Higher Education demands a higher standard for finance management. Choose OneStream and Ascend.

Transform financial management at your institution with a unified platform for FP&A, close, consolidation, and reporting. Streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and strengthen governance and compliance—all while gaining the agility to adapt to the ever-evolving academic landscape. Empower your institute to make smarter decisions, optimize resources, and drive long-term success.

Higher Education institutions are at a financial crossroads. The time to future-proof is now.

College and university finance leaders are navigating an increasingly complex financial landscape. Rising operational costs, fluctuating enrollment trends, and evolving student expectations create ongoing challenges that demand careful financial stewardship.

At the same time, higher education institutions must balance competing priorities, from maintaining academic excellence and funding critical research to ensuring affordability and accessibility for students. These pressures require institutions to be more strategic and data-driven in their financial decision-making than ever before.

Many institutions continue to operate with disconnected legacy systems and manual processes that impede strategic growth. This fragmented approach increases operational risk while limiting the agility needed to address emerging challenges.

OneStream, the all-in-one platform

OneStream unifies your institution's financial ecosystem, transforming budgeting, planning, reporting, and consolidation through a single, powerful platform. OneStream’s comprehensive solution eliminates disparate systems and manual processes, enabling your finance team to focus on strategic initiatives that drive institutional excellence.

Maintain a single source of truth

Centralizing your data creates a unified source of truth, ensuring consistency and accuracy across your organization. With all financial and operational data in one place, teams can collaborate more effectively, reducing silos and improving decision-making. This seamless integration enhances visibility, streamlines reporting, and empowers both Finance and Operations to drive strategic growth with confidence.

Data transparency for enhanced governance and compliance

Responsive access to accurate financial data strengthens your institution's compliance posture and audit readiness. OneStream's built-in controls, automated workflows, and comprehensive audit trails ensure accountability while simplifying regulatory reporting requirements. Native drill-back and drill-through capabilities within the OneStream platform enable a clear audit trail between systems, ensuring financial integrity and transparency.

Diverse integrations and extensibility

Easily integrate your OneStream ecosystem with a wide range of platforms to enhance functionality. Leverage the OneStream MarketPlace to extend your application, offering additional tools and resources that fit your institution’s needs and streamline your processes.

Streamlined finance operations

Automate manual tasks to enhance your operations, improving efficiency and optimizing processes. By automating reporting, forecasting, and budgeting, you can eliminate bottlenecks, reduce errors, and speed up financial cycles, allowing finance teams to focus on more strategic, value-driven activities.

Responsive insights

Empower users with actionable insights and responsive analytics for clearer, data-driven decision-making. Gain the transparency needed for internal and external stakeholders to assess current, historical, and future performance. With customizable dashboards, Excel exports, and robust reporting, accessing financial data has never been easier—helping you drive smarter, strategic decisions.

Navigate your finance transformation with the most trusted OneStream Diamond Partner.

Ascend Partners assists higher education institutions in navigating finance transformation by combining over a decade of experience with the powerful capabilities of OneStream.

With Ascend’s diverse team of experts, including 15+ OneStream Certified Professional lead architects, finance leaders gain unparalleled visibility into business intelligence, streamlining everything from budgeting and forecasting to planning and scenario analysis. Our team brings a broad range of specialized knowledge from accounting, technical and development disciplines, ensuring that each solution is tailored to meet the unique needs of higher education institutions.

Ascend master applications, templates and tools

Our powerful suite of accelerators, templates, and time-saving tools optimize OneStream deployments and ensure scalability for long-term success, aligning your OneStream system with your institution’s growth.

A diverse team of experts

With specialized knowledge and a collaborative approach, Ascend ensures that each phase of your OneStream implementation is executed by the right expert, optimizing both functionality and technical performance.

Comprehensive support

At Ascend, we provide comprehensive support throughout the entire OneStream deployment, ensuring that your team is equipped for success. From pre-implementation to ongoing Managed Service Operations (MSO), our support structure is designed to address your needs and drive long-term value, ensuring your system operates seamlessly.

Our proven methodology

With our tried-and-tested methodology, Ascend ensures efficient and effective OneStream implementations. With 10+ years of experience and over 60 successful go-lives, we guarantee that your finance transformation aligns with best practices, is delivered on time, and meets your long-term objectives.

Recognized leaders in OneStream integrations

As a recognized authority in OneStream integrations, Ascend Partners has a dedicated team that seamlessly connects OneStream with Excel, ERP systems, cloud platforms, BI tools, and custom applications. Our expertise ensures institutions can consolidate and leverage data for a truly unified and efficient financial management experience.

Transparency and trust

Transparency and trust are at the core of everything we do, and our commitment to transparent communication, integrity, and accountability ensures we build lasting, successful partnerships with clients and stakeholders alike.

Frequently asked questions

Can Ascend help integrate OneStream with existing higher education ERP systems?

Yes, Ascend specializes in seamlessly integrating OneStream with leading higher education ERP systems, including the most widely-used platforms in the sector. Our integration expertise ensures smooth data flow while maintaining existing workflows. To learn more about our integration expertise, click here.

What specific benefits does OneStream bring to higher education institutions?

We leverage OneStream to provide higher education institutions with precise planning and forecasting, streamlined financial close processes and enhanced operational insights.

This collaboration enables finance leaders to understand costs, improve financial performance and make informed strategic decisions. To learn more about the OneStream platform, click here.

How does OneStream improve financial planning and reporting for higher education institutions?

OneStream automates data consolidation, enhances budget forecasting, and provides interactive dashboards, ensuring accurate financial insights for strategic planning. To learn more about OneStream for FP&A, click here.

What is Ascend’s approach to implementing OneStream for higher education?

With deep expertise and a proven track record, Ascend Partners provides expert guidance in designing, implementing, and optimizing OneStream for higher education institutions. Our highly experienced consultants and project managers take a tailored approach, collaborating closely with finance and IT teams to deliver solutions that align with institutional goals. Through a thorough and structured scoping and requirements gathering process, we ensure every aspect of the ideal OneStream ecosystem is meticulously planned and brought to life, maximizing efficiency and impact.

Discover OneStream

OneStream simplifies complex financial processes into a single, intelligent platform, empowering organizations to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and drive financial transformation.

Why Ascend?

Our team possesses the perfect combination of technical expertise and extensive knowledge to provide cutting-edge solutions that perfectly align with the constantly evolving technological landscape of today and tomorrow.