Vena Solutions FAQs

    • Who is Vena Solutions best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

      Vena provides software primarily for the office of finance, operations departments, and business leaders who are looking to plan to grow their business in a new way. The company has over 1200 customers from across the world in sectors including energy, financial services, professional sports team, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, hotel and lodging, technology, retail and food services.

    • How does Vena Solutions benefit them?

      Vena provides finance and executive teams with trusted numbers and insights - fast - while using their existing Excel spreadsheets. Vena streamlines critical finance processes - from budgeting to regulatory reporting - and ensures data accuracy and integrity with features including a centralized database, workflow, audit trail and version control. Vena provides the security and control you need with the software you know and love.

    • How technical do users need to be to use Vena Solutions's software?

      The vast majority of users - from CFOs and finance VPs to FP&A directors, financial analysts and operations departments - already know how to use Vena because they already know how to use Excel. For administrators, Vena provides all the training needed to set up templates, workflows, user permissions and more, often in a matter of days.

    • What makes Vena Solutions a leader in this space?

      Vena has been recognized by media, analysts, awards and clients as a market leader for embracing, not replacing, Excel in its solution and - even more importantly - for its industry-leading customer satisfaction.

    • Who are Vena Solutions's biggest competitors (3-5 companies)?

      Adaptive Insights, Planful, Prophix, OneStream, Centage:Budget Maestro

    • How/why is Vena Solutions better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Vena Solutions is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

      Vena appreciates why Excel remains essential to almost every business professional on the planet. It’s familiar, flexible and powerful. Where other CPM vendors try to replace Excel with proprietary software or Excel plugins, Vena is the only CPM vendor to embrace – not replace – the full power of Excel. Vena leverages the familiarity and flexibility of an Excel interface and combines it with the Vena Growth Engine, the technology and methodology that powers your plans and guides your journey to growth.

    • What kind of features can customers expect Vena Solutions to release in the near future? And longer term?

      Vena releases new features and enhancements on a quarterly basis, with a focus on continually enhancing the user experience while providing a solution that meets customers requirements today and into the future. Our solution is focused on providing value to companies planning processes (finance-led, extended and beyond) and investing in our technology to ensure we stay competitive when it comes to emerging technology and the consumerization of B2B software.

    • Which popular or common software does Vena Solutions integrate with?

      Vena integrates with any source system - ERP, GL, CRM systems and other sources of financial and non-financial data. The company has formal integration partnerships with NetSuite, Salesforce, FinancialForce, Intuit Quickbooks Online, Sage Intacct and Microsoft Power BI.

    • Software pricing can often be complex. If it's pretty straightforward, list tiers, pricing (per year, seat, etc) and limits for Vena Solutions. If it's not simple, use broad estimates or ranges for typical setups.

      Vena is offered on an annual subscription basis, either as a full platform for all finance processes, or as software solutions for individual processes like budgeting or financial close management and/or industry specific solutions.

    • Does Vena Solutions offer a trial or free download available?

      See Vena in action with a free hands-on Preview. https://www.venasolutions.com/preview-vena-sign-up
      With your free, interactive preview we’ll show you how Vena leverages the flexibility of Microsoft Excel—the world’s leading spreadsheet platform—within a powerful, intuitive and easy-to-use business planning ecosystem. We’ll also show you how working with up-to-date numbers can simplify data storytelling and support informed decision making.

    • Does Vena Solutions offer any kind of training/education for their product?

      Vena offers self-paced training and facilitator product training.
      Our self-paced introductory product training course covers everything you need to know to get started with Vena. With over 15+ modules and a personalized Vena training environment. For an interactive experience, we offer facilitator-led product training sessions that are remotely taught by our expert Vena training specialists.

    • Describe the implementation process and timeline for Vena Solutions software.

      Vena's implementation process includes a prescriptive methodology that is focused on best practices, low time to value and high user adoption. The implementation methodology includes 5 phases from Plan/Assess, Design, Test, Deliver, Project Go Live. Where every step of the way user participation is encouraged to ensure success.

    • What are the Vena Solutions support options? List all.

      Vena Solutions offers three comprehensive support plans, so you can choose the one that is right for you. https://www.venasolutions.com/contact-support
      Standard, Premium and Designated.

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