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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, ...
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Ascend Makes a Splash at Wave Conference in Las Vegas
Ascend Partners was proud to send eight members of its team to the OneStream Wave Conference held in Las Vegas from November 9th to 11th. The conference featured three learning streams: developer, architect and tax. Most of the team attended the developer and architect sessions while one member attended the tax sessions.
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SAP Discontinues Maintenance: OneStream Rides in as a White Knight
As a company, CFO, or large enterprise that has used SAP (ECC or SAP S/4HANA) and seen the future development of the multitude of potential SAP products and the forced migration to a flawed product, your most pressing question may be:
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Ascend Partners: 2022 Power of the Platform Award Winner by OneStream
Ascend Partners is proud to announce that we have been recognized as a Power of the Platform Award Winner by OneStream at the 2022 Splash Global User Conference and Partner Summit. This award recognizes OneStream Global Advisory Program partners who have truly extended the OneStream platform over the past year across North America, Latin ...
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Ascend Partners Named 2022 Power of the Platform Winner by OneStream
The most trusted OneStream Diamond Partner delivering finance transformation initiatives and sophisticated OneStream Platform implementations for organizations around the globe. TORONTO, May 26, 2022 - Today, Ascend Partners Inc., a trusted advisor in corporate performance management, is pleased to announce they have been recognized as a ...
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Barrick Gold: Successfully Migrating Financial Planning Platforms
When your current financial software can no longer deliver the value you need, it’s time to make a change. The decision between upgrading a patchwork combination of point solutions and migrating to a best-in-class tool is easy — especially when you’ve got Ascend Partners implementing the new solution. When Barrick Gold faced this same ...
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Ascend Partners Becomes Latest OneStream Diamond Implementation Partner
Industry leader and OneStream partner brings deep domain expertise and extensive implementation experience to the Office of Finance TORONTO, January 5, 2022 - Today, Ascend Partners Inc., a trusted advisor in corporate performance management, is pleased to announce they have become a OneStream Diamond implementation partner for ...
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Intelligent Finance have your finance department ‘Leading at Speed’
The term intelligent finance has moved beyond connected finance in finance theory for organizations. No longer is it simply ok for enterprises to have finance departments that are silos unto themselves or lead from a financial perspective only. The best managed and performing companies are leading at speed by having their finance ...
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Are you investing in FP&A for Workforce Planning?
The pandemic has created an unprecedented labour situation, and it’s compounding trends that were already growing pre-COVID. If your company is not worried about the war for talent already underway, you are already behind your competitors. Let us examine some of the major trends that have led to this nexus point for millions of workers ...
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Hyperion Customers are at a Crossroads: Upgrade and Stagnate, or Convert and Lead at Speed
Oracle’s Hyperion has shown its hand. The Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) latest update, 11.2, is anything but an innovative move to modern standards and/or a true cloud experience for enterprises. While the update supports customers for another 10 years, there is no planned real innovation. It has become apparent that HFM clients ...
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Why using your ERPs CPM for financial close is hurting your business
Are you using legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) functions? If you are, your business innovation, reporting, financial consolidation and close, business intelligence and senior leader decision making is undoubtedly hurting as a result.
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Why Data Aggregation is not Financial Consolidation
In our first blog, Peter Popalis, CPA, CA and Co-Founder of Ascend Partners, and globally recognized expert OneStream architect, explains the important difference between simple aggregation and what a financial platform such as OneStream does in comparison.