Case Study: Meridian Health achieves finance ownership and streamlined enterprise planning with Strata Decision Technology

Meridian Health - Customer Case Study

Meridian Health, a multi-entity health system in Neptune, NJ with $1 billion in revenue and about 8,000 employees, needed a dynamic enterprise performance management solution that would preserve finance’s control over modeling and accommodate complex, line-of-business planning. Facing heavy reliance on Microsoft Excel and a desire to avoid dependence on IT or outside consultants, Meridian selected Strata Decision Technology’s Axiom EPM to retain business ownership while modernizing planning and reporting.

Strata Decision Technology implemented Axiom EPM by migrating Meridian’s existing Excel models into a web-deployable platform backed by a single Microsoft SQL Server database, enabling centralized historical data (dollars, hours, statistics), scalable deployment, and finance-controlled security, versioning and workflow. The result: finance regained ownership and dramatically reduced IT reliance, increased contributor buy-in through intuitive planning models, and extended use into long-range and capital planning — outcomes Meridian cites as delivering strong usability and a low total cost of ownership.

Meridian Health

Steve Esposito

Sr. Manager of Budgets and Finance