Video · June 9, 2026
How Kantar streamlined intercompany eliminations and close across a complex global organization
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Kantar, a global market research organization, was running consolidations across multiple divisions on SAP BPC, a cumbersome platform that made stringing data together cohesively across the business extremely problematic. With approximately five data sources feeding into a staging layer before reaching OneStream, the complexity of their data architecture demanded a platform with both depth and flexibility.
Transaction Matching on the OneStream Solution Exchange transformed intercompany eliminations, enabling users to compile and reconcile data by day plus one rather than chasing outstanding items throughout the close cycle. Extensible dimensionality gives each division its own tailored functional hierarchies, and Finance users can right-click from any consolidated number directly back to transactional detail in source ERP systems. For Tahir Hussain, OneStream is not just a tool. It is a platform, and with AI now embedded, there is nothing else in the market that can match it.
Speakers
OneStream Product Owner | Kantar
Key takeaways
- SAP BPC made consolidating financials across multiple divisions cohesively nearly impossible for Kantar. The platform's limitations and the complexity of a multi-division global organization made stringing data together reliably an ongoing struggle for the Finance team.
- Transaction Matching on the Solution Exchange transformed intercompany eliminations from a month-long chase to a day-plus-one process. Users now focus on value-added close activities rather than tracking down which suppliers have not been paid across the organization.
- Extensible dimensionality lets each division maintain its own tailored functional hierarchies within one unified platform. Kantar's divisions operate differently, and OneStream accommodates that variation without compromising the consolidated view the organization requires.
- Finance users can right-click from any consolidated balance directly to transactional detail in source ERP systems. That seamless drill-through from OneStream to underlying data gives Finance the confidence to stand behind every number in every report.
- OneStream is a platform, not just a tool, and with AI now embedded, Tahir Hussain sees nothing comparable in the market. The combination of core product capability, Solution Exchange extensibility, and native AI positions OneStream as the most complete Finance platform available today.
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My name is Tahir Hussain. I work for Kantor and I'm the OneStream product owner. They're a global market research organization, so they provide a lot of companies with market information that they may ask for. The organization was using SAP BPC, which was a very cumbersome way of trying to consolidate their financials. And because we have multi divisions, trying to string all that data together in a cohesive fashion was very problematic. So we selected OneStream primarily because of the scope of the platform to do so many things. Just out of the box you had enough capabilities, but then the marketplace allowed you to extend your product offerings. One of my favorite solutions on the marketplace is the Transaction Matching Module to consolidate, you know, 3 billion tons of organizations in the company. Results was very challenging. With implementing transaction matching. We were able to compile all that data by day minus day to day plus one. So we're pulling data from the source ERP systems into OneStream.
by day plus one the users are actually eliminating all of the incremental differences. And they're actually focusing on value added month and activities rather than chasing who's hasn't paid their supplier, etc.. So one of the key advantages we have in OneStream was to use extensibility. Each of our divisions are different, so we can actually tailor each division to have the different functional hierarchies that they need. We have about five different data sources that come in into our staging layer, which we call the data lake. And then from the data lake, we have basically a feed that goes into OneStream, and then to that the users can go back and get down to the transactional level detail for the ERP sets anyway. As you know, finance users love Excel, so our buyers really love drilling into Excel in trying to create their own reports. And because of the extensibility we've got, they can right click on any number they see and do right click, go back and basically pull back the data and they can check the number from the balance that they saw in OneStream with the transactional details they get out of their source ERP sold in one place, and it's the whole company doing them. OneStream gives you not just a tool, it's a platform. The marketplace solutions with the core product offering. And now with the introduction of the AI, that OneStream have put in place. I don't think there's anything else out there right now, that can offer that capability.
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