SAP Accounting Automation Solutions by BlackLine
SAP includes BlackLine in its end-to-end offering for record-to-report.
Achieve the Gold Standard for Record-to-Report with SAP & BlackLine
BlackLine complements and extends your SAP environment- including SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP ECC, SAP Advanced Financial Closing, and SAP Group Reporting. By replacing time-consuming, manual processes performed outside the ERP with a controlled, automated, and strategic end-to-end close.
With trusted AI embedded across SAP Accounting Automation solutions by BlackLine, SAP customers achieve a more accurate and efficient financial close. Intelligent automation eliminates manual spreadsheets, accelerates close cycles, and minimizes compliance risk, helping finance organizations deliver the gold standard for record-to-report with total confidence.
Better Together: SAP & BlackLine
SAP and BlackLine are better together—delivering the gold standard for record-to-report and driving future-ready financial operations. BlackLine is the only SAP Solution Extension partner in the financial close and intercompany space, making this partnership truly unique.
Our solutions were specifically chosen by SAP to extend SAP ERP and other record-to-report solutions by offering exceptional capabilities for finance and accounting teams. These solutions have undergone a premium qualification process exclusive to SAP Solution Extensions. Additionally, BlackLine is Clean Core certified by SAP and supports customers by maintaining a clean, stable, and upgrade-friendly SAP landscape.
BlackLine serves more than 1,200 SAP customers, including SAP. Discover how SAP is automating and simplifying some of its most labor-intensive accounting processes with the SAP Solution Extensions from BlackLine.
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Honors & Awards
SAP AND BLACKLINE BLOG SERIES
Driving Future-Ready Financial Operations
SAP & BlackLine: Improving the End-To-End Financial Close Process, Together
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Understanding the Many Applications of “Reconciliation” – How SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine Complements SAP S/4HANA
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How SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine Complements an SAP Central Finance Deployment
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The Universal Journal & Journal Entry Functionality in SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine Explained
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SAP ERP Solutions Have Intercompany Reconciliation Functionality (ICR). Why Would I Need SAP Intercompany Financial Hub by BlackLine?
5-minute read
Making Sense of Transaction Matching: How SAP Solution Extensions by BlackLine Solutions Enhance SAP Innovations
3-minute read
SAP Intercompany Financial Hub by BlackLine & SAP S/4HANA Intercompany Matching & Reconciliation, How they Work Together
6-minute read
Managing Financial Close Tasks: An Ideal Combination of SAP Solutions
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Matching & Reconciliation, How They Work Together
6-minute read
Why BlackLine Should Be Part of Every SAP Transformation
5-minute read
SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, financial review option
3-minute read
The Gold Standard for record to report with SAP and SAP Accounting Automation Solutions by BlackLine
4-minute read
More than 1,200 SAP Customers Trust BlackLine to Transform Their Financial Operations
621%
three-year return on investment
12-month
payback period
7.9 million
average annual benefit per organization
We recently did a larger implementation of a software platform called BlackLine that we use in the accounting space, and it's literally enabled us to save tens of thousands of hours of what was very manually intensive work because we can now automate it.
Kathryn Mikells
CFO, ExxonMobil
WATCH
The ExxonMobil Success Story (2:04)
WATCH
Harman Success Story (2:37)
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
SAP solutions provide a powerful foundation for your financial data and core processes. However, many critical financial close and intercompany activities—such as account reconciliations, intercompany governance, transaction matching, financial review, and journal entry management—still occur in spreadsheets and outside of the ERP.
BlackLine complements your SAP environment by automating and streamlining these manual processes. We provide dedicated, controlled solutions that unify data and tasks, giving you end-to-end visibility and freeing your team to focus on analysis and strategy instead of manual data manipulation.
Whether you’re running SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA Cloud, BlackLine has secure and pre-configured connectors to ensure seamless data transfer between your ERP environment and our cloud solutions.
BlackLine complements SAP by automating and streamlining manual processes occurring outside of the ERP. Implementing BlackLine before or during your S/4HANA migration also reduces project risk, cleanses data for a clean cutover, and frees up critical resource capacity.
BlackLine is the only SAP Solution Extension partner in the record-to-report space. Our solutions are included in the SAP product roadmap and undergo rigorous premium qualification testing, offering an unmatched level of native integration, reliability, and security.
As AI becomes increasingly embedded within finance and accounting operations, SAP and BlackLine are exploring ways to help customers reduce the time and effort required for financial close and record-to-report (R2R) activities, while maintaining the highest standards of integrity, accuracy, and compliance.
Today, BlackLine delivers SAP premium-qualified AI capabilities across our solutions, helping customers detect anomalies, generate predictive insights, and accelerate critical R2R processes.
Building on the gold standard our partnership has established for record-to-report, SAP and BlackLine are exploring how SAP Joule and BlackLine Verity AI work together to further enhance the customer experience. By combining our technologies and expertise, we aim to help finance teams drive greater efficiency, productivity, and business value.
We look forward to sharing more updates as our joint AI innovation continues to evolve.