Vena, the Complete Planning platform loved by finance and trusted by business, announced the integration of Vena with Microsoft Power BI Embedded as part of its Insights and Analysis solution.
Vena with Power BI Embedded enriches Vena’s Insights and Analysis solution with advanced data analytics and AI-powered business insights embedded directly in Vena Complete Planning, powering FP&A, extended planning and beyond. This makes it the only Complete Planning platform with out-of-the-box, user-guided business intelligence for all. Companies can easily leverage up-to-the-minute analytics, share actionable, AI-driven insights at scale, improve communication and collaboration with interactive data visualizations and dashboards, power confident, connected decision making, and empower strategic planning and business agility at every level of their organization —all within the Vena they know and love.
“Vena with Power BI Embedded ensures our customers have all the tools and capabilities they need to drive strategic business planning and better business outcomes,” said Hugh Cumming, Chief Technology Officer at Vena. “Not only can organizations leverage advanced data and analytics capabilities such as natural language querying, predictive modeling and decomposition trees to drive agile decision making, they can also benefit from the latest advances in Microsoft’s Power BI cloud and AI capabilities in an embedded, no-code solution with out-of-the-box functionality.”
For over a decade, Vena Solutions has collaborated with Microsoft to create the only native Microsoft Excel, cloud-based CPM platform to empower the strategic office of finance—including Microsoft 365 and Power BI. Vena automates key planning processes and connects financial and operational data from across the business. This enables organizations to source meaningful insights through timely analysis, and to drive agile planning decisions that deliver business value in the pursuit of sustained growth. Vena with Power BI Embedded enhances Vena’s Insights and Analysis solution as the next evolution of Vena’s ongoing strategic collaboration with Microsoft, which continues to transform how businesses Plan To Grow™.
“Vena Complete Planning’s integration with Power BI combines modeling capabilities with embedded AI delivered by a business intelligence cloud in a Complete Planning platform anyone can use,” said Arun Ulagaratchagan, Corporate Vice President, Intelligence Platform at Microsoft Corp. “Uncovering deep insights at scale to maximize business performance is more efficient and easier.”