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BlackLine picks up SAP Pinnacle Partner of the Year Award
Wed, 26th May 2021
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BlackLine has secured a win in the SAP Pinnacle Awards, recognising the company's contributions as an SAP partner.

BlackLine was named the winner of the SAP Pinnacle Partner of the Year Award in the Solution Extensions category.

BlackLine, which operates as an SAP platinum partner with a global reseller agreement, enables SAP to offer BlackLine's cloud-based accounting solutions as part of the SAP Solution Extensions.

The company provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, accounts receivable and intercompany accounting processes

According to BlackLine, the win illustrates the company's track record in technology innovation, as well as customer and market success with SAP solutions.

BlackLine CEO Marc Huffman adds that the award also demonstrates the strength of the company's partnership with SAP as they deliver solutions to solve both business and technology challenges.

BlackLine's automation platform integrates with SAP ERP Financials and SAP S/4HANA. The company states that the integration improves automation, control, and data integrity to finance and accounting departments. Further, BlackLine is ERP agnostic and integrates with more than 30 different source systems.

The Los Angeles-based company works with nearly 3,500 customers and has regional headquarters in Sydney, Singapore, and London.

“SAP and BlackLine help customers understand the value of adopting solution extensions from BlackLine as part of the early stages of their SAP S/4HANA and digital finance transformation journeys,” Huffman says.

As a result, we continue to see growth, adding new logos around the globe. As businesses embark on their transformation journey to the intelligent enterprise, BlackLine is ready to partner with SAP to engage and enable the office of the CFO to lead and drive transformation.

BlackLine's cloud-based solutions are offered as SAP Solution Extensions as SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine; SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, premier edition; and SAP Intercompany Financial Hub by BlackLine.

The SAP Pinnacle Awards recognised 21 SAP partners from a total of more than 20,000 partners worldwide. Winners and finalists in 28 categories were chosen based on recommendations from SAP, customer feedback and performance indicators.

SAP SE's CEO Christian Klein comments, “Our partners are key to turning the intelligent enterprise into reality.

“Despite challenging times, our ecosystem has once again demonstrated its innovation power, dedication and excellence in helping our customers unlock new ways of running their business. Together, we continue to deliver quality solutions, services and experiences, allowing our customers to thrive and succeed with SAP solutions.