Accounting automation software leader recognized for driving
digital transformation for customers in both EMEA North and APJ;
only partner in the category honored in each region
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23, 2022 /CNW/ -- BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq:
BL) today announced it won SAP® Partner Excellence 2022 awards for
SAP Solution Extensions in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) and for Best
Cloud Performance in Europe,
Middle East and Africa (EMEA) North. Awards were
presented by SAP (NYSE: SAP) to the top-performing partners in each
region that have 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.
"BlackLine has been a long-time SAP partner. Winning the
EMEA North award provides further validation that more and more
customers are seeing measurable results from automating repetitive
accounting work by implementing BlackLine technology to
streamline their financial processes," said Andy Bottrill, senior vice president EMEA at
BlackLine. "As a market leader in the Financial Operations
Management space, BlackLine can help eradicate mundane financial
tasks, allowing accountants to add value to their organizations and
focus their time on more strategic initiatives."
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.
"This award recognizes the outstanding performance by the
BlackLine team to help navigate and improve SAP customers'
end-to-end financial close process and accounting automation,"
explained Olav Frijhoff, head of software partners SAP EMEA North.
"BlackLine accelerates and complements SAP S/4HANA
and RISE with SAP."
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 standardized
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
recognized BlackLine with this latest Partner Excellence award
across Asia Pacific and
Japan. 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. We look forward to continuing to build
successful business momentum in the years ahead."
"I'm delighted to congratulate BlackLine for their achievements.
We look forward to continuing to build upon this strong
foundation of success and collaboration for our mutual customers'
success," added Cathy Ward, chief
operating officer, SAP APJ.
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, optimized 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 recognized 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.
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