BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) recently announced it won an SAP Partner Excellence 2022 Award for SAP Solution Extensions in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ). The award was presented by SAP(NYSE: SAP) to the top-performing partner in the region that has made outstanding contributions to driving digital transformation for businesses that use SAP solutions. Recipients – in partnership with SAP – help customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions.
Selected from SAP’s large and diverse partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Excellence Awards are based on internal SAP sales data. A committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determine winning partners in each category according to criteria such as sales achievement and performance. Awards are presented in a variety of categories, including overall sales, innovation, technology, services and solution-specific areas.
BlackLine’s cloud solutions complement functionality provided by SAP ERP Financials and SAP S/4HANA®. The integration brings enhanced control, automation and data integrity to audit, finance and accounting departments worldwide, while ensuring that data flowing to and from SAP solutions does so through standardised processes. The BlackLine solutions are offered as SAP Solution Extensions under the following names:
- SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine
- SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, premier edition
- SAP Intercompany Financial Hub by BlackLine
Commenting on BlackLine’s award win in the APJ region, Lee Thompson, Senior Vice President APJ at BlackLine, said:
“We are delighted that SAP has recognised BlackLine with this latest Partner Excellence Award across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). BlackLine is perfectly aligned with SAP to help customers accelerate their finance transformation initiatives and to become intelligent enterprises. This is a testament to the skills and experience of both companies in developing solutions that meet the demanding requirements of finance departments, as we focus on supporting enterprise innovation and emerging stronger in a post-pandemic environment.”
“BlackLine and SAP are jointly helping customers across the APJ region to transform accounting and finance processes. In 2021, we continued our ongoing joint new customer momentum by securing new deployment contract wins across the region and we look forward to building successful business momentum in the years ahead.”
In 2021, BlackLine received the SAP Pinnacle Award for Partner of the Year – Solution Extensions – earning SAP’s highest accolade in this area.
More than a thousand of the world’s leading companies currently run BlackLine alongside SAP technology. However, BlackLine is ERP-agnostic, optimised for today’s modern enterprise with direct integration to more than 30 different leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) and source systems, an added benefit for businesses using SAP solutions with multiple ERPs.
The 2022 SAP Partner Excellence Awards were presented at the recent SAP Customer Success Summit.
About BlackLine
Companies come to BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL) because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. BlackLine’s cloud-based financial operations management platform and market-leading customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, accounts receivable and intercompany accounting processes, helping large enterprises and midsize companies across all industries do accounting work better, faster and with more control.
More than 3,800 customers trust BlackLine to help them close faster with complete and accurate results. The company is the pioneer of the cloud financial close market and recognised as the leader by customers at leading end-user review sites including Gartner Peer Insights, G2 and TrustRadius. BlackLine is a global company with operations in major business centers around the world including Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay area, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney. For more information, please visit blackline.com.
