Vena vs. Planful | Complete FP&A Software

Why Choose Vena Over Planful?

The Vena Growth Engine has everything you need to plan your business for today and tomorrow. We’ve combined best-in-class technology and methodology—created by our team of Experts—with the world’s leading grid, Excel, to bring you Vena Complete Planning.

Reduce budget cycle times by up to 77%

Create and share reports and dashboards in minutes

Integrate ERP, GL, HRIS and CRM data to gain a single source of truth

Save time with workflows, templates, audit trails and version control

Nucleus Research Value Matrix Leader award for 2024

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How Vena Matches Up Against Planful

Vena reviews sourced from G2 October 2022

Top Reasons Why Companies Choose Vena Over Planful

We know the road isn’t linear, so we’ve created Vena Complete Planning to power your plan to grow with guided insights.

Growth Engine	Vena	Planful
Native Microsoft Excel UI Native Excel experience including all formatting and custom formulas
Collaboration & Sharing Collaborate, tag and comment directly in Excel
Central Database Unified solution that is centrally architected and designed to support minimal system maintenance
Integrations Native API integrations to industry standard systems (GL / ERP / CRM) and publicly available API integration to 100s of additional source systems
Process Management Includes flexible and visual workflows for all input, business rules, review, and reporting tasks across any process
Security and Compliance Single, integrated security model with auditability
Modeling Integrated and common data models for financial and operational forecasting, budgeting and reporting
Microsoft Power BI Embedded Natively built reporting and insights with industry leading Business Intelligence tool

Integrations

Bring data from your existing systems directly into Vena so you can stop worrying about the integrity of your data. And with the language of Excel built directly into Vena, all of your data will stay synchronized and fluid, no matter where it’s coming from.

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Workflows

Don’t change the way you work. All Vena workflows are synchronized with Excel so you can automate key processes, eliminate bottlenecks, maintain accountability and meet your deadlines.

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Security and Compliance

From user permissions and secure data transfers to AES 256-bit encryption for customer data keys and more, our CPM software uses the best technologies and operational processes to keep your data safe and sound.

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Modeling

See your data from every angle with best-in-class modeling, AI-powered analysis and company-wide Business Intelligence that empowers real-time data and collaboration capabilities.

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Collaboration

Turn your departments into collaborative business planning partners with the power of Vena and a native Excel interface. Share reports and dashboards, collaborate on templates, add instructions for tasks and more.

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Central Database

With our CPM software, all of your data lives in one place. Work from a single source of truth and never worry about accuracy again by viewing all of your data in Excel first, including imported data from external databases.

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Reporting and Analytics

Build reports in minutes—and automatically distribute them to stakeholders in seconds. And leverage our embedded Power BI to create beautiful dashboards and level up your analysis capabilities.

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Why Choose Vena Over Planful?

How Vena Matches Up Against Planful

Top Reasons Why Companies Choose Vena Over Planful

Integrations

Workflows

Security and Compliance

Modeling

Collaboration

Central Database

Reporting and Analytics

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