Services
Vena Solutions practices rigorous implementation methodologies that make us a natural choice for organizations seeking results and value from their investment. Our certified and highly experienced consultants guide you through the process – quickly and effectively getting your organization up and running.
The Vena Solutions Commitment
- High quality solutions delivered at the right pace with reduced risk that optimize your ROI
- Experienced, skilled resources that leverage a full breadth of proven capabilities, infrastructure and processes
- Defined delivery channels to meet each customer’s unique needs
- Tools, processes and prescribed delivery methodologies to achieve efficient delivery
Vena 5 Implementation
The Vena 5 Consulting team focuses on creating optimized financial processes, and implementing best-practice spreadsheet designs in an environment that promotes user collaboration, and enhances data governance and workflow management.Vena Solution’s consultants use a proven set of comprehensive methodologies specifically designed for the Corporate Performance Management market we cover. Our consulting methodology proposes a concise phased approach to enable both creative and structured thinking, planning and implementation.
Phase I: General Process Discovery
Phase II: Application-specific Design Session
Phase III: Product Implementation & Testing
Phase IV: Post- Implementation Support & Coaching
IBM Cognos FSR™ Implementation
Installation
- Software installation
- Application business models build and loaded
- Data configuration
- Reporting views defined
- Roles and security
- Menu navigation elements configured
Training
- Basic IBM Cognos FSR™ concepts
- Starting a new report
- Designing reports
- Retrieving and adjusting data
- Checklists
- Workflow and auditing features
- Working with variables
- Working with accounts
- Output options
- Administration
- Troubleshooting
Report Design and Configuration
- Reporting specifications
- Sections
- Objects
- Data sources
- Rounding requirements
- Define workflow chains for document review
- Define workflow user/security permissions
- Define variables and validation rules
- Define automatic note and TOC numbering
Coaching
- Quick-start the development of IBM Cognos FSR™ reports, workflow and checklists
- Giving advice to keep your reporting on schedule at every important milestone
- Provide ongoing subject matter expertise
Data Integration and Data Warehousing
Vena Solutions provides consulting services to help our clients integrate with their source systems to populate our application-specific data models for both Vena 5 and IBM Cognos FSR™. Our software solutions empower the business user to maintain their charts of accounts and data sets with a rich set of graphical user interfaces that can be used to:
- View and adjust data and attributes for accounts in a hierarchy
- Manage dimensional data and maintain account structures
- Create calculated values derived from other existing account values
- Perform adjusting journal entries
- Perform automatic account rounding
