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Planful and Vena
The same fields for both, from each vendor's own pages and the SEC, read on the dates shown. This table does not say which to choose: that depends on your requirements, and the guide's checklist is how to test them.
Published 29 October 2026; vendor pages read 29 October 2026.
| Field | Planful | Vena |
|---|---|---|
| Described as (our words) | Financial performance management software for planning, reporting and consolidation. Connectors are grouped by ERP, HR, CRM, warehouse and BI. | Planning, reporting and close software built around Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft tools. The menu lists FP&A, close, consolidation, reconciliation and tax provisioning. |
| In its own words | Financial Performance Management(planful.com, read 29 October 2026) | Connect financial and operational planning, decisioning and close with Vena’s platform, powered by cumulative business context, connected data and AI agents.(venasolutions.com, read 29 October 2026) |
| Lists on its site | Finance; Accounting; Marketing; Human Resources; Sales (planful.com) | Financial Planning & Analysis; Budgeting & Forecasting; Financial Close Management; Financial Consolidation; Account Reconciliation; Tax Provisioning (venasolutions.com) |
| Pricing | Not published on the pages we read, 29 October 2026. Ask for a quote. | Not published on the pages we read (including venasolutions.com pricing), 29 October 2026. Ask for a quote. |
| Integrations it names | No integrations taken from the pages we read. | Microsoft Business Central; Netsuite; Sage; Quickbooks; SAP; Salesforce; Workday; Snowflake (venasolutions.com integrations) |
| Public company | No company named “Planful” in the SEC's list of companies with tickers, read 29 October 2026. A listing elsewhere, or a parent company, is not checked here. | No company named “Vena” in the SEC's list of companies with tickers, read 29 October 2026. A listing elsewhere, or a parent company, is not checked here. |
| Guides it appears in | FP&A | Consolidation; FP&A |
Ask both of them
From the FP&A guide. Put the same questions to each vendor and compare the answers against your checklist.
- Load our chart of accounts and one month of our actuals before the demo, and show the variance report.
- Add a new cost centre and a new scenario while we watch. How long did that take?
- Show me who changed a driver last week and what it changed downstream.
- What happens to the model when our ERP adds a new account or entity?
- Which parts of this would our analyst build, and which would your services team build?
- Show the export of a model: what leaves with us if we cancel?
Sources
- Planful. planful.com/, read 29 October 2026.
- SEC EDGAR. sec.gov/
files/ company_tickers.json, read 29 October 2026. - Vena. venasolutions.com/, read 29 October 2026.
- Vena. venasolutions.com/
resources/ pricing, read 29 October 2026. - Vena. venasolutions.com/
product/ integrations, read 29 October 2026.