BlackLine is a provider of solutions for the management of financial closing processes, accounting automation and intercompany governance.
BlackLine's cloud solutions for F&A are the only SAP premium qualified financial close solutions. They complement SAP solutions including SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Central Finance and many others.
Companies come to BlackLine to improve F&A efficiencies while ensuring compliance and increase real-time visibility for optimal end-to-end financial close management. We help companies transition to automated, continuous accounting by unifying their data and processes and automating repetitive work. BlackLine's solutions for SAP offer diverse functionality and direct real-time integration with SAP. We help accounting teams transform processes such as orchestrating closing tasks, balance sheet reconciliation, large volume reconciliation, journal entry management, and intercompany governance.
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(GERMAN) 5 ways in which CIOs and CFOs can work together optimally for finance transformation
Disruption has set both CIOs and CFOs drivers of digital and financial transformation. Finance and technology experts agree that more changes are coming, from increased mergers and acquisitions to ERP modernization efforts, all of which bring opportunities and risks. It's important to be prepared for anything - and BlackLine can help them do that.
(GERMAN)10 reasons why companies everywhere are switching to BlackLine
It has never been more important for accounting to be continuous, efficient and collaborative. That's why companies around the world are evaluating their financial close systems and processes and turning to BlackLine.
(ENGLISH) IDG Servey: Modernizing Key Financial Processes Through Accounting & IT Collaboration
According to a recent IDG survey of F&A and IT executives at 250 U.S. companies, accounting and IT teams are focused more than ever on modernizing their manual processes. As finance and accounting demands increase, executives are finding that traditional compliance and close activities are getting in the way of more strategic work. Learn more about the changing roles and priorities in today's F&A.
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(DEUTSCH) Finance Transformation with BlackLine
The BlackLine Finance Transformation Solution empowers the accounting and finance function to manage and control the end-to-end financial close process by automating accounting workflows, providing a centralized and secure workspace for performing period-end closing activities, and streamlining financial reporting. The resulting absence of complex, manual, and error-prone steps associated with legacy accounting practices allows teams to focus on discrepancy analysis and become the company's business partner.
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CFOs Look Ahead With Assured (Self-)confidence
Trust is a great asset that is more easily gambled away than won. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals' confidence in their companies' financial figures has increased in recent years.
Confidence in SAP financial figures
In uncertain times, it is important to know who or what you can rely on. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals have increased their confidence in their companies' financial figures in recent years.
Continuous Accounting and Automation
Automation in controlling as well as in finance and accounting (F&A) is one of the major topics of recent years, as automation is the basis for many additional and new possibilities for better structuring accounting.
Digital transformation in finance
Digitization is taking hold in all business areas and is being driven forward massively in most industries. There is a need to catch up in this respect in the financial organization, where too little has been invested in automation in recent years.
ERP transformation is not just IT upgrade
Processes such as supply chains, warehousing, operations, trading, reporting, manufacturing, human resources, and especially finance converge in the central ERP like nerve cords in a brain. Ergo, companies strive to maintain this core tool, keeping it up to date and transforming it to a new level when necessary.
Automation does not equal value creation
Valid financial figures and realistic forecasts are a top priority for companies. If you want to meet this demand, you have to establish end-to-end processes and ensure that everything meshes when it comes to automation.
Moving away from the patchwork to the holistic process
The consequences of patchy digitization and how BlackLine's holistic approach to automation is making a difference to corporate finance departments.
The Clever Principle
The pressure to which companies and their employees are exposed is enormous and will continue to increase. Anyone who ignores this situation and assumes that they will just have to work all the harder is wrong.
CFOs want more insights - the cloud makes it possible
Automation and modern processes create the necessary flexibility and agility in finance and accounting to support the business with valuable data. This is made possible by scalable cloud technology, which also facilitates hybrid working.
Countering the shortage of skilled workers
The shortage of skilled workers in Germany continues to worsen. The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce is not the only one to observe this with great concern, with its report already showing that more than half of companies are unable to fill vacancies.
M&A Booster: Modern Accounting
Why merging IT systems is so important in mergers and how a digital accounting process can help.
Standing up to the Great Resignation
In the USA, the economy is struggling with a new phenomenon: almost four million employees have quit their jobs. This is the highest number ever and 24 percent higher than before the pandemic. What does this mean for our market?
Doing is better than wanting
If you want to equip your company for the future, it's better to push ahead with digitization today than tomorrow. This applies in particular to accounting - traditionally a rather conservative area of the company that likes to stick to tried and tested processes.
Digital (D)jerk
For those who look ahead, the lasting change brought about by Covid-19 is a jolt. Those, on the other hand, who continue to implement digitization only hesitantly will feel even greater pressure.
Better prepared for S/4 Hana with Continuous Accounting
One of the most important tasks for quality assurance in finance is establishing consistent and reliable processes, especially when switching to new systems such as S/4 Hana.
Continuous accounting thanks to automation and AI
Why SAP and BlackLine complement each other perfectly and provide relief for the month-end closing process
SAP and BlackLine have been working closely together for a long time. Since last year, BlackLine's automation solutions have even been part of the exclusive group of SAP Solution Extensions and are now an integral part of SAP's product strategy for the record-to-report process. For customers, this partnership not only means more transparency and planning security, but above all an attractive range of forward-looking solutions for automated financial closing.
Driving on sight instead of navigating in the fog
Automation solutions provide transparency and create the basis for a modern financial statement. How real-time data and analytics are revolutionizing finance.
The time is ripe for the spreadsheet exit
To be successful in the battle for new employees and charismatic managers, you have to come up with a lot: Recruiting events on the golf course, job speed dating and a positive work-life balance are often no longer enough.
Digitization in finance - from hype to reality
The investment hurdles for new technologies are lower than ever. Modern finance and accounting solutions can be introduced quickly and used easily - the perfect time for CFOs to make trend-setting decisions.
Finance & Accounting 4.0
The transformation driven by digitization is not only producing new job profiles, but is also changing the profile of established professions - including employees in F&A (Finance & Accounting) departments.
Agility and the new role of the CFO
In complex companies, CFOs need more technology to make decisions effectively, in addition to a functioning strategy. This gives CFOs a more active role in shaping strategy and corporate governance.
Automated financial closure - Everything in safety
The customer convention of SAP partner BlackLine is called: In the Black. This says it all when the CFO's closing is done on time, without overtime and with consistent data. Manual reconciliation via Excel is definitely a thing of the past in the age of digital transformation.
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