VENA: AN ENTERPRISE EXCEL PLATFORM With the addition of a centralized database and features including workflow, version control and auditability, Vena has turned Microsoft Excel into a truly enterprise-grade business solution – a company-wide platform – to automate and streamline processes across organizations. SPREADSHEETS: PERSISTANT, POWERFUL AND POPULAR With an estimated 500-million users worldwide, Excel has proven itself one of the most indispensable business tools across companies of all sizes and industries, and departments from finance to sales and marketing. Even with a wide range of more advanced tools available, Excel still dominates in popularity because of its flexibility and power – with over 400 built-in functions – and the familiarity and comfort levels it enjoys the world over. BEYOND FINANCE: AN ENTERPRISE-WIDE PLATFORM Through the addition of key enterprise-grade features, Vena has successfully extended Excel’s functionality to automate any spreadsheet-driven process throughout an organization. No matter what the function, Vena uses Excel to increase the efficiency of any process and the trust in the numbers and insights that come from them, including: "Excel’s array of formulas and functions are too numerous to list here, but it’s safe to assume that whatever kind of data you deal in— financial, mathematical, statistical, or other—Excel has got your back." PC World
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VENA: AN ENTERPRISE EXCEL PLATFORM
With the addition of a centralized database and features including workflow, version control and auditability, Vena has turned Microsoft Excel into a truly enterprise-grade business solution – a company-wide platform – to automate and streamline processes across organizations.
SPREADSHEETS: PERSISTANT, POWERFUL AND POPULAR
With an estimated 500-million users worldwide, Excel has proven itself one of the most indispensable business tools across companies of all sizes and industries, and departments from finance to sales and marketing. Even with a wide range of more advanced tools available, Excel still dominates in popularity because of its flexibility and power – with over 400 built-in functions – and the familiarity and comfort levels it enjoys the world over.
BEYOND FINANCE: AN ENTERPRISE-WIDE PLATFORM
Through the addition of key enterprise-grade features, Vena has successfully extended Excel’s functionality to automate any spreadsheet-driven process throughout an organization. No matter what the function, Vena uses Excel to increase the efficiency of any process and the trust in the numbers and insights that come from them, including:
"Excel’s array of formulas and functions are too numerous to list here, but it’s safe to assume that whatever kind of data you deal in—financial, mathematical, statistical, or other—Excel has got your back."
PC World
THE UNDERLYING CHALLENGE: OUTGROWING EXCEL
While powerful, flexible and ubiquitous, Excel does have its limitations. Most companies at one time or another find themselves outgrowing standalone spreadsheets, the most common symptoms involving risk, control and trust issues such as:
• inefficient, manually-intensive and error-prone processes;• a resulting lack confidence in the accuracy and integrity of their numbers and – even
worse – the decisions based on those numbers.
Excel – on its own – lacks important enterprise-grade features including workflow and, version control, automation and a detailed audit trail, just to name a few. It’s no surprise that, when companies start to outgrow Excel, they are tempted to adopt newer, typically more complex, expensive and rigid solutions like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
With the right solution, outgrowing Excel can be a thing of the past.
THE VENA SOLUTION: ENTERPRISE-GRADE EXCEL
Vena was founded on the central belief that Excel can and should continue to be an invaluable tool for businesses, especially as their needs grow and change. With a steadfast commitment to embracing – not replacing – Excel, Vena built a truly enterprise-class business-solution with features and benefits including:
• A Centralized Database: using Excel as the interface into a “single version of the truth”for enhanced data accuracy and integrity – and smarter, faster decisions as a result;
• Workflow: including version control, user-level permissions and business rules, and a dragand drop process designer for a truly collaborative and controlled environment;
• Detailed Audit Control: giving companies greater visibility and control over theirprocesses with a detailed log of every transaction and change made to data or aspreadsheet;
• Automation & Integration: automatically capturing data from a variety of databases, ERPsoftware and other data sources, virtually eliminating error-prone manual tasks.
• Cloud Delivery: for security, scalability and - with in-memory computing (IMC) – the highperformance required to quickly manage and analyze large volumes of data
This approach has clearly paid off, both for the company and our clients. We have enjoyed tremendous success with our “embrace Excel” approach because our clients now have a solution that gives them the scalability, trust and control they need, while letting their users stick with the software they know best.
Vena turns Microsoft Excel into an enterprise-class business solution with a centralized database and features including workflow, version control and a detailed audit trail. Now hundreds of leading brands get trusted numbers and insights – fast – while still using Excel. Vena is the fastest growing vendor in cloud corporate performance management (CPM), and the only one to embrace – not replace – Excelspreadsheets.
“For the experienced and uninitiated alike, Excel is a deep program with a variety of capabilities,”
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