The Vena Queen tells all!
Updated March 20, 2017

The Vena Queen tells all!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Vena Solutions

Vena is being used to aggregate data from business lines to be used in reporting to regulators. It is being managed by the reporting department with end users across the company. It systematically aggregates data previously manually aggregated and provides a vehicle for analysis as well as workflow, approval tracking, audit trails and controls.
  • As it uses Excel, it is easy for end users and allows you to use all the functionality Excel has to offer - but makes it better.
  • It provides controls and auditability of data collection.
  • With Vena, users stay in Excel when creating templates and reports. This means that all the flexibility that our employees relied on Excel for in the past is available through Vena, with the added benefit of version control, configurable security settings, and audit trails to enhance accountability.
  • We specifically use the onsite version of Vena and most, if not all of our challenges have been corrected in the VenaCloud.
  • Due to the size of our organization, significant time is spent on workflow maintenance as team members move departments.
  • With Vena, we have significantly streamlined our collaborative report review and submission process. This enables us to spend more time on other projects and initiatives.
  • SharePoint
Vena provides a drastically more robust data collection process by using the power of Excel, attaching workflows and audit trails all surrounded by security allowing us to have more users and provides the flexibility to target what a user can see and do. The workflow component allows for greater collaboration between team members spread across the country and world.
Vena is specifically good in situations where a lot of data needs to be collected from various members across an organization and controls and auditability are needed.

Vena Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
Not Rated
Forecasting
Not Rated
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
Not Rated
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
10
Detailed Audit Trails
10
Financial Statement Reporting
10
Management Reporting
10
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
10
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
Not Rated
Flat file integration
Not Rated
Excel data integration
Not Rated
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated

Using Vena Solutions

680 - Business lines and reporting teams
4 - 1.5 Business support and 1.5 technical support
  • SEC Reporting
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Other Reporting