Fantastic company, even better product!
May 14, 2020

Fantastic company, even better product!

Jamie Killpack, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vena Solutions

When we first started exploring Vena, our initial goals were related to financial reporting and data access. Added FP&A. Vena addressed the difficulty the organization was having accessing data in its ERP. Not only that, but it addressed it is such a way that we had excellent user adoption. All of our users love having the ability to use Excel, and as Controller I loved the control Vena gave us in that Excel environment.
  • Simple to implement and took little resource commitment on the customer side.
  • Sales cycle was customer-friendly. Not a high-pressure pitch, but patient and understanding.
  • Version-control and auditing is superb.
  • Takes a minute to get used to the constructs of the report-building.
  • Need to keep developing integrations. We had to load flat files as there was not a connection for our ERP.
  • Faster report processing!
  • Less confusion - everyone on the same page.
Clearly a better fit for our company from a culture perspective. Adaptive sales team was super pushy and not a good fit for us. Also, the system would have LET us work in Excel, but that was not its main interface.
The support team was very responsive and knowledgeable. They were very easy to work with and worked hard to understand our needs and also to solve them. We felt very well supported, before, during and after implementation.

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

Vena 'Excels' at wrangling in challenging FP&A processes. Gives users the ability to enter data in a system they know well already. Gives management peace of mind with that process being in Excel.

Vena Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
9
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
10
Financial data consolidation
10
Journal entries and reports
9
Multi-currency management
9
Intercompany Eliminations
9
Minority Ownership
9
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
9
XBRL support for regulatory filing
Not Rated
Personalized dashboards
10
Color-coded scorecards
10
KPIs
10
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
10
Benchmarking with external data
10
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated