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# OneStream User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.8/5
- Total reviews: 84

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.6/5
- Customer support: 4.7/5
- Value for money: 4.6/5
- Functionality: 4.7/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 66 reviews (79%)
- 4 stars: 16 reviews (19%)
- 3 stars: 2 reviews (2%)
- 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Most mentioned pros

- What I liked about OneStream was there was an excess of features and reports that made accounting and reporting much simpler.
- Very good performance for processing financial data.
- Consolidating our financial reports across multiple departments became seamless, saving hours of manual work.

### Most mentioned cons

- Not so user friendly or to keep in mind simple process options to proceed.
- A few pain points with OneStream are related to documentation.
- The excel add-in gets the job done for sure, but is not the most user friendly tool.

## OneStream customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 84 (page 1).

### OneStream implementation review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Larry M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

OmeStream is the updated product that most of the others wish they were. Some of the legacy competitors have stopped innovating. Here's an integrated product that's taken off from where they left off.

#### Cons

OneStream does take professional implementation.

#### Reasons for switching to OneStream

Hyperion isn't innovating and Anaplan is too constrictive.

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### OneStream software - Conversion From Hyperion HFM/FDM/Planning

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Keith C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We were forced to make a platform decision by ORACLE, timing was not good from an operational standpoint. We are 6 months in to an 11 month project to go live replacing our Hyperion environment.We are extremely pleased so far with the quality of the product, the quality and speed of support and relatively low overhead to support. All projects this size have pain involved with change management, but thankfully, the software we chose is helping ease that pain, not enhance it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

-Ease and simplicity of software architecture implementation and design -One Product for multiple purposes. -Long term expansion capability on one platform -Win10 app access -There is no comparison with the amount of time, effort and money it took to support and maintain the Hyperion environment. Install took less than 2 hrs. Comparable Hyperion install took weeks to get working

#### Cons

- Dashboarding can be simplified a bit - powerful, but a bit cumbersome to get started and understand

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

Customer references and testimonials. Ease of use, quality of support. Long term growth possibilities to expand the use of the software on one platform from the marketplace Professional low pressure sales team, product sells itself

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### OneStream XF

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Tim K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We are utilizing OneStream for its consolidation functionality. We are also working to implement the people planning solution.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

The ability to have a unified system. OneStream's ability to keep multiple solutions on one platform.

#### Cons

The amount of clicks to configure a lot of items.

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### The next generation of CPM software

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Stephen T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Primarily driving consistency and accuracy across the company on financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting and eliminating all the shortfalls of maintaining those processes in MS Excel. Future vision to implement Account Reconciliations, People Planning, Capital Planning, Sales Planning and Task Manager.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The software really is simple to use, user adoption is very fast and for one price you get for multiple products (consolidations, planning/forecasting, account recs, capital planning, etc...)

#### Cons

I have not found anything currently that I do not like about the software.

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

Prophix seemed ok but not alot of big customers so not sure it would be around long term. Hyperion seems to have fallen behind in their product development plus the cost of infrastructure to run it would have been prohibitive. Neither Prophix or Hyperion had account reconciliations so would have need to purchased another software package which would need integration and additional cost.

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### One-year Post go-live

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Patrick P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: September 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Very happy with our choice and would not change decision if could go back and choose different vendor

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

OneStream has wide array of functionalities, all on one platform, one software language at one price; powerful corporate performance management platform has helped us automated many tasks across multiple areas in accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and analytics.

#### Cons

Like other platforms must invest time and resources to get through learning curve

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

OneStream has multiple functionalities and capabilities which addressed multiple business needs/areas that other vendor products could not.

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### OneStream is ahead of the competition

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Gijs v.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The ease of use is very good. With minimal training I was able to setup the system (with help of consultants of course).

#### Cons

Some features are a direct copy of HFM, which is not strange because it's the same creators.

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

Ease of use, good demo's, good reference, nice look and feel.

#### Reasons for switching to OneStream

HFM was out of date and end of life

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### One stream - Market leader

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Manish A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We are solving planning and close solution.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Dashboard and reporting with Blending feature.

