Three Office of Finance Challenges Solved by OneStream — Episode 3

If your finance team is buried under disconnected systems, rising technical debt, and rigid reporting structures, the problem isn’t effort—it’s architecture. In this episode, Andy Smetana dives into the transformative power of OneStream in addressing three critical challenges facing the Office of Finance: the inefficiency of managing multiple point solutions, the growing burden of technical debt, and the lack of flexibility in financial reporting. Andy explains how OneStream’s unified CPM platform streamlines financial operations, lowers total cost of ownership, and enables finance teams to adapt as the business evolves.

Episode Summary

Andy breaks down the three most common pain points holding finance organizations back today. He explores how fragmented CPM environments create complexity and inefficiency, why technical debt accumulates in heavily customized legacy systems, and how inflexible architectures limit an organization’s ability to respond to change. Through practical examples, Andy explains how OneStream’s single-platform approach eliminates integration friction, reduces ongoing maintenance effort, and delivers flexibility through extensible dimensionality—allowing finance teams to stay operationally relevant without rebuilding their systems.

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What You’ll Learn

• Why multiple point solutions create inefficiency and unnecessary complexity

• How technical debt builds up in legacy CPM environments—and how to reduce it

• What makes OneStream’s unified platform different from traditional CPM tools

• How extensible dimensionality enables flexible, future-ready financial reporting

• How OneStream lowers total cost of ownership while improving finance agility

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