Vena Integrates Microsoft PowerPoint Into Platform

Business planning software provider Vena recently introduced Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint, a native integration with Microsoft 365 that enables strategic finance and operations teams to provide insightful financial presentations.

Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint combines Vena’s reporting and analytics capabilities with the advanced productivity and collaboration features of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft PowerPoint’s familiar interface to help finance teams build presentations that turn data into impactful stories while simultaneously streamlining their flow of work.

“With Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint, finance and operations professionals can build beautiful, audience-ready presentations in minutes, collaborate with stakeholders in real time, interact with live financial and operational data and refresh for the latest results—all without ever having to leave PowerPoint,” the company said. “This boosts personal effectiveness and operational efficiency while improving data storytelling, enabling them to better communicate powerful financial insights that drive improved decision making using their most up-to-date data.”

With Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint, finance and operations professionals can:

Connect charts, tables, textual narratives, and dashboards from a built-in library of their existing financial and operational reports to any slide while maintaining their calculations, corporate branding, data visualizations, and standard financial formatting.
Interact with financial and operational data in real time and instantly refresh presentations with the latest results and Microsoft Excel formatting through a live integration with their Vena data model and reports.
Work with stakeholders on building and perfecting impactful, data-driven narratives in real time from anywhere on any device through Vena’s native integration with Microsoft 365.

“With these capabilities, finance and operations teams can dramatically reduce the time spent creating and updating financial presentations. They can collaborate in real time with anyone in their organization to build impactful, data-driven narratives. Additionally, teams can present with confidence using the latest numbers, and improve team alignment and decision making with enhanced data storytelling leveraging the presentation tool they already know and use,” Vena said.

For more information, visit Vena’s website.