closer to 6 months and we are just now at a point where we can roll Vena out to all users. Definitely a break in communication between the sales team and the design/implementation teams on the timeline and amount of work it takes for an implementation.
- We have not been in Vena long enough to determine ROI or time save on our overall business objectives, but we are happy with the reporting and capabilities.
Vendor continues to support us via email and coaching calls if necessary.
The ability to create dynamic reports and manage our budgets/forecasts in one system while allowing end-user comments will save our team a ton of time and effort.
Vena has allowed us to have more complex, customized reporting. We can easily set permissions and restrictions to provide appropriate access to users across the entire company. Vena has allowed us to provide the executive team more timely
reporting and transparency.
Vena has allowed us to have more complex, customized reporting. We can easily set permissions and restrictions to provide appropriate access to users across the entire company. Vena has allowed us to provide the executive team more timely
reporting and transparency.
Vena has better reporting and budgeting functions than NetSuite Budgeting & Reporting when we compared the two. The Kansas City Chiefs currently use Vena and they had nothing but good things to say about it so that gave us confidence to go with Vena.
Vena Feature Ratings
Vena Solutions Attributes
Using Vena
35 - All business functions (finance, human resources, technology, baseball operations, scouting, corporate partnerships, sales).
3 - Finance team (analytical skills, CPA background)
- Financial Reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting/Cash Management
- Variance Analysis
- Customized Financial Reports
- Users can input comments to explain accounts are over/under budget
- Users can drill into numbers to get to the detailed transactions
- Budget/Forecasting Templates
- Full Season/Game Revenue Planning