BlackLine
BlackLine’s cloud solutions for the financial close complement SAP solutions as part of an end-to-end offering for Finance. Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes—often performed outside the ERP—are not sustainable. BlackLine helps companies move to modern accounting by unifying processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine solutions for SAP provide deep functionality and direct, real-time integration to SAP software. BlackLine helps accounting teams transform processes like close task orchestration and balance sheet substantiation. More than 3,500 companies, including more than 800 running SAP solutions, trust BlackLine to help them close faster with complete and accurate results. BlackLine is SAP’s 2021 Partner of the Year – Solution Extensions.
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Account Substantiation & Automation
Unify and automate financial close activities and streamline audits by modernizing error-prone, manual activities like reconciliations, journal entries, and controls.
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Intercompany Financial Hub
Govern and automate intercompany processes from end-to-end, across all ERPs and data sources, with a proactive solution that complements native SAP functionality.
Featured Content
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SAP Runs BlackLine to Improve the Financial Close
SAP enhances its financial processes by adopting BlackLine’s automation solutions for streamlined accounting and improved risk management.
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Finance Automation for Greater Process Efficiency to Enable More Value-Add Activities
Discover how Officeworks achieved process efficiency and automation while supporting business growth, as they share their journey of implementing Blackline and its modules, along with valuable post go-live experiences.
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Why Accounting Must Break Free of Spreadsheets
If you’re suffering from the day-to-day of spreadsheet shackles, Patrick Schmidt, a Principal Solutions Consultant at BlackLine, understands your pain. He’s an accountant by trade turned finance and accounting (F&A) automation expert extraordinaire. Now, he loves a good spreadsheet from time to time, but he knows first-hand that the numerous and sometimes massive spreadsheets that F&A teams work with come with baggage.
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What’s the Better, Faster and More Efficient Approach to Intercompany Operations?
Watch the on-demand webinar, where we reveal the latest trends in intercompany operations and share the Kraft Heinz journey.
Articles / Case Studies / Videos
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How BlackLine Leads the way for Record-to-Report Processes
SAP organisations are beginning to realise that they can no longer afford to rely on outdated, manual processes to support essential business workflows. When Record-to-Report processes are still siloed or data is kept in different formats, organisations can struggle to keep pace. BlackLine helps organisations overcome the record-to-report issues with a cloud-first, digital solution that can integrate seamlessly with SAP. The solution also…
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Modernising financial reporting with proactive and agile approach
BlackLine created the SAP Account Substantiation and Automation solution extension to help transform financial review processes.
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Improving Invoice-to-Cash Processes with BlackLine
More than ever before, finance teams are under tremendous pressure to operate more efficiently while also delivering improved insights to decision-makers at the top of their organisation. This can prove to be difficult, as many of these teams are operating with the same size of teams and budgets that they have had for years. These…
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BlackLine Bolsters Finance Proficiency at BeyondTheBlack Event
Finance professionals are always on the lookout for the best ways to keep pace in a market that is constantly in flux. Companies need to find and leverage the most cutting-edge solutions and strategies to gain a critical advantage. To help financial professionals meet these goals, the finance and accounting experts at BlackLine recently held…
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Leverage ease of compliance, scalability to make the case for finance transformation
Around 25 percent of SAP customers globally have moved to SAP S/4HANA Finance and around 24 percent are currently implementing the solution, according to research from SAPinsider (note: Mastering SAP and SAPinsider are part of the Wellesley group of companies). SAPinsider’s Benchmark report, SAP S/4HANA Finance State of the Market 2024, surveyed 124 SAP customers…
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Consolidate your financial review processes within your SAP system
BlackLine in June released its SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, financial review option offering as an SAP Solution Extension, providing SAP customers a financial reporting analytics solution for their SAP core software. The solution – also known as “financial review option” – enables an organisation’s finance teams to proactively review financial statements at…
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SAP updates financial reporting analytics tool
SAP has added a financial reporting analytics solution to its range of SAP Solution Extensions via partner BlackLine. BlackLine’s Financial Reporting Analytics will be sold under the name “SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, financial review option” as an SAP Solution Extension. SAP Solution Extensions are add-ons to SAP’s core software that provides additional…
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NZ’s Powerco adds finance automation to SAP S/4HANA environment
New Zealand gas and electricity distributor Powerco has added automation capabilities to its SAP S/4HANA environment to boost efficiency of its finance team. Speaking at the recent Mastering SAP Collaborate Melbourne event, Powerco’s IT and finance leaders shared how the company made its financial processes more streamlined by implementing an automated solution. Powerco, which has…
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SAP chooses BlackLine to streamline accounting processes for leased assets
In implementing Blackline’s SAP Account Substantiation and Automation solution, SAP has improved accuracy, speed and cost savings while reducing compliance risk. Not a small thing for a global company of 110,000 employees, 35,000 contracts and 140 legal entities across 180 countries. In terms of compliance, the changes to IFRFS16, the international accounting standard related to…
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Video: Experience Financial Close Excellence with SAP
Join this webinar to experience highlights from the BlackLine and SAP Financial Close Excellence session at this year’s virtual InTheBlack London event.
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Article: Why Leading Organizations are Moving to the Cloud
The most cost-effective way to automate resource-exhausting, manual tasks is in the cloud. Here are four more benefits that your organization can gain. Find other insightful content from BlackLine on their Vendor Showcase
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Solution Brief: BlackLine Extends Your SAP Investment
BlackLine’s solutions for SAP complement any ERP environment by automating processes, strengthening controls, and streamlining core close tasks. Find other insightful content from BlackLine on their Vendor Showcase
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Finance Transformation at Powerco: Out with Spreadsheets in with Automation
Discover how Powerco Finance streamlined business growth by automating General Ledger Account Reconciliations, addressing inefficiencies of spreadsheets and email, and enhancing month-end close management through Blackline's cloud application. Mastering SAP Premium Access Membership Required You must be a Mastering SAP Premium Access member to access this content.Join NowAlready a member? Log in here