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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

After using the Vena Software now I can say it's the best accounting software where we can reconcile ending balances. Now we can easily identify discrepancies or time differences between the bank statement and financial records. With a centralized database, we can easily collect all the data from different departments and generate a collective report about company progress. That's why I totally recommended this software to all my corporate friends.

After using the Vena software now I can say that now I can take up my financial decision more effectively. with the help of this software, we can generate a report through with we get better financial insights. Now we can do data aggregation department-wise. With Vena Software my focus is financial planning or analysis through its various features like bank reconciliation, General ledger, and many more. It's very user-friendly with an interactive dashboard and collaboration management.

Nothing, I like each and every feature of Vena Accounting software offers features such as data consolidation, workflow automation, scenario modeling, and interactive dashboards which help me in taking the future decision after keeping in mind the current situation of our company. We can now collaborate with our stakeholders to access and review different scenarios.

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.

Vena 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.

The 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.

- 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)

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.

Vena 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.

Hard to teach others how to use this product

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.

Vena 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.

It automates complex business processes like financial budgeting and forecasting thus saving time.It helps to automate and eliminate tedious tasks.It is simple to carry out accounting and bookkeeping activities with Vena.It is simple to prepare financial statements with Vena.It is simple plan and manage cash flows with Vena.

Vena is an expensive financial planning and budgeting solution and I do suggest that it's pricing tiers should be lowered to attract more business prospects.

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.

Vena 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.

This tool has simplified key business programs and I totally like it. I have not observed low key indicators from the overall performance.

Always the best when solving accounting and financial problems. I get a good balance on my expenses at hand.

The features that make budgeting more easy and always accurate.It is in real time with notifications and keeping a good financial track on all expenses.

It sorted my accounting problems by far such that I don't really see anything as a flaw.

I have used Vena and have had an amazing experience especially when it comes to accountingIt is easy to use thanks to the Excel like interfaceThe software makes Budgeting and reporting easyIt's very resourceful

Not a single issue as everything from deployment to using the software had been smooth

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.

Interesting and different from other FPA in market.

Vena 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.

More upgrades can be done. The template takes 3 to 4 minutes to load. Bit expensive to maintain. Need to upgrade support.

Overall, very happy with the feature set of Vena and would recommend it to my friends in finance sector.

Vena's simple to use features enables us to prepare final accounts of our organization, right from basic accounting entries in individual ledger to preparing more complex balance sheet, Vena has got us covered extremely well.

The layout of the finance reportage can be improved further.

The thing I really adore about Vena is that it enables us to quickly build unique financial heads, such as company, supplier, etc., and completes financial transactions to produce general ledgers, which are then used to quickly compile the balance sheet.

To fully comprehend it, our staff need first hand training.

I honestly like that this application for billing and bookkeeping represents a significant advance in automation. I moved to utilising Vena from excel and word and I'm quite happy with the decision.

In the course of time, the a recurring payment model strategy is more costly.

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

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.

I highly recommend Vena for anyone who wants to reduce the efforts of sales and finance team. Vena is a clear winner for finance automation process.

The best about Vena is it make every sales person as a collection agent of their own sales with less documentation and tracking efforts. The color-coded reports indicate the loan disbursement status of our cases. We can easily export our sales report and performance record to the Google sheets for appraisal meetings and review meetings. We can track our incentives for each of our contribution.

Vena have many features of no use to my current role like Budgeting, Forecasting, etc. Download our reports in pdf is not straightforward.

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.

Improved budgeting and ad hoc reporting

The 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.

We 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.

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.

Still now I have not found anything least about the software.

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!

There 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.