A great reporting time-saving tool
March 15, 2024

A great reporting time-saving tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

Used as a financial reporting tool currently for reporting across all departments. Has taken us from a slow loading/refreshing/saving Excel file with over 200k lines, to a quick and accurate report.
  • Mapping of SAP source data
  • Quick Reporting
  • Allows for calculations within Vena for Standard Costs
  • Having the ability to refresh data with mapping changes without reloading it.
  • Having end user able to set up/manipulate the system without a consultant's help
  • A huge saving on time
  • Time freed up to value add
  • Standardised reporting
I wasn't involved in the sales side but post implementation the team came over to meet us
All our reports are now standardised and data in the same format so and the data refreshes in seconds so it's been a massive value add for us.
Tableau is by far the best tool I've used. Vena in comparison is very good but it's missing the master data link to SAP, and the ability of data to refresh when the hierarchies move. It's also lacking standard reports on system set up like basic P&L's, etc. It's also missing the ability to save ad-hoc analysis reports, so you don't have to start from scratch every time. This is a key issue for us. Found Tableau great that you could save lots of pivot type tables to use for lots of different requests.

Do you think Vena delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Vena's feature set?

Yes

Did Vena live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Vena go as expected?

No

Would you buy Vena again?

Yes

Vena is perfect for a simple small business and can handle a larger business also with some complexities

Vena Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
Not Rated
Forecasting
Not Rated
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
8
Financial data consolidation
8
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
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
8
Excel-based Reporting
8
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
7
Excel data integration
7
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
6
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
1
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
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.)
1
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Report-Level Access Control
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated