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Todd
201 - 500 employees
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed May 2023
Recommendation from an early Vena adopter
Jason
Verified reviewer
Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
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.
PROSVena offers the most responsive financial data management functions and creating professional financial data analytics and the Account Payable functions are incredible.
CONSQuite 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
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.
PROSVena 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.
CONSVena 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
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.
PROSVena is a plug in for Excel, so the basic functionality for excel is all there. You don't need to learn a new software.
CONSIntegration 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
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.
PROSFlexibility 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.
CONSHaving to download each Excel file, but once downloaded, it's easy to select the data we want to see.
Ankit
Verified reviewer
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2023
A Strong tool that can help to create the best reports in an organization
After we installed Vena in our organization the broad data management of the whole organization got completed a lot faster than before and it has lots of collaborating tools that even make it more time-saving and high potential software which gives great returns to our company.
PROSVena is a cloud-based platform that helps our business to track all their budgets, plans, and financial data in a single platform. The best part of Vena is that it can easily be integrated with MS Excel and even a user who doesn't have much information about Excel can work on it with huge data. It also helps to understand the overall performance of our organization and understand the market trends.
CONSThe worst part of working in Vena is its interface which is a little different to learn initially and getting used to its complex user interface takes a little time also the price of the software is on the higher side when it is compared to some other FP&A software available in the market.
Ta
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Great Product at a reasonable price
Beyond the finance and accounting departments, other teams, such as operations and sales, also benefit from Vena Solutions. They leverage the platform to access financial data, track performance against budgets, and align their activities with the overall financial goals of the organization. This cross-departmental usage fosters collaboration, transparency, and accountability throughout the organization.
PROSVena Solutions is being utilized across our entire organization, spanning multiple departments. Its primary application is within our finance and accounting departments, where it serves as a comprehensive financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software. Vena Solutions enables our teams to streamline various financial processes, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and consolidation. Within the finance department, Vena Solutions is employed to centralize and automate the budgeting and forecasting procedures. It offers a collaborative platform that allows different stakeholders to contribute their inputs and assumptions, which are then consolidated into a comprehensive financial plan. This streamlines the budgeting process, reduces manual errors, and enhances the accuracy of our financial projections.
CONSHard to teach others how to use this product
Lilian
Accounting, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Incredible,straightforward and powerful Financial Planning and Analysis Tool.
It is simple to create financial budgets and forecasts with Vena.It streamlines financial planning and analysis process thus we can plan our financial future accurately with Vena.It helps to automate tasks and workflows and also simplifying business processes.It makes it simple to generate custom financial statement reports.
CONSVena has wide variety of features and functionality that are simple to customize,configure and navigate so as to meet our objectives hence I lack anything major setback to highlight.
Felicia
Verified reviewer
Consumer Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2023
Outstanding sales performance reporting product
The financial reporting based on data analytics has helped us to set achievable objectives. Team collaboration has been enhanced which helps teams to focus on potential business gains and avoid bottlenecks. The recorded growth has indicated that Vena is the most efficient business planning tools that accelerate achievement of set goals.
PROSVena provides best budgeting tools that helps each department to set realistic goals on projects. It tracks performance of sales and marketing programs from the company websites. It helps us to focus on more productive business programs and manage resources effectively. The planning system has mitigated risks with real-time insights.
CONSThis tool has simplified key business programs and I totally like it. I have not observed low key indicators from the overall performance.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Best tools for Sales Performance and Management Platfrom
Solid analytics, reporting features, and Advanced analytics capabilities, such as predictive analytics or advanced data visualizations, are benefits to gaining deeper insights into sales performance.
PROSComprehensive Sales Performance Management (SPM) solution designed to help organizations streamline and optimize. Future allows for the equitable distribution of targets and territories, ensuring sales teams have clear objectives and aligned incentives.
CONSI don't have any corn. SPM set of features and capabilities to streamline sales processes and optimize sales performance. Overall flexibility, user-friendly interface, and focus on data accuracy and security make it a valuable choice. And I recommended it.
Gitesh
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2023
Vena FPA
Interesting and different from other FPA in market.
PROSVena gives you freedom and is most easy and efficient app to make a template. Easiest way to share an information or sheet to department. All things like budget, revenue status and different planning can be managed by any small or large organization.
CONSMore upgrades can be done. The template takes 3 to 4 minutes to load. Bit expensive to maintain. Need to upgrade support.
