Vena

RATING:

4.6

(102)

About Vena

Reduce reporting, budgeting & close times by 50% with Vena—the only Complete Planning platform natively integrated with Microsoft 365. With a familiar Excel interface, AI-powered insights and a centralized database that connects and consolidates your data, you can improve productivity, free up time for analysis and plan for any scenario with confidence. Vena is perfect for finance and accounting teams looking for powerful, flexible and easy-to-use Excel-based FP&A software. Today, over 1,700 companies of all sizes use Vena's award-winning platform to streamline budgeting, reporting and analysis. Ready to see if Vena is a good match for your organization? Sign up for your free personalized demo today.

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Vena Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Vena

1 - 5 of 81 Reviews

Todd

201 - 500 employees

Used more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed May 2023

Recommendation from an early Vena adopter

User Profile

Jason

Verified reviewer

Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2023

Helpful and Functional Reports Creation Platform with Flexible Features.

Great financial data integration solution and tracing multiple project transactions and employees easy payment management system.

PROS

Vena offers the most responsive financial data management functions and creating professional financial data analytics and the Account Payable functions are incredible.

CONS

Quite simple platform on deployment and adjusting of its various financial data handling features was easy and nothing to dislike.

Todd

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Recommendation from an early Vena adopter

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.

PROS

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.

CONS

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.

Reason for choosing Vena

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.

Soumya

Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed August 2022

Cloud Based Excel Software

At ANet we completely re-modelled our reporting and we saved man power and time byinstalling vena.

PROS

Vena is a plug in for Excel, so the basic functionality for excel is all there. You don't need to learn a new software.

CONS

Integration can be improved. Sometimes integrations are complicated. It is not user friendly for Mac users.

Reason for choosing Vena

Cost and ease of use

Reasons for switching to Vena

Cloud Software

Lori

Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2017

Vena provides flexibility to set up budgets, reports and other processes as flexibly as we need.

We were able to streamline and centrally collect data for our budgeting process, which save considerable time for the budget administrator and other admin assistants across our university. We created Board-level reporting templates that can be re-used every year to report the results of the budget process with only changes made as necessary for the format of the current reporting year. We collect forecasting information from over 330 departments and compile all the information within one template to estimate the financial outcome for the fiscal year. We have been able to include data in planning of various kinds in ways that we weren't able to by just using Excel, resulting in better planning results. We can create new planning or reporting processes and have the flexibility to save additional data input that isn't part of our ERP data. Overall, we have saved time, improved processes, created one version of the data visible to all involved in the process and created efficiencies by being able to share data across processes.

PROS

Flexibility to set up whatever process we are working on the way it needs to be set up for our business requirements. Continual improvements being done on the Vena add-in and browser administration interface. Formatting Excel templates and reports exactly as needed. Ability to pull in data from all data versions for any reporting or template. Ability to save non-financial data to use in reporting or calculations. Ability to control user input as needed to better quality data. Prompt customer service responses. Great implementation team. Administrative control over data visible to individual users. Workflows to show status for process steps and email notifications when a workflow step is ready for input or review. Once learned, allows for creation of new processes to collect or report data.

CONS

Having to download each Excel file, but once downloaded, it's easy to select the data we want to see.