Highlights from OneStream Connect London — April 2024

In April, our team had the pleasure of attending OneStream Connect London, joining finance and technology leaders to explore the latest innovations shaping the future of Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

The event reinforced how organisations are accelerating their move towards unified, extensible platforms to simplify complexity across finance. A clear theme throughout the sessions was the growing importance of integrated planning, faster close cycles, and leveraging automation to free finance teams to focus on insight rather than process.

We were particularly encouraged by the continued evolution of the platform’s extensibility and the expanding ecosystem, enabling organisations to tailor solutions to their unique operating models while maintaining strong governance. Discussions around AI-driven insights and enhanced analytics also highlighted how finance teams can unlock greater value from their data to support more confident decision-making.

A new automated narrative reporting approach was announced, enabling users to perform live analysis of corporate performance drivers and review and edit traditionally disjointed data and documentation all within the OneStream platform. 

“CFOs are facing increased expectations to drive the business beyond finance, which puts pressure on Finance teams to eliminate risk, build trust and drive quicker, more accurate reporting,” said Tom Shea, CEO at OneStream. “Today's news underscores how we’re making a traditionally disjointed and lengthy narrative reporting process easier, centralized and more collaborative than ever before, thereby increasing the strategic impact of the Office of the CFO.”

Key features of OneStream’s new Narrative Reporting capability include:

• Centralised Narrative Report Assembly: Narrative Books are unified within the OneStream platform to streamline report content, create live analysis and deepen collaboration on report narratives to effectively communicate corporate performance.
• Live Reporting Analysis: Analyse and gather financial context to reports, charts, spreadsheets, and documents within Narrative Books that is linked live to validated OneStream data directly in the report.
• Reduced Risk and Reporting Errors: Leverage the same OneStream interface for data, workflows and controls to eliminate the risks and costs associated with copying, pasting and managing data across multiple tools and solutions.
• Automated Processes: Embed Narrative Reporting into the close, planning and other workflow processes with built-in approvals to save time and ensure accuracy.
• Collaborate with Confidence: Collaborate on rich, formatted Narrative Books with the familiarity of Microsoft Office. Add comments, track changes and view all activities to streamline approvals and minimise reporting errors.

Beyond the product roadmap, the event offered a fantastic opportunity to connect with peers, share experiences, and discuss real-world transformation journeys. It’s always valuable to hear how organisations are overcoming common challenges and driving measurable outcomes through modern CPM strategies.

Overall, OneStream Connect London reaffirmed the momentum we’re seeing across the market: finance functions are increasingly becoming strategic partners to the business, powered by unified platforms and smarter processes.

If you’d like to discuss any of the themes from the event or explore how these developments could support your organisation’s roadmap, we’d be delighted to continue the conversation: