Empowering Finance with Speed Accuracy and Control Our Vena Experience
November 14, 2025

Empowering Finance with Speed Accuracy and Control Our Vena Experience

Kensuke Moriyama | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vena

Pros

  • Vena leverages Excel as its front-end interface, allowing users to build and maintain complex financial models using familiar formulas and formatting
  • Vena excels at organizing recurring financial processes like month-end close, budgeting cycles, and forecast updates.

Cons

  • While Vena offers solid reporting tools, users often find the dashboard customization options somewhat rigid.
  • When handling complex models or large volumes of data, Vena can experience slow load times or delayed calculations.
  • By leveraging Vena’s Excel-native interface and cloud-based architecture, we’ve reduced our reliance on IT for report generation and system maintenance.
  • Finance users can build and modify models independently, freeing up IT teams to focus on infrastructure and innovation.
  • -This shift has improved agility and reduced turnaround time for ad hoc reporting needs.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Vena again?

No

Vena Feature Ratings

7.8
Long-term financial planning
10
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
1
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
7.0
Financial data consolidation
2
Journal entries and reports
10
Multi-currency management
7
Intercompany Eliminations
8
Minority Ownership
8
Local and consolidated reporting
5
Detailed Audit Trails
9
7.2
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
3
Automated board and financial reporting
4
XBRL support for regulatory filing
9
5.0
Personalized dashboards
1
Color-coded scorecards
6
KPIs
7
Cost and profitability analysis
2
Key Performance Indicator setting
7
Benchmarking with external data
7
4.0
Flat file integration
5
Excel data integration
5
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
2
1.0
Pixel Perfect reports
1
Customizable dashboards
1
Report Formatting Templates
1
7.7
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
7
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Report Output and Scheduling ()
Not Rated
1.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
1
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
1
Predictive Analytics
1
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
2
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
5.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
2

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