The easy excel integration in Vena really helped us simplify our financial planning and reduced various errors
December 31, 2024

The easy excel integration in Vena really helped us simplify our financial planning and reduced various errors

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

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

With Vena's real time collaboration tools it becomes quite simple to budget, forecast and do our financial plannings. Also teams who already know microsoft excel will find the change easy due to its seamless connection and easy consolidation.

Pros

  • using Vena to automate repetitive financial tasks helps to save a lot of time and reduces errors
  • spreadsheet oriented users will find its excel based interface rather intuitive
  • the strong reporting and analytics capabilities will assist you to make better decisions

Cons

  • the high learning curve means that inexperienced users could find it challenging to become competent with all of Vena's features
  • for people not at ease with spreadsheets, its dependency on excel skills can be problematic
  • smaller teams or businesses with simple requirements could find it overwhelming
  • two usually labor intensive operations that have benefited much from automation are data input and consolidation
  • thanks to Vena's strong analytics solutions, which have improved corporate results, financial decisions have been taken with more understanding
  • data variations on the unified platform reduce room for error, therefore increasing trustfulness
Regular help from them ensures effective operation and quick improvements. Vena's support staff has been a lifesaver for me because to their fast replies, educational demos and customized setup help. This complete cycle support helps one to adopt the platform.
Its flawless data integration guarantes access to reliable information for decision making. Using Vena's real time collaboration and strong modeling tools makes exact financial planning easy. I have found the analytics tools to be really helpful in order to share insights with stakeholders.

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

Its automation and teamwork features let teams of any size handle challenging financial processes. I strongly suggest Vena if your business uses Excel for financial operations yet wants to reduce hand made inefficiencies. Conversely it might be more than required for smaller teams with less complicated needs.

Vena Feature Ratings

8.8
Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
7
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
8.6
Financial data consolidation
7
Journal entries and reports
10
Multi-currency management
9
Intercompany Eliminations
9
Minority Ownership
8
Local and consolidated reporting
8
Detailed Audit Trails
9
8.4
Financial Statement Reporting
7
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
8
Automated board and financial reporting
8
XBRL support for regulatory filing
10
8.0
Personalized dashboards
7
Color-coded scorecards
8
KPIs
8
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
8
Benchmarking with external data
7
9.0
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
8.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
8
9.0
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
8.8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
10
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
7
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8

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