Achieve the Gold Standard for Record-to-Report with SAP & BlackLine

Recently, SAP wrote about the Gold Standard for Record-to-Report, highlighting the powerful suite of solutions designed to set your finance team up for success. Combining the strength of SAP with SAP financial close solutions by BlackLine, this integrated offering streamlines and automates the entire record-to-report (R2R) process. By working seamlessly together, BlackLine and SAP help your team improve accuracy, reduce risk, and accelerate the financial close—all while delivering a smoother, more efficient experience for the Office of the CFO.

The partnership between BlackLine and SAP combines BlackLine’s market-leading financial close and intercompany automation solutions with SAP’s robust ERP systems to help finance teams modernize and streamline their record-to-report processes. 

In the true sense of ‘better together,’ SAP and BlackLine deliver a seamless, integrated experience that maximizes the value of SAP for finance teams. SAP provides the powerful ERP foundation, while BlackLine extends capabilities with purpose-built financial close and intercompany automation designed to eliminate manual work, reduce risk, and increase visibility. The native integration ensures data flows securely and efficiently between systems, so teams can work smarter, not harder, freeing up time for analysis and strategic decision-making.

BlackLine serves more than 1,300 SAP customers, including SAP. SAP's Chief Accounting Officer, Dr. Christopher Sessar, discussed how SAP Finance is improving end-to-end accounting processes with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine to gain greater efficiency, improved transparency, real-time reporting, and risk reduction.

Many SAP customers are on a transformation journey as they look to future-ready their finance operations. This often includes moving to the cloud and migrating to SAP S/4HANA to take advantage of enhanced functionality, real-time data access, and greater scalability.

As part of this shift, finance and accounting teams are rethinking legacy processes and embracing solutions like BlackLine that drive efficiency, automation, and control. This transformation is not just about technology upgrades—it's about building a foundation that enables agility, improves decision-making, and positions the organization for long-term success.

Deploying solutions like those offered by BlackLine can support a company’s transformation from the very beginning by adding immediate value, driving momentum, and providing confidence and control around financial data accuracy—all of which are critical to broader financial transformation.

While there are use cases where specific tasks in the R2R process can be performed directly in SAP, leading companies turn to BlackLine because it’s purpose-built to handle the complexity, volume, and control required for today’s modern finance operations.

BlackLine delivers leading practices, offering capabilities like real-time reconciliation, automated workflows, and embedded controls that go beyond what’s available in core ERP functionality. When BlackLine and SAP work together, they create the Gold Standard for the R2R ecosystem—combining SAP’s robust transactional backbone with BlackLine’s specialized automation to drive accuracy, efficiency, and intelligence. This approach reduces risk and manual effort and empowers finance teams to close faster and focus on more strategic activities.

BlackLine and SAP are better together because of the combined strength of SAP’s ERP foundation and BlackLine’s purpose-built financial close automation, helping companies achieve the Gold Standard for record-to-report.

Are you ready to achieve the Gold Standard?

BlackLine is offering limited engagements with SAP experts to help you build your business case and chart your path to achieving the Gold Standard with BlackLine and SAP.