Case Study: Cumming Corporation achieves 96% faster reporting and $55K annual savings with Vena Solutions

Building Better Budgets and Reporting with Excel

Cumming Corporation, an international project management and cost consulting firm, struggled with slow, error-prone budgeting and reporting: manual data collection from 31 global offices, insecure email-based template sharing, and a need to preserve their existing Excel workflows created long cycle times and risk. Maintaining Excel compatibility was a must that many competitors couldn’t offer.

By deploying Vena — a centralized database, workflow and dynamic report builder that works inside Excel with role-based security — Cumming automated data collection, tightened controls and avoided business disruption. The change cut reporting time from four weeks after month-end to the same business day (a 96% reduction), saved $55,000 in year one, improved data accuracy and freed finance staff for higher-value analysis.

Cumming Corporation

Dominic Di Bernardo

Chief Business Intelligence Officer