Case Study: Santa Clara Valley Water District reduces budgeting cycle and improves long-term planning with Vena Solutions

How this historic District Water Supplier reduced their budgeting cycle with Vena

Since 1929, the Santa Clara Valley Water District has managed integrated water resources—supplying clean water, flood protection and stream stewardship for 1.9 million residents—overseeing dams, treatment plants, recharge ponds and extensive flood-control infrastructure. The district needed to shorten a lengthy budgeting cycle, eliminate manual work, and strengthen 15-year planning and forecasting for capital, revenue, inter‑fund transfers, debt and cash reserves, all while integrating smoothly with its existing PeopleSoft financial system.

After evaluating 11 vendors, the district chose Vena because it kept users in Excel, minimized change management and delivered a compelling demo and support team. Vena integrated with PeopleSoft and helped automate budgeting and approval workflows, reducing cycle time and improving the accuracy and efficiency of long‑term forecasts for capital, debt and cash reserves.

Santa Clara Valley Water District