Vena Review
March 09, 2024

Vena Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

We adopted Vena for the preparation of our 2024 budget. Previously we were using Excel spreadsheets, but needed a more streamlined solution to bring all of the parts of our budget together into a final product. Vena allowed us to create detailed revenue and expense budgets, and allocate costs among departments as needed. We were also able to use Vena for our staffing budget and allocations, which was an improvement over our previous process.
  • Budget process
  • Allocations
  • Financial Reporting
  • Data model
  • Creating reports
  • Updating templates
  • Decreased time spent compiling Excel spreadsheets into final budget
  • Increased visibility into budget and financial results by program directors
  • Efficiencies in monthly financial reporting
We received excellent support throughout the implementation process, and continue to meet regularly with our customer success manager as we work to fully ramp up our use of Vena.
Allows for better insight into what went into the budget, as well as ability to drill down into the details of actual results.

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

Based on our experience Vena is well suited for our needs to create a budget for our organization that eliminated a lot of manual entry and piecing together of Excel spreadsheets. We are hoping to expand our use of Vena to include financial reporting as well, and have our finance stakeholders use Vena to access detailed information relating to their budgets and actual financial results. Vena may not be suitable for a very small organization with minimal complexity.

Vena Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
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
9
Excel-based Reporting
9
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
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
9
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
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Report-Level Access Control
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated