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Vena Named a Top-Ranked Leader in BARC Planning Survey 26

The Planning Survey 26 is based on the world’s largest survey of planning software users conducted from November 2025 to February 2026, with 804 respondents, and analysis of 20 products. The survey is an invaluable tool for anyone looking to purchase, upgrade or replace a performance management system. For more information, visit https://barc.com/research/the-planning-survey.

The BARC Planning Survey 26 evaluates user feedback on 26 criteria (KPIs), such as Business Benefits, Project Success, and Customer Satisfaction. Vena was recognized in 21 leading positions and achieved 19 Top Ranks, in four different peer groups, highlighting industry-leading innovation and high rankings in Customer Satisfaction, Product Satisfaction, Ease of Use and Self-Service.

BARC The Planning Survey 26 badge with top ranks 19 and leading 21 in 4 peer groups

Key Highlights
Vena earned Top rankings for the following KPIs

BARC Customer Satisfaction badge with “Top-ranked” and The Planning Survey 26 text

Customer Satisfaction

“Vena is more flexible and finance‑friendly than many CPM tools. We selected it because Excel is already the finance standard, adoption was critical, and we needed adaptable models rather than rigid Templates.”

Project manager for planning from business department, Media/Publishing
100 - 2,500 employees
BARC Ease of Use Top-ranked badge with “The Planning Survey 26” and “Integrated Products for Planning and Financial Consolidation”

Ease of Use

“Excel front‑end is familiar to users and allows great flexibility in the design of reports and input templates. Combining the latest Excel functionality (which is improving all the time as Microsoft invests in Excel) with the robustness and security of saving data in a database is incredibly powerful. Ability to easily perform calculations and data transformations directly on the database. Ease of adding new data sources. Ability to automate almost everything.”

CIO, Consulting
100 - 2,500 employees
BARC self-service top-ranked badge for The Planning Survey 26 integrated products for planning and BI & analytics

Self-Service

“Vena’s biggest strength is that it uses Excel as the core modelling interface. This allows finance teams to build and maintain models using existing skills, enabling flexibility while still providing governance, workflow and control.”

Project manager for planning from business department, Media/Publishing
100 - 2,500 employees
BARC Product Satisfaction top-ranked badge for Planning Survey 26 Integrated Products for Planning and BI & Analytics

Product Satisfaction

“Excel front end, templates simple to use for budget holders, process workflow, one source of truth, manages our complicated staff-planning requirements”

Head of business department, Public sector
100 - 2,500 employees

Vena’s top-tier rankings in key performance indicators such as Price to Value, and Customer Satisfaction underscore its commitment to excellence and customer-centric innovation. The strong customer feedback in our survey reinforces Vena’s ability to deliver rapid, effective implementations while maintaining very high satisfaction levels.”

Dr. Christian Fuchs

Senior Analyst for Data & Analytics, BARC

Download the Vena highlights report to discover why Vena has been top-ranked in Product Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction, Ease of Use and Self-Service.