ADAC chose Vena because it allows them to keep their preferred Microsoft solutions, while gaining much-needed FP&A functionality. Vena’s tight integration with Microsoft Excel and Dynamics makes it easy for DeWispelaere and her team to capture, analyze, and report on data in real time – from a central, controlled, and familiar environment. The following factors also impacted ADAC’s decision: Quick user adoption. Between Vena’s easy-to-use interface and seasoned training team, it didn’t take long for ADAC’s budget owners to become Vena experts. They also don’t need to ask IT for help every time they wanted to run a report. And contributors have virtually no learning curve, as Vena’s templates look exactly like the spreadsheets they used previously. Audit trails. Vena gives ADAC’s budget owners complete visibility into their entire budgeting and month-end close processes. With Vena, they can track every change and see the full story behind every number. If they discover an error, they can easily revert to an earlier version of the document. Faster approvals. ADAC can easily create workflows to automate previously manual submission, review and approval tasks. For example, when an approver accepts or declines a submission, the next person in the workflow will automatically receive an alert. This keeps the entire process flowing smoothly and helps ADAC shorten its budget cycle dramatically. Smarter, more accurate planning. For planning and analysis, Vena allows ADAC’s budget owners to compare their budget numbers to actuals almost in real time – without copying data into Excel or performing a complicated query in their ERP. The insights that come from such variance analyses lead to smarter, more accurate planning, and faster course correction when needed. Improved control over the budget process. Vena gives ADAC’s finance department better visibility into the completion of budget milestones with its workflow designer and status tracking capabilities. Vena automatically notifies budget owners of deadlines, task completions and progress updates, so they can always see the status of the budget at a glance. Greater accuracy. ADAC’s budget owners can easily populate templates with real-time data from Vena’s centralized database. This makes ADAC’s reports and budgets more dynamic and accurate, giving everyone a single source of the truth. Increased mobility. Since Vena and Office 365 are cloud-based, ADAC’s users can approve submissions, distribute reports and more – anytime, anywhere, on any device. Security and controls. Vena’s cloud architecture provides the same level of security required for banking and even military applications. ADAC has full control over who accesses what data – at the department, role, or individual user level. When an employee logs in, they only see the data that is relevant to them or their department.
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