The challenge
A group consolidation that had to absorb constant structural change.
Pentland Group is a privately owned, multi-brand consumer products group whose portfolio spans outdoor, sport and lifestyle footwear and apparel. All nine brand companies — together with the Pentland Group holding and investment companies — operate on a single shared SAP system, which made the quality of the SAP integration layer a group-wide concern from the very start.
Pentland implemented EPM FastTrack in 2017 to integrate its SAP landscape with Oracle Hyperion Financial Management — covering not just the nine brands, but the Pentland Group holding company and investment companies sitting on the same SAP system. Consolidation is only as reliable as its weakest mapping, and Pentland needed every entity, brand and investment vehicle reporting on a consistent, auditable basis. Pentland Group, like any active brand portfolio, also goes through acquisitions, divestments and restructuring on an ongoing basis — and any integration layer would need to absorb a major re-work every time the group’s shape changed.
How EPMFastTrack handles it
Structural change handled as configuration, not re-implementation.
What kept EPM FastTrack in place for seven years wasn’t a single integration running quietly in the background — it was the ability to absorb constant structural change without requiring a re-platform or re-work. EPM FastTrack handled these changes as configuration, not re-implementation — for example, when a company that had been set up on SAP as part of the group was divested, it could be reclassified and reported as a third party without disrupting the rest of the consolidation.
In 2024, Pentland evaluated OneStream’s own native SAP connectivity as part of their move away from Oracle Hyperion. They chose to keep EPM FastTrack instead.
Kept through a platform migration, not replaced by one.
When Pentland moved from Oracle Hyperion Financial Management and Planning to OneStream for group consolidation and planning, they evaluated OneStream’s standard integration tooling as the default path — the option most vendors would expect a customer to take when changing consolidation platforms. Pentland chose to retain EPM FastTrack instead, specifically because of the integration quality and drill-down traceability it had delivered throughout the Oracle Hyperion years. Rather than start over, EPM FastTrack was enhanced to work natively with OneStream.
The enhanced solution brings OneStream’s full metadata into SAP, where it drives accurate mapping and validates transformed data before it ever leaves the SAP system. Each submission is exposed as an OData service using the one OData model, with each service publishing separate entity sets within the same service — one for transformed and validated data, and one for that same data broken down by SAP characteristics. This gives Pentland’s finance and FP&A teams both a clean consolidated feed and full traceability to the SAP detail behind it.
Today, EPM FastTrack powers five distinct submission types into OneStream, each configured using the same standard sources used for HFM integration:
- Full financial submission — closing balance sheet including intercompany balances, profit and loss with margin breakdown by channel and overhead breakdown by cost centre, complete balance sheet and cash flow movements, and geographical sales analysis.
- Margin report — detailed margin breakdown by customer channel and product category.
- Special cost reporting — purpose-built submission for detailed cost analysis.
- Open sales orders — read directly from a SAP BW infoprovider, then converted and validated to OneStream characteristics.
- Integrated Business Planning — customer-channel and product-level planning still carried out in SAP BW, with EPMFastTrack converting the BW infoprovider output into OneStream format.
Why it matters
Validated in SAP throughout the period, traceable in both directions.
Every one of Pentland’s OneStream submissions is run from inside SAP. The transformed and validated data is available in SAP throughout the period, so finance can check it well before period-end rather than waiting to find out what arrived in OneStream.
And because the full OneStream submission lives in SAP, drill-down runs in both directions: a controller looking at a number in OneStream can trace it straight back to the SAP transaction line it came from.
One integration, nine brands
Every brand below reports through the same SAP integration.
