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OneStream vs. Pigment with Dave Collins | Ep. 83

Written by Nova Advisory | Fri, Nov 7, 2025

CFOs and FP&A leaders are flooded with shiny “modern planning” tools—but which ones actually scale with control? In this episode, Andy Smetana welcomes back Dave Collins, Director of Strategic Alliances at OneStream, to compare OneStream vs. Pigment in plain finance terms.

They dig into the pitfalls finance teams report with lightweight, cube-based planning tools—fragile models, technical debt, and “too many cooks” changing calculations—and contrast that with OneStream’s unified platform, featuring governed workflows, data quality checks, and extensible dimensionality that lets you plan and consolidate in one application.

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What You’ll Learn

  • Key differences between OneStream and Pigment in practical finance terms

  • Common pitfalls of cube-based planning and fragile modeling structures

  • How OneStream’s unified platform enables governance and scalability

  • Why consolidation is more than simple aggregation

  • What true control looks like when planning, reporting, and AI all live together 

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