By John O'Rourke April 16, 2025
OneStream Leads Again in BARC Score for FPM Software
Having modern, agile financial performance management (FPM) software and processes are critical to providing the insights needed to make informed decisions that can help organizations steer through volatile and uncertain economic and business conditions. This is the focus of the 2025 BARC Score for Financial Performance Management report.
Managing Financial Performance in Challenging Times
The BARC FPM Score report focuses on the highly competitive market for FPM products and portfolios that integrate FPM disciplines including financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, financial close and consolidation, financial reporting and analytics.
It analyzes the strengths and challenges of 16 leading FPM software vendors that offer outstanding value to their customers. In the report, the BARC analyst team highlights the importance of effective FPM as organizations seek to continuously monitor and accurately forecast financial targets in the age of digitalization and business disruption.
The BARC analyst team highlights how the integration of various FPM disciplines in common software platforms brings multiple organizational benefits including:
- Increased user productivity and satisfaction
- Streamlined financial management processes
- Enhanced management insights and decision-making.
Besides the shift towards unified FPM processes and systems, the BARC analyst team also highlights the increasing demand for cloud-based deployments, self-service in finance and accounting departments as well as AI and machine learning (ML) supported decision-making capabilities in FPM software.
OneStream Recognized as a 5X Leader
So how did OneStream fare in this evaluation? We are pleased to report that for the fifth year in a row, OneStream has been recognized as a Leader in the BARC Score for FPM software. Our Leadership position improved in the 2025 report, with OneStream now sharing the highest-rated Portfolio Capabilities and improving our placement on Market Execution. (See Figure 1 below)
Figure 1: BARC Score for FPM Software
Commenting on OneStream’s placement in the BARC Score for FPM, Dr. Christian Fuchs, Senior Analyst and head of Data & Analytics Research at BARC said, “OneStream is recognized as a Market Leader for its unified platform that supports multiple CPM processes and information streams across the enterprise. It integrates financial consolidation and close, planning, budgeting and forecasting, reporting and analysis into a single application.”
Here’s a look at the key strengths of OneStream that were highlighted in the report:
Unified CPM platform for financial consolidation and close, planning, budgeting and forecasting, reporting and analysis with built-in financial intelligence and financial data quality capabilities.
Integrated BI and analytics functionality for production reporting, disclosure management with self-service dashboards and visualizations, and ad hoc analysis via Microsoft Excel add-in along with Microsoft Power BI integration.
The OneStream Solution Exchange offering more than 100 prebuilt solutions that enable customers to quickly address new requirements and extend the capabilities of the platform.
Excellent customer feedback with the vast majority of customers saying they would recommend the platform to other organizations.
In a related report, BARC’s Financial Consolidation and Group Accounting Survey 25, OneStream received 12 Top Ranks and 25 Leading Positions in a survey of over 450 practitioners evaluating 13 leading Financial Consolidation solutions. This report provides further validation of OneStream’s market-leading functionality and ability to address the complex requirements of the world’s largest enterprises.
In this report, 100% of surveyed users said they were satisfied with OneStream. Here are some of the specific comments from OneStream users:
- “Trustworthy. Constantly improving.”
- “It has many features, more than the other tools that were considered.”
- “Good product. You can create a wow factor with the business community
by achieving major milestones that were, so far, a dream for the end user.”
Learn More
Having modern, agile financial performance management (FPM) software and processes are critical for Finance teams to effectively steer their organizations through today’s market challenges. Over 1,600 organizations have chosen OneStream’s market-leading platform to unify and streamline critical Finance processes and deliver actionable insights across the enterprise. To learn more, download a complimentary copy of the BARC FPM Score report, and contact OneStream if your organization is ready to take Finance further and thrive in the digital age.
