3 Common Office of Finance Challenges Solved by OneStream — Episode 16

If your finance systems feel more like a liability than a superpower, you’re not imagining it. In this episode of CPM Customer Success, Andy Smetana breaks down the three kryptonite weaknesses holding modern finance teams back—and explains how OneStream helps eliminate them. From disconnected point solutions to mounting technical debt and inflexible legacy systems, Andy shows why these challenges persist and how a unified CPM platform enables finance teams to operate faster, smarter, and with far greater agility.

Episode Summary

Andy explores the most common structural issues embedded in traditional finance architectures. He explains how multiple point solutions create unnecessary complexity and inefficiency, why technical debt accumulates over time in heavily customized environments, and how rigid systems limit a finance team’s ability to adapt as the business evolves. The episode then introduces OneStream as a unified financial platform designed to address these weaknesses directly—consolidating finance processes, reducing long-term maintenance burden, and delivering flexibility through extensible dimensionality. The result is a finance organization equipped to move beyond firefighting and toward strategic leadership.

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What You’ll Learn

• The three biggest weaknesses undermining today’s finance systems

• Why disconnected point solutions slow teams down and increase risk

• How technical debt builds up—and how OneStream helps eliminate it

• Why flexibility is critical for modern finance organizations

• How OneStream empowers finance teams to operate as a strategic force

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