Case Study: State University achieves unified CPM and cuts employee update time from 3.5 hours to 5 minutes with OneStream Software

State University - Customer Case Study

A public university in the Southeast — part of a major academic health center and a Top 10 public research institution with 28 departments and over 1,400 faculty — faced a bloated, unsupported Hyperion environment. Multiple Essbase planning apps, pervasive “shadow” Excel spreadsheets, duplicated processes and performance issues limited departmental flexibility and threatened data integrity, prompting a need to modernize their CPM stack.

The university replaced Hyperion with OneStream to unify consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning using Extensible Dimensionality® and Relational Blending. This single platform eliminated disparate apps, improved clinical and operational reporting, and reduced administration time dramatically (employee-level updates cut from 3.5 hours to five minutes; system upgrades from days to about one hour). With MarketPlace solutions like Metadata Manager, the finance team now has faster, more accurate budgets and reporting and a scalable foundation for future expansion.

State University