Sheldon
Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
Vena review
Overall we have had a very good experience with Vena to date
PROSVena does a great job with alternative hierarchies, rollups, visual displays are well laid out
CONSThe drilldown functionality does not seem to support visually displaying where the hyperlinks exist and so you need to try several intersections to see where drillable cells reside. Not sure if a config issue though.
Mukesh
Chemicals, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Keeping track of your accounts activities.
My personal account track that expenses and plan a budget for my projects.I get to keep track of my projects and work on my schedule well with Vena.
PROSKeeps a good track of your day to day expenses .Business process tracking and get to have a budget on every project in place
CONSI use it for simple accounting at personal level and so far no regrets.
Anubhav
Financial Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Organization oriented financial instrument.
Loved the overall performance. It can positively impact our organization based on its unique features.
PROSVena impressed us with its capabilities for ensuring adherence to tax and accounting requirements. It can generate tax reports, figure out taxes owed, and make submitting tax returns easier, lowering the possibility of mistakes and fines. For seamless data flow and process automation, it also connects with other corporate systems including customer relationship management (CRM) software and inventory management systems.
CONSThere were some problems during installation which made us contact the support team.
Megan
Insurance, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Vena for Finance Department
Vena has greatly decreased our monthly-close time and made journal entries, financial reporting, and reconciliations much more efficient and easy to complete.
CONSThere is a learning curve and it can take time to set up reports/etc. on the front end.
Mallikarjuna
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Efficient and Insightful
Vena streamlines financial analysis, but implementation costs may be a concern for budget-conscious organizations
PROSVena provide a huge selection of features for data consolidation, financial modelling and budgeting, it offers a complete set of tools to support various analysis tasks
CONSVena offers integration capabilities, but there might be restrictions on the systems and applications it can support.
Gerald
Oil & Energy, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
The been very instrumental in sales planning
We have been able to achieve our planning needs with Vena
PROSThe product's capability to analyze complex scenarios
CONSI am very happy with the product features, looking foward to a new version
Jo Ann
Insurance, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
VENA-ease
The ease of use of Vena by using Excel format.
CONSMapping budget input can be cumbersome but we understand why it has to be done a certain way.
Merylin
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2022
Business management tool
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.
PROSwhat 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
CONSI do not feel that the tool is difficult, or that it is not organizationally functional
María
Verified reviewer
Banking, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2022
My overall and remarkable insight with Vena
It's a reliable tool for creating and managing financial budgets. It's reliable with cash flows management.
PROSI 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.
CONSI lack anything that I can complain since this tool meets all my needs and expectations.
Andrews
Verified reviewer
Telecommunications, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2022
Come an intelligent solution for your company and making reports and dashboards
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.
PROSWhat 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.
CONSSince 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
Jhanvi
Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Superb Performance for Financial Reporting
Vena is one of the best software for financial planning and reporting. I use this software to make budget reporting, data import/export, etc.
PROSThe tool is very impressive and easy to use. It offers fantastic features that help us to manage our finance and account data easily.
CONSI felt that the tools is quite slow when we deal with large amount of data. Otherwise it's run smoothly.
Whitney
Hospitality, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2017
Powerful, User Friendly Budgeting, Reporting, and Analysis Tool
Improved budgeting and ad hoc reporting
PROSThe Excel interface is my favorite part about Vena. Everyone within our business is familiar with and comfortable using Excel. Therefore, when we started using Vena for budgets, our contributors did not have to learn a completely new interface. However, Vena offers so much more than just Excel. I love how Vena shows you who made changes to the file and what the previous values in the file were. It helps hold people accountable. It is also very easy to make powerful reports using Vena.
CONSWe built a very complicated template which took a long time to open. However, Vena was very helpful in helping us optimize our template and improve the performance drastically.
Arjun
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Business Process Automation Software
The software helps in task management as well as activity tracking. It also includes data visualization and workflow management software. We can also use strategic planning software.
CONSStill now I have not found anything least about the software.
Garlock
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2018
VENA SOLUTIONS IS AWESOME!
I particularly like how easily Vena integrates with my existing software programs (Microsoft Excel based), and the support provided to our business has been second to none!
CONSThere were a few glitches during set-up and installation and there is a bit of a learning curve as we customized the program to fit our particular requirements, however customer support made life as easy as possible.