Why Onestream Can Be Deployed Before or in Parallel with an SAP S/4HANA Migration

Many SAP Finance teams delay planning and consolidation upgrades until after their SAP S/4HANA migration finishes, assuming it's the safer sequence. However, SAPinsider research shows that this wait often lasts longer than expected: 55% of organizations have deployed SAP S/4HANA, but only 34% have fully switched daily operations to it, and 42% still take more than eight days to close. At Splash 2026, OneStream introduced a new cube engine and a Line Item Modeling engine built for exactly this gap, cutting one real consolidation from more than 90 minutes to 28 minutes and letting teams plan workforce, contracts, and projects at the level where decisions actually happen. The takeaway for CIOs and Finance leaders is to treat planning and consolidation as landscape-agnostic infrastructure, deployed before or alongside SAP S/4HANA, not after it.

Read more on SAP Insider: https://sapinsider.org/map/modernizing-finance-before-during-or-after-the-sap-s-4hana-move/