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Master Data Management

SOX Audit Evidence for EPM Metadata Changes: What Auditors Ask For and How to Produce It

on October 20, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
A chart of accounts change never touches a transaction. Nobody posts a journal, and no balance is entered. Yet after the change, a cost center rolls into a different line of the income statement, an account moves from one reporting group to another, and the consolidated number the board reads is different. That is why auditors treat the dimensions, hierarchies, and mappings in your EPM...
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Master Data Management

Microsoft MDS Replacement for Finance Master Data: Profisee, Semarchy, Purview, or Finance MDM?

on October 20, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Microsoft removed Master Data Services from SQL Server 2025. It stays supported in SQL Server 2022 and earlier, and Microsoft has not shipped a successor. For most companies, that means the chart of accounts, cost centers, legal entities and mapping tables that have lived in MDS for a decade now need a new home, chosen on a database upgrade timeline rather than a finance timeline.
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OneStream

How to Sync Governed EPM Hierarchies into Databricks

on October 14, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Ask an AI assistant how to sync governed EPM hierarchies into Databricks and you will get a very good answer for a data engineer: export from the EPM application, land files in cloud storage, stream them into a bronze Delta table, normalize parent-child edges in silver, flatten for reporting in gold, register everything in Unity Catalog, and write a MERGE statement to handle changes. All of that...
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Master Data Management

Before, During, or After: When to Add Master Data Governance to a OneStream Project

on October 2, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
A OneStream implementation is one of the largest decisions a finance organization makes in a decade. It replaces the consolidation engine, the planning engine, and usually the reporting layer that the board reads. The business case is written around close speed, a unified platform, and the end of spreadsheet consolidation. Somewhere in the project plan, usually in a line item called "metadata...
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EDMCS

Is Oracle EDM Worth the Cost? A Decision Guide for PBCS and FCCS

on September 28, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
If you run Oracle EPM Cloud, the question arrives on schedule. Your PBCS and FCCS applications each maintain their own dimensions. Someone on the team spends part of every month keeping accounts, entities, and cost centers aligned between them, plus the ERP, plus whatever feeds the data warehouse. Oracle's answer to that problem is Enterprise Data Management, and it is a real product with a real...
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The Best Financial Master Data Management Software in 2026: A Buyer's Guide

on September 20, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Search for the best financial master data management software and you will get the same ten-vendor roundup you get for every other kind of MDM. That is the problem. Most master data management platforms were built to reconcile customer and product records across an enterprise. Finance has a different job: keeping the chart of accounts, legal entities, cost centers, and hierarchies correct and...
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Best Oracle EPM Metadata Management Tools Compared

on September 12, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
If you run Oracle EPM Cloud, you already know the quiet cost of metadata. Every account, entity, cost center, and hierarchy has to exist, correctly and consistently, in Planning (PBCS or EPBCS), Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS), Tax Reporting (TRCS), and Profitability and Cost Management (PCMCS), and usually in an ERP and a data warehouse as well. One dimension added in one application...
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EPMware for OneStream Metadata Governance

on September 3, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
OneStream brought the office of finance a lot closer to a single platform. Consolidation, planning, reporting, and analysis that used to live in separate tools now run together on one unified, extensible foundation. But unifying your performance management platform is not the same as governing the metadata that feeds it. For enterprise finance systems leaders, that distinction is where the next...
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10 Must Have Data Governance Capabilities in Finance MDM

on August 23, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
Every master data management vendor will hand you a feature list, and on paper they all look alike. Import data, build hierarchies, push changes out to your systems. For an enterprise finance team, that surface-level comparison is exactly how you end up with a tool that demos beautifully and then buckles the first time a controller needs a clean audit trail or a hierarchy change has to clear...
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Your Financial Close Isn't Slow. Your Master Data Is.

on August 13, 2026 | By Abhi Nerurkar
It's close week. At 11 p.m., a consolidation load fails. The culprit isn't your team, your ERP, or your consolidation tool. It's a single new cost center that was created in the source system last Tuesday and never made it into the hierarchy your consolidation depends on. Someone opens a flat file, hand-edits the member, reruns the load, and goes home. The number is wrong until it isn't, and no...
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