Case Study: Partners In Health achieves 93% faster budget updates with Vena Solutions

Vena Helps Partners in Health Update Budgets 93% Faster

Partners in Health is a global nonprofit delivering healthcare in 10 developing countries with about 150 budget contributors working in remote, resource-constrained communities. Finance teams relied on manual, Excel-based budgeting—emailing spreadsheets, reconciling versions and taking up to a month to roll out budget updates—making agile forecasting and timely resource allocation very difficult.

Vena provided an Excel-friendly planning platform with integrations to source systems (e.g., Serenic, Power BI), nightly automated data transfers and offline capability, so users could adopt it quickly and always work with current data. The result: budget updates are 93% faster (consolidations cut from 1.5 days to about one hour and updates now take 1–2 days), improved accuracy and self-service, and greater visibility and engagement from program staff across the organization.

Partners In Health

Brendan Eger

Associate Director of Information Systems and Analytics