Vena Excel

Vena brings the flexibility and familiarity of Microsoft Excel into a centralised FP&A environment. Finance teams can continue working with the Excel models, formulas and templates they know, while Vena provides the structure and control needed to manage planning processes across the business.

Rather than relying on disconnected spreadsheets, manual consolidation and multiple versions of the same file, Vena connects Excel to centrally managed financial and operational data. Users can work with controlled templates, enter and retrieve data, refresh reports and drill into supporting detail directly from Excel.

Behind the familiar spreadsheet interface, Vena Solutions provides workflow, security, audit trails and connections to source systems. The result is an Excel-native FP&A platform that preserves the way finance teams like to work while making their processes more connected, controlled and scalable.

Vena extends Excel with capabilities designed for finance teams working with shared, structured data. Using Vena’s Excel integration, users can pull data into spreadsheets from the Vena database, submit new or updated values and refresh reports without rebuilding them or manually importing the latest information.

Finance teams can also drill down from figures in Excel to understand the detail behind them, add supporting information and work with templates that are connected to Vena rather than maintained as independent files. This allows Excel reports and models to become reusable interfaces for working with centrally held data.

Vena also introduces controls around how these templates are used. Access can be managed by user or role, while audit history provides visibility into changes and submissions. Excel therefore retains its modelling and analytical flexibility, while Vena adds the data management and control needed to use those spreadsheets consistently across a wider finance function.