Case Study: Arizona Cardinals achieve commission processing cut from 10 days to 5 seconds with Vena Solutions

The Arizona Cardinals Turned 10 Days of Work into Five Seconds with Vena

The Arizona Cardinals, the NFL’s oldest franchise, relied heavily on Excel for account reconciliations, budgeting and reporting but struggled with manual processes and offline spreadsheets. Controller Christine Harms says previous tools (BlackLine and Adaptive Insights) didn’t solve their pain points, leaving the team copying data, emailing versions and spending up to 10 days producing commission statements.

In early 2019 the Cardinals implemented Vena, an Excel-front-end planning platform that integrated with their source systems (including Microsoft Dynamics GP), replaced the other tools and eliminated manual data entry. The change created a single source of truth, enabled headcount planning and advanced modeling, and cut commission statement delivery from 10 days to five seconds while providing on-demand trial balances, higher user adoption and more time for strategic finance work.

Arizona Cardinals

Christine Harms

Controller