What is Vena used for?

Vena is corporate performance management software that keeps Microsoft Excel as the interface for budgeting, planning and consolidation. It is a good fit for finance teams that want to keep using Excel and moving from shared spreadsheets to managed planning.

How much does Vena cost?

Vena doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.

No. Vena is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Finance & Accounting category, open-source options include Actual Budget, Firefly III and Sure.

What are some alternatives to Vena?

Vena competes with Anaplan, Planful and Pigment.

Vena: features, pricing and alternatives

About Vena

Vena is a commercial planning and corporate performance management (CPM) product built around Excel. Finance teams that already build budgets and forecasts in spreadsheets can keep that familiar workflow while moving the data and process into a managed system.

Products in this space usually add controlled data, approval workflows, version history and reporting on top of spreadsheet models, and often cover budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation. The vendor website could not be read when this entry was written, so confirm the current module list and integrations on the Vena site.

Vena is proprietary software delivered as a hosted service and sold to finance departments, typically at mid-sized companies. It is most relevant for teams that want better control than shared spreadsheets without retraining everyone on a new planning interface.

Key features

Excel-based budgeting and planning
Forecasting with controlled data
Financial consolidation
Approval workflows
Reporting for finance teams

Good fit for

→Finance teams that want to keep using Excel
→Moving from shared spreadsheets to managed planning

Tags: cpm; excel; budgeting; financial-planning; forecasting; consolidation; fpa

Vena: questions and answers

What is Vena used for?: Vena is corporate performance management software that keeps Microsoft Excel as the interface for budgeting, planning and consolidation. It is a good fit for finance teams that want to keep using Excel and moving from shared spreadsheets to managed planning.
How much does Vena cost?: Vena doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
Is Vena open source?: No. Vena is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Finance & Accounting category, open-source options include Actual Budget, Firefly III and Sure.
What are some alternatives to Vena?: Vena competes with Anaplan, Planful and Pigment.