Oh Claude, give it a REST!
What Happens When You Mix One Curious Architect, AI, a PDF, and Enterprise Software? Like most of you, our team at Ascend has been looking at how to leverage AI, both to support our own work and to help our clients navigate what feels like a rapidly changing landscape. AI is becoming increasingly important across finance and technology, ...
Press Release
Ascend Partners Joins Forces with Pigment to Scale AI-Driven Enterprise Decision-Making
Partnership brings finance, revenue, HR, and supply chain planning onto a single AI-powered foundation, giving enterprise leaders one connected way to plan and adapt. NEW YORK CITY, NY - October 1, 2026 - Ascend Partners (Ascend), a leading EPM advisory firm, today announced its partnership with Pigment, an AI-native planning and ...
Ascend Signals
Oh Claude, give it a REST!
What Happens When You Mix One Curious Architect, AI, a PDF, and Enterprise Software? Like most of you, our team at Ascend has been looking at how to leverage AI, both to support our own work and to help our clients navigate what feels like a rapidly changing landscape. AI is becoming increasingly important across finance and technology, ...
Press Release
InnoFin Solutions Joins Ascend Partners to Accelerate Office of the CFO Digital Transformation
Global FP&A leader taps popular Oracle EPM practice to drive financial and data transformation at commercial and government organizations across North America New York, NY – September 1, 2026 – Ascend Partners (Ascend), a OneStream Diamond Partner and expert in Office of the CFO digital transformation, today announced its acquisition ...
Ascend Signals
Line-Item Modeling & OneStream–A Revolution in Planning
Ascend Signals
Dynamic Cubes in OneStream: The Gamechanger Inside the Box
OneStream has introduced a feature that will change the way applications are built—streamlining design, improving performance, and reducing the need for physical data storage: Dynamic Cube Services, or DCS. DCS was released in late 2024 with v8.4, and Ascend Partners was selected as an early adopter. DCS enhances areas of OneStream’s ...
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Why CPM Express is the New Face of Financial Transformation
Over the past year, I’ve noticed a clear shift in how organizations are approaching finance transformation. Finance teams aren’t just asking more of their CPM platforms—they need the flexibility to stay nimble as the business evolves. OneStream has recognized this shift, and CPM Express is their response.
OneStream
Beyond Spreadsheets: The Future of Manufacturing Finance with OneStream
Manufacturing has always moved at a fast pace. Demand shifts, input costs fluctuate, and decisions ripple across plants, suppliers, and customers in real time. The word itself evokes nonstop production lines, tight logistic chains, and ever-tighter margins.
Real Estate
Integrated Business Planning, OneStream & Real Estate: A Blueprint for Success
An Industry of Ever-Growing Complexity Across residential development, commercial portfolios, industrial assets, and REIT structures, real estate organizations operate over long investment horizons with interconnected operational and financial dynamics. Finance and operations teams must manage this complexity—often across disconnected ...
Company Updates & Announcements
Ascend Year in Review: Celebrating 2025 Milestones and Achievements
2025 was an incredible year for Ascend and our partners—defined by innovation, collaboration, and shared success. We launched the CLIMB Program and empowered organizations through our Future-Ready Roadmap Campaign, all with one goal: delivering value that drives transformation.
Implementations
Building a Smarter OneStream Implementation
Set your implementation up for success from the start Finance is evolving rapidly. Today’s finance teams are expected to do far more than close the books and publish reports—they are strategic partners, decision accelerators, and drivers of enterprise performance. To support this broader mandate, organizations need connected data, ...
Ascend Signals
True Transformation Starts with Data: My First Two Quarters as CRO at Ascend Partners
When I stepped into the CRO role at Ascend two quarters ago, one theme became crystal clear:everyone’s chasing AI. But the ones who’ll actually get there are chasing data quality first. AI and analytics are the prize—but you can’t win it without the right foundation. AI doesn’t fix bad data. It just makes mistakes faster.
