Corporate Planner vs Vena

Corporate Planner is a corporate performance management platform for operational management, planning, analysis, and consolidation. It supports flexible financial planning, forecasting, trend calculations, and scenario analysis, with ad-hoc analysis and real-time reporting. Integrated financial planning connects profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow, and covers budgets, liquidity, and capital expenditure. Solution areas include sales, HR, risk, fixed assets, costs, consolidation, and management reporting. The maker lists more than 350 standard integrations that connect source systems to a central database, with upstream value changes updated automatically. Workflow-driven task management and automation are included, along with more than 300 built-in business functions. Users can work through web or Excel clients and customized dashboards on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. The software is available on-premise or in the cloud. Its cloud service runs on Microsoft Azure, with data hosted in Germany's Trusted Cloud or another EU country. Pricing is on request. The maker says its platform is certified to German audit standards IDW PS 880 and IDW RS FAIT 1 and 4.

Vena is a budgeting and financial planning platform available on web and Windows. Its listed capabilities include budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning, financial consolidation and forecast-versus-actuals tracking. The plan outlines distinguish between included services and tools. Professional includes the Vena Platform, a Customer Success Manager, standard support, a customer portal and Vena Copilot. Complete includes everything in Professional, along with Vena Insights, premium support, a sandbox environment and expert managed services. Neither plan has a published price; Vena says pricing is available on request. The listed facts identify the platform, its planning functions and the difference between the two packages, but do not specify further plan limits. Vena was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.