CASE STUDY

Standardizing EPM Deployment Across an Evolving Global Portfolio


SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | LIFE SCIENCES | DIAGNOSTICS | ONESTREAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Background

Danaher is a global science and technology company operating across biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. Its dynamic portfolio continually acquires, integrates, reorganizes, and spins off businesses, requiring financial consolidation and reporting systems that can absorb complexity without slowing the organization.


15+

REPEATABLE DEPLOYMENTS

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A common transition framework applied across operating companies

 

Challenge & Approach

When CFO Solutions first engaged with Danaher in 2012, it needed a repeatable way to deploy HFM across operating companies while balancing corporate consistency with local statutory, reporting, tax, currency, and business requirements. 

CFO Solutions created a reusable blueprint for consolidation, reporting, metadata, data integration, ownership, and onboarding. As Danaher transitioned to OneStream, we converted years of institutional knowledge into a modern framework that supports acquisitions, portfolio changes, and spin-offs without treating each deployment as a standalone project.

 

Value Delivered

Danaher gained a proven EPM model that has been applied more than 15 times, creating a more predictable path for onboarding operating companies and maintaining trusted consolidated results. The common framework scales with portfolio change while preserving appropriate local flexibility. CFO Solutions continues to support OneStream expansion and help spin-offs establish, transition, or mature their own EPM capabilities.



SOLUTIONS DELIVERED

  • EPM Blueprint

  • Financial Consolidation

  • Metadata & Data Integration

  • Company Onboarding

  • OneStream Transition


CLIENT SNAPSHOT

  • $24.6B 2025 revenue

  • Approximately 50 countries

  • 15+ operating companies

  • Partnership since 2012

 

 

 

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