Case Study: Vanguard University achieves student-level profitability insights with Vena Solutions

Higher Learning Uncovers Profitability at Student Unit Level

Vanguard University, a private institution with about 30 undergraduate programs and $43M in revenue, faced competing stakeholder demands and an accreditation mandate to tie its annual budget more closely to its strategic plan. Its budget-to-actual reporting was manual and time-intensive, limiting timely, data-driven decision making across departments.

By implementing Vena’s Excel-based planning platform with seamless integration to the university’s ERP, Vanguard automated reporting, preserved data integrity and made monthly, quarterly and annual reports easy to create and personalize. Adoption among non-finance users accelerated, leadership gained granular student-level profitability insights, and the university reduced reporting time and errors while improving budget-strategy alignment and readiness for future planning needs.

Vanguard University

Jeremy Moser

Chief Financial Officer