Case Study: Biola University achieves streamlined, Excel-based budgeting and a 2.5-year breakeven with Vena Solutions

Biola Loves Vena for Flexibility and Excel

Biola University, a private higher-education institution with about 6,200 students, faced an unwieldy Excel-based budgeting process: manual spreadsheet collection, version-control problems and slow planning cycles left finance teams chasing inaccurate numbers and rework across some 240 users.

Vena turned Excel into an enterprise solution by adding a centralized OLAP database, workflow, version control and pre-populated templates, enabling controlled template sharing and faster data entry. The finance group broke even on the investment in 2.5 years, saw quick user adoption with minimal training, and has extended Vena from budgeting to salary planning and forecasting while improving data integrity, collaboration and budget cycle time.

Biola University

Lori Lambert

Business Systems Manager