Benefit Case Study: Vena drives value as Cumming Group scales 13x

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Following Cumming Group’s 2014 Vena deployment, Nucleus Research’s 2019 study documented a 255 percent ROI with a six-month payback period. A decade later, the organization continues to realize sustained value despite massive organizational growth and an ERP, HCM, and CRM transition. Despite revenue growing 13x and organizational size expanding 15x through organic growth and over two dozen acquisitions, the company maintained its lean FP&A headcount without additions, demonstrating exceptional long-term operational efficiency. Benefits include reducing the monthly close from five weeks to just two days and cutting the annual budgeting cycle by 75 percent from 12 weeks to 3 weeks. The platform’s familiar Excel interface accelerated adoption across 20+ business leaders, who saw their budget input time decrease from 60 hours over four weeks to just 20 hours over two weeks, even as contributor numbers doubled. Vena has expanded beyond its original budgeting and close functions to support rolling forecasts, workforce planning, and scenario modeling across thousands of active projects, enabling the finance team to shift focus from manual data compilation to strategic analysis that supports informed decision-making during rapid growth and complex integrations.

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