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Vena Solutions Vena connects people, existing systems and data to power finance-led business planning and real time reporting using the world’s leading spreadsheet platform.

Add up to more with Vena. Book a demo: https://bit.ly/fbk-demo Vena turns Excel into an enterprise-class business solution with a centralized database, workflow, detailed audit trail and more. With Vena, hundreds of leading global brands now get trusted numbers and insights – fast – without sacrificing their favorite spreadsheet software. Our customers use Vena for corporate performance management

(CPM) applications including budgeting, financial close management and reporting, and automating other spreadsheet-driven processes beyond Finance. Vena is the fastest growing cloud CPM vendor, and the only one to embrace – not replace – Excel spreadsheets.

What an incredible week at the Gartner® Finance Symposium/Xpo™ in National Harbor. It was great connecting with finance ...
06/02/2026

What an incredible week at the Gartner® Finance Symposium/Xpo™ in National Harbor. It was great connecting with finance leaders navigating the shift from planning to performance in a rapidly changing environment.​

Melissa Howatson’s session, “From Planning to Performance — The Next Operating Model for Finance,” sparked important discussions around AI investment, governance and what it takes to move from insight to on-time ex*****on across the business.​

We also had some great conversations at the Vena Booth around how finance teams are orchestrated planning, decisioning and close inside the Microsoft ecosystem to operate with greater speed, agility and confidence.​

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to connect with the Vena team.​
Gartner and Finance Symposium/Xpo are a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

06/01/2026

The gap between insight and on-time ex*****on is critical for performance. Orchestrated performance bridges that gap. ​
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At Excelerate, Andrew Stanbridge, SVP of Product at Vena, laid out the four prerequisites for orchestrated performance:planning that happens where work does, orchestration that brings people, processes, data and AI together, a governed data foundation that finance, business and IT can trust and write back to, and a context-aware intelligence layer that knows your entities, your structure and your business logic.​
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These four things don't work in isolation. On-time ex*****on depends on all of them being in place. Vena is built around exactly that architecture.​
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Watch the full session on demand at the link in comments.

05/29/2026

London Luton Airport (LLA) needed a platform flexible enough to model security staffing by passenger count, plan for a potential terminal expansion, and rebuild forecasts on the fly when airline data changes.​
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Chris Collett, Head of FP&A, went far and wide in the market before replacing several disconnected systems with Vena. ​
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See how LLA orchestrates planning, forecasting, workforce planning, and operational scenarios in a governed, Excel-native platform. Link in comments.

05/28/2026

For most finance professionals, a significant part of the job has always been production work: building models, producing decks, running variances and writing commentary. Those responsibilities are not disappearing, but AI is dramatically reducing the time required to complete them.​
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What changes next is where finance teams spend their energy. As production becomes faster, the expectation shifts toward judgment, decisioning and on-time ex*****on. Finance needs to move closer to the business, guide decisions in real time and help organizations respond faster to change with greater confidence.​
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The teams that recognize this shift early will be the ones that create the most impact, not by producing more output, but by helping the business make better decisions and act on them faster.​
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Watch the full clip and all Excelerate sessions, now available on demand. Link in comments

05/26/2026

Finance teams have spent years managing the complexity of budgets, forecasts and data exports, but the gap between insight and ex*****on keeps widening. Our new Planning Agent addresses the constraints Finance teams hit every day.​
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Purpose-built for the office of finance and designed to work seamlessly across the Microsoft tools finance, business analysts, and IT already use, Vena Planning Agent leverages governed CubeFLEX data to create agentic driver-based budgets and forecasting through natural language prompts, directly in Excel. No template rebuilds, no parallel systems, and no migration out of the environment your teams already operate in.​
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Teams that have already made the shift have cut their budgeting cycles by over 60%. ​
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Learn more about how Planning Agent can reduce decision latency for your business.​Link in comments.

05/22/2026

Finance teams have never been more capable. They have more data, faster systems and better AI. And yet, decisions are stalling.​

Vena CFO Melissa Howatson calls it decision latency: the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. It is not an insight problem, it's an ex*****on problem that is costing your organization real revenue.​

If decision latency is slowing your organization down, watch the full session to learn how to close the gap.​

All on-demand sessions from Excelerate Finance Fest are now available online, watch now.

Excelerate Finance Fest reminded us why we do this every year. It brought together some of the sharpest minds in the ind...
05/22/2026

Excelerate Finance Fest reminded us why we do this every year.

It brought together some of the sharpest minds in the industry, and the value of this event extends well beyond the three days we spend together.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, engaged, and made this year exceptional. We look forward to continuing the momentum next year.

Save the date: May 11-13, 2027

What was your biggest takeaway from this year? Drop it below. 👇

Vena is heading to the USA Gartner® Finance Symposium/Xpo™, and we're bringing the conversation finance leaders are acti...
05/21/2026

Vena is heading to the USA Gartner® Finance Symposium/Xpo™, and we're bringing the conversation finance leaders are actively working through right now: how to move from aligned plans to orchestrated ex*****on.​

Vena CFO Melissa Howatson takes the stage on May 29th at 11:15 AM ET for her session "From Aligned Plans to Orchestrated Enterprise Ex*****on". With 59% of CFOs planning to increase AI spend by 10% or more in 2026, the pressure is shifting from AI adoption to confident ex*****on. Melissa will share how orchestrating governed data, insights, and agentic AI into your planning processes bridges the gap between alignment and ex*****on. If you're navigating where AI investment actually moves the needle, this is the session to catch.​

Be sure to stop by Booth 626 to connect with the Vena team. See a live demo, ask your questions, and hear how finance, business analytics, and IT teams are putting orchestrated performance into practice today, whether you're early in your AI journey or looking to get more out of your existing investments.​

May 27–29 | National Harbor, MD​

See you there.​

Gartner and Finance Symposium/Xpo are a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.

05/20/2026

The best Vena partners don't just implement technology. Many have led finance and planning teams themselves.​

Across our ecosystem are former finance leaders, CPM specialists, and trusted advisors who understand the realities of planning, reporting, and decision-making because they’ve lived it firsthand.​

That experience is what helps our customers move faster, scale smarter, and turn planning into their strategic advantage.​

We asked Vena team members to describe our partners in one word.

Their answers say a lot about the expertise and impact our partner community brings to customers every day.

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