It's a reliable tool for creating and managing financial budgets. It's reliable with cash flows management.

I like how this tool is reliable for financial planning,budgeting and forecasting.It's simple to prepare custom financial reports reports with Vena.This tool is reliable with bank account reconciliation.

I lack anything that I can complain since this tool meets all my needs and expectations.

Vena has allowed us to have more complex, customized reporting. We can easily set permissions and restrictions to provide appropriate access to users across the entire company. Overall, our experience with Vena has been great and excited to continue to develop the additional features that Vena offers.

There is a lot to like about Vena. We have created several customized reports for our organization and plan to use Vena for our monthly variance analysis and annual budget process. The ability to create dynamic reports and manage our budgets/forecasts in one system while allowing end-user comments will save our team a ton of time and effort. The software is powerful, and the implementation team has been able to come up with solutions to all of our requests. The end-user interface is intuitive and easy to use, even for those users who don't typically work with excel.

The reports and templates can take up to 1-2 minutes to open, which can be frustrating when you want to pull a number or send a report quickly. The GL data load also takes 20-25 minutes to refresh. So if we post entries to our GL and want to capture them in our Vena reports, we have to manually kick off a refresh and wait 25 minutes to run the new reports. Just a couple of minor inconveniences for an overall great product.

The biggest improvement i have noticed is efficiency

it's ability to consolidate data and create comparisons over historical periods.

Automatically updating information to reflect re-time postings in accounts- without conflict with other reports being run

We deployed Vena in 2020 as an ERP extension to our legacy system. Vena empowered sales metrics on the front end, financial project management in the middle, and financial reporting at the job level on the back end. We deployed a second "cube" data warehouse after the initial launch for financial reporting. Each deployment has worked as prescribed and brought extraordinary value to our construction company.

Vena has delivered huge value for us in a flexible package that can grow with our business effectively and efficiently. Vena let us keep our existing financial system and our customer Excel quoting apps. And built a reporting system on the back of Excel which everyone already knows. The road to value was fairly straightforward for us.

Vena is a toolbox of powerful opportunities. It is not an out-of-the-box accounting system. So you have to know exactly what you want out of Vena before deploying it. But this is true of any data warehouse. Knowing how data is to be extracted and presented requires upfront commitment and execution. Time spent in the planning phase will pay off 10X in the execution phase.

It's a straightforward tool that allows me to perform multiple tasks in one panel, it has effective formulas, allowing me to perform qualitative and quantitative analyzes with greater precision. In addition, when delivering these reports, I can reflect them in graphics that are easy to understand for others while still respecting the presentation’s professionalism. Another feature I like and have improved is the panel that can be personalized in the most used choices to organize it better.

Vana is a software that allows to carry out tasks either financial or accounting in a customized way by means of calculation sheets and templates very similar to the established Excel tool, except that in this opportunity offers a greater number of options that conform to the specific requirements required by the current administrative systems of the enterprises. With this program, automated reports can be made enabling the preparation of managerial plans, with a high level of protection that will enable you to function without fear of filtering such data. It adapts very well to different industries and enables archives to be imported and exported quickly

The monthly cost of the tool is very high relative to other similar ones, but of course, it should be remembered that it is a tool targeted at medium and large businesses, so that the price for large organizations can be manageable.

- Flexibility of the tool to build your own universe of workflows and reports- Excel-based- Sense of community created by the Vena marketing team

- Rocky integration with our accounting system (needed external help)

Our Financial Planning and Analysis team picked Vena from many other tools. The reason for zeroing on this tool, is, it is an excel based tool. We have been doing all this work in excel since years. We have standardized the process and have fixed excel templates. However excel has certain limitations like version control, access control, audit trail etc. With Vena we overcame the limitations of excel while retaining the power, flexibility and ease of use of excel. We have many desperate IT systems some by choice and some by compulsion due to various acquisitions. We import the data from all these systems into vena database. Data is automatically consolidated and aggregated per our requirements for use in advanced management reports as well as ad hoc reports in vena. Vena offers workflow and approval management by project, department etc. Further one can drill up, drill down, slice and dice the data using vena. Variance analysis is a piece of cake in this tool. Vena customer service is good too.

There is a learning curve like any other tool. There is no drag and drop from a selection of columns, fields etc. However once you learn the tool, reporting becomes easier.

The features that were the most impactful for our implementation of Vena was was the automation as well as the audit control capabilities. We are now able to focus more time on value add analysis as opposed to manually putting reports together each time.

Building custom templates that are complex take a lot of time. There are nuances to build reports that can make the experience frustrating if the report breaks or is mapped incorrectly.

My experience has been good, this is because I can organize, manage or calculate from financial processes to accounting analysis if I so require, and it also has more advanced functions than the known tool.

what I like the most is that it has known capabilities and its monthly training for beginners is much less than others, but it is a functional and fast tool, it also has many templates

I do not feel that the tool is difficult, or that it is not organizationally functional

The experience has been amazing. The team that assisted with the implementation was great, the sales team was extremely helpful, and the after care has been phenomenal.

If you know Excel - you'll be able to master Vena! The ease of use is amazing and the possibilities are endless in how you use this tool.

There are very few cons with this tool. I would say that the implementation is intense but that's by design. No one wants to be implementing the tool as they go!!

What fascinates us most about this instrument is that Vena allows us to complete checklists/end-of-month checks. Each of the to-do's can be easily found on a single board/screen.

What fascinates us most about this instrument is that Vena allows us to complete checklists/end-of-month checks. Each of the to-do's can be easily found on a single board/screen.

Since we have used this product, we have not found a single flaw because the product we use is unique to our organization. As monthly reports now have the ability to provide department managers within a minute of the books closing

Overall, Vena is a good FP&A software. It's a good choice if your company mostly uses Excel for your FP&A reports.

I like the most about the drill down function in Vena. It allows you to view information on the transactional level.

I did not like Vena's task flow builder because it feel clunky. Additionally, the email settings need improvement because we are sending 50+ emails to each executive for the annual budget for review.

I don't have to learn SQL programming languages or wait around for my computer department to do something . I can manage everything myself.

Being a young company, they need more demonstrations, downloaded working files to build users skills.

very good experience so far and will likely improve as i become more accustomed to the software.

It is very easy to create any type of report you like in a very logical way and is flexible to changes in data which are easily implemented and understandable for non-tech users

initial implementation was time-consuming and took many hours to setup hierarchy and validate data

Vena is one of the best software for financial planning and reporting. I use this software to make budget reporting, data import/export, etc.

The tool is very impressive and easy to use. It offers fantastic features that help us to manage our finance and account data easily.

I felt that the tools is quite slow when we deal with large amount of data. Otherwise it's run smoothly.