Influential Software

Vena – Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Solution Integrated with Excel

Services for Vena's CPM platform which combines deep FP&A planning capabilities, AI-powered reporting and analytics, flexible workflows and robust data governance with the productivity, collaboration, and innovation of your Microsoft applications - the complete planning platform with enterprise-level scalability

Features

• Integrated software for business planning across the whole organisation
• Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Consolidation and Financial Close
• Dashboard reporting with embedded Microsoft Power BI
• Workflow automation for key processes
• Consolidated reporting in real time
• Ease of use, purpose-built for Finance without expensive third-party support
• Native integration with Excel
• Data Mining
• Business Intelligence

Benefits

• Reduce cost of ownership in medium term
• Reduce time spent on planning
• Connect multiple data sources into a single source of truth
• Increase visibility over key financial reporting and planning processes
• Ensure data integrity and accurate reporting with real-time data refresh
• Significantly reduce lead times for key processes including monthly closedown
• Automate spreadsheet-based processes with full auditability and transparency
• Automate business-wide processes with Vena’s applicability across multiple use cases
• Lower your upfront investment and see value faster
• Secure financial data with advanced security features and role-based permissions

£13,200 an instance a year

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at andy.richardson@influentialsoftware.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

291251881998419

Contact

Andy Richardson
02078621122‬
andy.richardson@influentialsoftware.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: On a case by case basis, depending on scale/location/important of the operation, our technicians can ensure the appropriate hosting and software is implemented
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: As a VAR for Vena Solutions, we can organise for training to be provided to end users
• Training is tied to specific services: Yes
• Services the training service works with: Vena Solutions

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: As part of our cloud first focus, we often migrate clients from on-premise to Cloud or between Cloud providers.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: Yes
• List of supported services: Refer to the vendor – Vena Solutions

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Provided by the vendor – Vena Solutions

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Our UK-based support team can handle the hosting and software support for 3rd party software

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Maximum first response of 1 business day
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Via the support pages on our website or via the help feature embedded into our application.
• Web chat accessibility testing: Not Known
• Support levels: Standard Support Plan; Every customer has access to our Standard Support Plan for online and telephone support, including:; • 24/7 application monitoring; • Help desk phone and email support 24/5 Monday-Friday; • Unlimited case submissions; • Up to 3 Power Users to contact Vena support; • Maximum first response time of 1 business day; • Access to the Vena Customer Portal, online videos, FAQs, user guides, and a community help forum in our knowledge base; • A dedicated Customer Success Manager to help recommend products, services and processes to help you get the most out of Vena; ; Extended Support Plan; For after-hours support and accelerated response times, our ; Extended Support Plan combines all the services of our Standard Support Plan with:; • 24/5 Help Desk with on-call telephone support; • Maximum first response time of 2 hours for Severity A issues; Up to 20 Manager or Administrator users to contact Vena support.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Vena Solutions

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: 14/06/2023
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: N/A
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: SOC 1 & SOC 2 Type II audits

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Tackling economic inequality

  Tackling economic inequality

  By providing all of our software at the very lowest price to the public sector, we are ensuring that savings are available vs. list price that can be redistributed elsewhere into areas that help to tackle economic inequality

Pricing

• Price: £13,200 an instance a year
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at andy.richardson@influentialsoftware.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.