#### Cons

People planning and customization .Also, few market place solution

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### Onestream is the future of CPM

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: James K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Great and responsive service, with lots of offerings that you can add to increase the ROI (task manager, reconciliations) at no extra cost. They are consistently improving the product, not resting on the fact that they already have an outstanding product.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I really like how easy the software is to use. The customization options are endless, the organization of formulas on members makes it easy to know why a number is the way it is.

#### Cons

Onestream does a good job of documenting the software, although sometimes the features offered aren’t fully explained, especially in dashboarding. But it’s a small complaint.

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### One Version of the Truth...

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Andy J.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

It's been a great experience with a great product.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Instead of having to cobble together data from multiple systems with different dimensionality and have to reconcile - I can perform all my Finance functions under the OneStream solution. This saves me tons of time with data syncronization, reconciliation, and dual maintenance. It's a huge time saver.

#### Cons

It's very Microsoft platform centric, so you have to be comfortable with that technology baseline. If you want to go cloud - you're going on Azure.

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### Admin

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: David B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Amazing experience. We rolled more than 5 different apps into one

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Ease of use for our global finance team.

#### Cons

Excel plugin is a bit clunky and interface refreshing is tough for admins while troubleshooting

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

Because it’s just plain better

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### OneStream Platform Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Michael G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The platform approach for a unified financial service offering.

#### Cons

It is a relatively new offering on the market (about 10 years old) and best practices are still being developed. Managing change across an organization to make the switch can be an obstacle for some organizations, accepting change.

#### Reasons for switching to OneStream

Modern finance platform, best in class product, ease of ownership.

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### Began as a user, now I'm an implementer.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Jacqueline M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

At Prince we implemented quite a few OneStream solutions. The great thing about this product is that it is all on one Platform. You don't have to purchase multiple software licenses because this software does it all. I loved working with the software so much that I left my position at Prince to pursue a career in OneStream software implementation. I went to my first OneStream conference and definitely drank the Kool-Aid. Everything about this company and product made me want to get more and more involved. I love how OneStream is constantly working on improvements the better meet their customers' needs.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

This software completely revolutionized the Consolidation and Financial Reporting process. When I first started working at Prince, they were finishing up the OneStream implementation. The timing couldn't have been better for me. When I reviewed the prior months excel workbook used for consolidations and currency translations, it was such a nightmare. I had to open up to 10 workbooks just for the values to show up. Each of those workbooks took what felt like forever to open and would often freeze up my entire computer.

#### Cons

There were times that we would provide data to various members of the organization. Often times they would want to pivot on the detail provided. It would have been great if the row dimension type would show up on the same row as the column headers to make for easier pivoting and filtering. Other than that, this software was a God Send.

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### A complete software suite to help drive your organization!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Rob G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

As a user for just under two years, the overall experience I've had with the software and the team has been exceptional. And this extends to the user community as well -- it was amazing the number of times I heard "welcome to the family!" during the user-conference, but I definitely felt that way! While focused primarily on consolidations and part profitability, we have big plans to further expand OneStream to allow stronger analytics in guiding us towards future growth and profitability.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The software is very intuitive and easy-to-use, but the ability to expand into different organizational "needs" is facilitated by a company that is willing to listen to the needs of their customers, and respond quickly to put those needs into production! From basic consolidations, tracking of capital expenditures & headcount, and strategic planning modules (among many others!), OneStream XF gives users the ability to address their immediate needs while giving them capabilities for future expansion.

#### Cons

As more of an "end user" on the financial side (not I.T.), the only issue I faced was the speed of consolidating data. But note that this is based on a previous version of the software, with the newest release (based on the Splash! user-conference in May 2019) having addressed some of this issue. Another example of the company's willingness to listen and respond!

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### OneStream application review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kishore Kumar S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

All the functions are really a new experience and to the trend to market this is the best tool with lots of information deep inside available for One Stream admin and users.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Forms, cube views, origin, fx rates, dashboard.

#### Cons

Not so user friendly or to keep in mind simple process options to proceed.

