Video · August 6, 2025
How Angelo State unified student and Finance data for smarter resource decisions
About this video
Angelo State University, a public university in San Angelo, Texas serving 11,000 students, struggled to connect student data and financial data in a way that supported meaningful management decisions. Manual processes and fragmented spreadsheets meant resource allocation decisions on the academic affairs side were being made without a complete, reliable picture.
OneStream brought student and Finance data together in a normalized, reportable format accessible to leadership in seconds. A fund balance report that once required significant manual effort can now be generated by the CFO instantly, and non-technical users are building meaningful reports without writing a single line of code.
Speakers
Executive Director of Budget and Payroll Services | Angelo State University
System Analyst Developer | Angelo State University
Key takeaways
- Combining student data and Finance data in one platform transformed how Angelo Stateallocates resources. Leadership can now run reports that connect enrollment and financial information to make better-informed academic affairs decisions.
- Manual processes across ten different spreadsheetsmaintained by ten different people have been replaced by one normalized platform. OneStreameliminated the inconsistency and duplication that previously made it impossible to trust the numbers coming from different parts of the institution.
- A fund balance report that previouslyrequired significant effort can now be generated by the CFO in seconds. That single capability was the moment OneStream became a believer-making tool for the Budget and Payroll team.
- Non-technical users are building meaningful reports without writing any code. The no-code report writing capability gives Angelo State the ability to grow its OneStream usage without depending on developer resources for every new reporting need.
- The early investment is already payingoff and the team sees significant runway ahead. With meaningful results delivered in just two months, Angelo State is excited about what the platform can do for informed decision-making across the entire institution going forward.
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My name is Dwayne Pruitt. I'm the Executive Director of Budget and Payroll Services. I've been at Angelo State for 10 years. My name is Riley Rossi. I'm with Angelo State University and I'm a system analyst developer there.
So Angelo State is a public university located in San Angelo, Texas. We have an enrollment of about 11,000 students. So we had a change in leadership. So that led to wanting to get dashboards and more financial reporting that would be more effective for management.
Combine financial information with student information in that you could run a report to make better informed decisions about allocating resources mainly on the academic affairs side within the departments.
Prior to OneStream, a lot of our processes were manual. The student side and the finance side, you couldn't combine the information to make them relevant information for management. To bring the student data and the finance data together, we pulled them up into OneStream to better present it in a normalized fashion so that we're not doing it 10 different ways on 10 different spreadsheets between 10 different people.
I became a believer in OneStream when I was able to get into the system and learn how to write reports and to be able to generate a fund balance report for our CFO in a matter of seconds that she could generate the report.
Seeing Dwayne, being able to be able to be able to do things that I didn't know how to do in the system and really make neat stuff without having to write code is impressive. And I think it gives it the ability to grow.
It's saving our time. So my early investment is definitely paying off. I'm sure I'm going to invest more in the future. With the excitement of what we have accomplished in, especially in the last two months, but the excitement of what we have and what we can do with this product going forward to help our institution and to help us make informed decisions.
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