Vena, the only Complete Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) platform powered by agentic AI and integrated with Microsoft 365, has been recognized as an Overall Leader in the 2025 Dresner Wisdom of Crowds® Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Market Study. The company secured top rankings in Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility models, a perfect customer recommendation score, and high value with low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Vena named Overall Leader in 2025 Dresner EPM Market Study.
Tops Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility models.
Earns perfect customer recommendation score and high value/TCO.
Excels in sales professionalism, reliability, and customization.
Integrates AI and Microsoft 365 for advanced FP&A solutions.
Builds on multiple 2025 industry recognitions for EPM leadership.
The 2025 Dresner Wisdom of Crowds® EPM Market Study, conducted by Dresner Advisory Services, evaluates vendors based on 33 criteria, including customer experience, product reliability, and value. Vena’s standout performance includes best-in-class ratings in sales professionalism, technology reliability, ease of upgrade, customization, technical support, and third-party integration. “This recognition by Dresner Advisory Services reflects our commitment to delivering powerful, intuitive planning solutions that drive agility and resilience for our customers,” said Hugh Cumming, Chief Technology Officer at Vena. “With our deep Microsoft integrations and AI-powered platform strategy, we’re proud to empower FP&A and operations teams with the tools they need to lead through change.”
Vena’s platform leverages Microsoft Azure OpenAI through Vena Copilot, a virtual FP&A partner that enhances planning with driver-based forecasting and predictive analytics, ensuring secure and accurate financial planning. The platform’s native Microsoft 365 integration streamlines financial and operational processes, offering advanced analytics and modeling for informed decision-making. “Vena showed high marks across the board, with key improvements for product, technical support, overall value, and integrity,” said Howard Dresner, Founder and Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services. “Ratings in our annual market assessment are driven solely from the voice of the customer, and we congratulate Vena on their excellent performance in this year's study.”
Vena’s 2025 Dresner recognition builds on a series of accolades:
Top two technological leader in QKS SPARK Cloud FP&A 2025 report.
Eight Outstanding/Excellent rankings in BPM Partners’ 2025–2026 Vendor Landscape Matrix.
55 top/leading rankings in BARC’s The Planning Survey 25.
Niche Player in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Close and Consolidation.
Challenger in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.
TrustRadius Top Rated Award for fifth consecutive year.
Vena’s cloud-based platform supports over 1,600 global companies, enhancing collaboration, scalability, and security. Its strengths in extended and integrated business planning enable organizations to navigate macroeconomic challenges effectively. The 2025 Dresner study notes ejected 89% of respondents rating EPM as critical or very important, highlighting a growing adoption trend, particularly among midsize and small organizations.
Vena’s leadership in the 2025 EPM Market Study reinforces its position as a trusted partner for finance teams, delivering high-value, low-TCO solutions that drive agility and resilience in a dynamic market environment.
Vena’s recognition as a leader in the 2025 Dresner Wisdom of Crowds® EPM Market Study underscores its pivotal role in advancing FP&A. By combining AI-driven insights with Microsoft 365 integration, Vena empowers finance and operations teams to make strategic decisions with clarity and speed, ensuring long-term success in enterprise performance management.
Vena is the only agentic AI-powered FP&A platform purpose-built to harness the full power of the Microsoft technology ecosystem for finance teams everywhere. Vena amplifies Microsoft's world-leading productivity tools, cloud technology and AI innovation to make FP&A, operational planning and adjacent strategic processes more flexible, efficient and intelligent. Thousands of the world’s leading companies rely on Vena to power their planning.
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