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### OneStream XF

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Nathan W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall, OneStream has provided a significant benefit to our company. It's a simple, dynamic tool that provides a good end-user experience. It has helped us to speed up our close process and provides great analytical tools for users.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

From an administrator point of view, the software is extremely flexible and for the most part does not require computer language skills. Almost any report can be created and shown in different ways. The software is extremely dynamic and provides a positive end-user experience if built out correctly.

#### Cons

There have been a few minor bugs(Account Reconciliation Manager). While the end-user experience is great for most users, it is difficult to implement on a large scale (100+ users, frequent turnover) due to training. Every application is different, so general training documents are not always applicable. Pulling activity instead of balances is possible, but seems to have caused a few headaches as it's not common.

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### system with many possibilities and great flexibility

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Philip L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We are an expanding company and Onestream helps in streamlining the reporting process.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

System has many possibilities to meet reporting needs.

#### Cons

Due to its many possibilities and flexibility it is also a bit complex when you need to troubleshoot.

#### Reasons for switching to OneStream

Previous system could not handle the growth of the organization.

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### Next Step in Finance!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ruben C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

OneStream is a solution for more then just one part of the finance department, it really optimises the total department.

#### Cons

I think it should be HTML based for a better use on mobile devices.

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### OneStream is AWESOME!!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Phillip O.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Building Materials
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Consolidations. Intercompany is a breeze compared to Hyperion.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

All your data is in one place and you add programs on to the initial installation. For instance, setup OneStream for Actuals and Consolidations and adding Account Reconciliation is just add an app from the store. No separate set of licenses or copying data from one program to another.

#### Cons

More training offered. I'm not able to find much of any classes offered locally for reporting or calculations. Most of the training has to be done at headquarters and I haven't found a reporting training class anywhere.

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

I wasn't here when the decision was made, but I think it was mainly the ability to add apps onto the existing installation instead of having to pay for a separate set of licenses and maintain multiple databases.

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### OneStream FP&A Experience

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Divya P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Can be customized as per client/ customer requirement

#### Cons

Too much coding is required some time for simple dashboards.

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### One-Stop-Shop for Finance Organizations

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Gidon A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OneStream brings all the information to the finance users. It makes it easier for them to do their jobs, be it close the books, prepare the budget, forecast or analyze the data. OneStream does it all!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Flexibility - This software can do everything you can think of.

#### Cons

The standard documentation is not detailed enough for advanced users.

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

Flexibility, features, support and vision.

#### Reasons for switching to OneStream

Ability to deliver a better solution

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### Owner

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Andreas N.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

It is been a great journey so far

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The platform concept that enables companies to have multiple solutions in a single app.

#### Cons

The required initial setup is very important.

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

platform

#### Reasons for switching to OneStream

Too many apps, so service in the long run.

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### The future is OneStream

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Christopher W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I love the forward-looking approach that OneStream has taken with the software. Rather than standing pat on what is already a solid foundation, the team is constantly seeking out the next challenge they can tackle with enhancements.

#### Cons

I found there was a steep learning curve on the implementation work I performed with OneStream. There is not a lot of widely-available information on how to develop in the tool beyond the company's own documentation. A broader community would make it easier for tech-savvy users to better support their own implementations.

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### OneStream XF Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Salman K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We are currently using OneStream for consolidation, budgeting/forecasting, cash flows, account reconciliations, and external/internal reporting.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The ability to report off of, budget, forecast, analyze, and reconcile to the same set of base data is valuable for streamlining our processes.

#### Cons

Cube view and report building has a steep learning curve for finance individuals.

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### OS for APC

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kevin J.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

GREAT FOR MONTHLY CLOSE AND CREATING ADHOC REPORTS

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

FLEXIBILITY, EASE OF USE, LOTS OF TIE OUTS / DOUBLE CHECKS BUILT IN

#### Cons

SOMETIMES TOO MANY OPTIONS - CAN BE CONFUSING TO MAKE CHANGES

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### One stop shop

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Karrie S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We are currently migrating over from a Hyperion environment with 3 HFM applications and 2 planning applications - we have gone live with our new fiscal year plan and will be live with actuals in August for our new fiscal year to close the books.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Consolations, planning , account rec etc all with one source of metadata management

#### Cons

Planning side could use some more enhancements

#### Reasons for choosing OneStream

One stop shop / no data migration from one tool to another

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