Planful or Vena? Let’s take a look.

Vena connects a complex database with Excel to add some power to your dynamic planning. But finance and accounting teams need more. Planful delivers with a full-featured financial performance management platform that lets you keep using Excel while adding prebuilt financial capabilities, flexible reporting, an intuitive experience, and so much more.

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Do your best work in a platform built for finance and accounting.

It’s time for a purpose-built solution

We all love Excel for its ubiquity and freeform capabilities. But as your organization grows, managing finance and accounting spreadsheets, uncovering errors, and collaborating over email takes more and more time.

While Vena adds a database to support Excel, it doesn’t add many features, templates, or workflows specifically designed for today’s finance and accounting teams. This is your chance to modernize the Office of the CFO, integrate financial processes, centralize data, and add collaboration capabilities so you can plan rapidly, close faster, and report accurately. You deserve more than just Excel-plus!

“Before, a lot of the data was pulled together by Finance and collated into spreadsheets. Now everyone else does their input and we can focus more on analyzing those numbers rather than just trying to maintain all of the spreadsheets.”

Ashlee-Louise George,Bickford’s Group

Planful AI is purpose-built for finance. Proven in production since 2021.

Every answer links directly to your data, with the logic visible at every step.

Instant, explainable answers.

Analyst surfaces the "why" behind variances in plain language, with every response tied to your underlying data.

Early risk detection.

Signals flags anomalies and outliers before they reach reporting.

Forecasts built from your history.

Planner generates projections from your data and seasonality patterns, with scenario modeling on demand.

Consistent answers across the team.

Everyone from FP&A to business partners sees the same numbers with the same supporting logic.

A complete platform for finance and accounting

Planful gives you a complete platform to plan rapidly, close faster, and report accurately. From rolling forecasts to workforce planning, close and consolidations to annual planning, Planful helps you find the data you need, insights you demand, and answers necessary to grow your business.

Plan, budget, and forecast your way–with automated data collection, powerful modeling, and less manual effort.

Empower everyone in the business to work where they’re comfortable, in spreadsheets or with Excel syntax in Planful.

Guide the business forward by putting finance-first collaboration at the heart of every decision, all on a finance-owned platform.

Features and flexibility, out of the box

Planful gives you the option to stay in Excel while still moving to a modern, cloud-based platform. It also provides powerful tools, templates, and workflows built for finance and accounting but customizable for your business.

Flexible reporting options and automated report delivery give you more time to focus on growth.

Go beyond dynamic planning with solutions for structured planning, cash flow forecasting, scenario analysis, and more.

Collaborate more closely with the business, elevate their financial IQ, and make better decisions together

Experience the Planful difference

Stay in control

Work on the same, up-to-date data, with every edit tracked automatically so you don’t lose anything in emails, chats, or shared files.

Manifest confidence

Know your data is always current, the math is sound, and the insights are accurate so you can work without doubt.

Overcome errors

Use AI to constantly search for errors and anomalies so you never have to worry about broken references or hidden formula typos.

Modernize how you work

A modern, cloud-based solution built for the Office of the CFO, with 200+ prebuilt integrations, security, financial workflows, and more.

Collaborate with context

Collaborate and comment in context, with every conversation tracked for reference so you always have the story behind the numbers.

Scale your efforts

Use the same secure, scalable solution across finance, accounting, and the business so you can focus on growth without worrying about complexity.

Planful vs. Vena? Your choice is as easy as 1-2-3!

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Planful automates away the manual effort to keep everyone informed and give you more time to work with the business.

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Planful modernizes how you work to forecast more accurately, respond with agility, and act with determination.

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Planful helps you guide the business with confidence, adapt to a changing world, and closely collaborate to stay in sync.