FP&A platform earns 100% recommendation score, emphasizing commitment to collaborative customer relationships
TORONTO – September 25, 2025 – Vena, the only Complete FP&A platform powered by agentic AI and purpose-built to amplify the Microsoft technology ecosystem, today confirmed it has received Best-in-Class recognitions in EPM for sales professionalism, overall value, reliability of technology, and ease of upgrade/migration to new versions, as well as a “high value/low TCO” in the 2025 Dresner Advisory Services Industry Excellence Awards. Based on Vena’s performance in the 2025 Dresner Wisdom of Crowds® Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Market Study, including a perfect recommendation score, this recognition underscores Vena’s leadership in the enterprise performance management industry.
“Dresner is deeply familiar with our space, and their awards are given soley on the input of customers. Earning a Best-in-Class designation means we are succeeding in delivering high-value, future-focused and technologically advanced solutions for financial professionals around the world,” said Hugh Cumming, CTO of Vena. “We’re especially honored to be ranked an overall leader for vendor credibility and customer experience, which showcases why we earned a 100% recommendation score.”
Dresner’s 2025 Industry Excellence Awards recognize vendors who achieved leadership in either the 2025 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence or EPM Market Studies. For each Market Study, Dresner assesses vendors’ performance across two models:
- Customer Experience, focusing on customer work with a specific solution and their sentiments about the product and technology
- Vendor Credibility, focusing on vendor-customer relationships and perceived value
In the EPM Market Study, Vena was an Overall Leader in both the Vendor Credibility Model and the Customer Experience Model.
“Our research provides a clear, end-user perspective of the current priorities, deployment trends and future intentions in these key markets,” said Howard Dresner, Founder and Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory. “The reports contain an unbiased assessment of industry suppliers, with vendors rated solely on the input of end users. We congratulate Vena on receiving top marks from their customers in this year’s EPM study.”
Fiscal year 2026 has seen Vena continue to solidify its leadership as a Complete FP&A platform, thanks to the release of its industry-leading AI agents and its focus on solving today’s most pressing challenges. Over 2,000 customers now trust Vena to help them achieve more in the face of increasingly complex and dynamic business conditions.
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