Video · November 24, 2025
How Comcast gave two companies one shared financial language
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Comcast, a Fortune 30 telecom and entertainment conglomerate, faced a significant Finance challenge after acquiring Sky in Europe. With Sky operating on SAP while Comcast ran on a different ERP, pulling data across systems and translating it into a common reporting language made it nearly impossible to tell a coherent story to leadership. The business was effectively operating as two separate companies.
OneStream bridged that gap, automating data ingestion across multiple ERP systems and giving every team a shared language for performance reporting. The ability to drill from top-level financials all the way to source data has been transformative, and Comcast is now looking ahead to AI-driven insights that move Finance beyond recording actuals toward genuinely understanding what is driving the business.
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Director of Reporting and Analysis | Comcast
Key takeaways
- Acquiring Sky created a reporting nightmare with two ERP systems, two languages, and no shared source of truth. Leadership readouts relied on piecemeal, manually stitched data that was difficult to trace and nearly impossible to present with confidence.
- OneStream gave Comcast and Sky a common financial language for the first time since the acquisition. Both businesses now operate from one platform, enabling Finance to research, compare, and report across the combined organization without translation overhead.
- Automated ERP ingestion supports a tight, accelerated close process across multiple source systems. Data arrives in OneStream on time so Finance can understand what is happening before leadership readouts begin, not after the fact.
- The ability to drill from top-level financials all the way to source data is Comcast's favorite OneStream capability. Understanding what is driving a change, not just recording that a change occurred, is what transforms Finance from a reporting function into a strategic one.
- Comcast is looking ahead to AI-driven insights that move Finance beyond actuals into genuine business understanding. With the breadth of systems OneStream can consolidate, the opportunity to replace fragmented tools and unlock deeper intelligence is, in their words, almost overwhelming.
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I'm Sal DeRose. I'm a director of reporting and analysis for Comcast. We're a Fortune 30 company. We're a conglomerate of telecom and entertainment. Prior to using OneStream, we were using HFM. We purchased a company called Sky in Europe, and they fold into segments of our business, but they use a different application for their ERP.
We had to take their financials in a completely different language, and so it was really difficult to pull data out of SAP and read it out in fusion language, which our teams are used to, as well as it's difficult for them to then be able to read out what is happening in their business without being able to translate into the language that our leadership used to.
It was very difficult to tell the story at the leadership level because of the fact that it was a lot of piecemeal and, you know, stitching together information that wasn't easy to trace back. By using OneStream, we were able to bridge that gap, give everybody insight into what the company's doing and how they're performing in a way that we can all kind of talk the same language and be able to research, whereas before we were operating as two separate companies.
So to get data into OneStream, we have multiple ERP systems. We have it all automated so that during our close process, it's coming in timely, which is really helpful because of the fact that we have a tight close and accelerated close.
To be able to pivot and understand what's happening before we start readouts has been critical for us. My favorite thing about OneStream is being able to drill in from top-level information and go all the way to the source data where you can actually understand what's driving the change.
The things we're looking forward to with OneStream is the insights from AI that we're going to be able to draw and then leverage all the capabilities of OneStream to better understand what's happening in the business, not just recording out the actuals.
It's almost overwhelming the amount of systems we use that OneStream can replace and do all in one spot.
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