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BlackLine

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60549 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 69 204 578 20

BlackLine is a provider of solutions for the management of financial closing processes, accounting automation and intercompany governance.

 

BlackLine's cloud solutions for F&A are the only SAP premium qualified financial close solutions. They complement SAP solutions including SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Central Finance and many others.

Companies come to BlackLine to improve F&A efficiencies while ensuring compliance and increase real-time visibility for optimal end-to-end financial close management. We help companies transition to automated, continuous accounting by unifying their data and processes and automating repetitive work. BlackLine's solutions for SAP offer diverse functionality and direct real-time integration with SAP. We help accounting teams transform processes such as orchestrating closing tasks, balance sheet reconciliation, large volume reconciliation, journal entry management, and intercompany governance.

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IDG Servey: Modernizing Key Financial Processes Through Accounting & IT Collaboration

According to a recent IDG survey of F&A and IT executives at 250 U.S. companies, accounting and IT teams are focused more than ever on modernizing their manual processes. As finance and accounting demands increase, executives are finding that traditional compliance and close activities are getting in the way of more strategic work. Learn more about the changing roles and priorities in today's F&A.

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Gold standard for flexibility and security

Clean Core in conjunction with Cloud ERP is the new benchmark for a well-implemented architecture that combines the highest standards of security, flexibility and innovation in one approach.

Are AI and Digitalization Our Saviors?

They can make you think, the many changes
in business, technology, politics and society. And the more innovations there are, the greater the desire for orientation and clarity.

CFOs Look Ahead With Assured (Self-)confidence

Trust is a great asset that is more easily gambled away than won. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals' confidence in their companies' financial figures has increased in recent years.

Confidence in SAP financial figures

In uncertain times, it is important to know who or what you can rely on. This makes it all the more pleasing that German managers and financial professionals have increased their confidence in their companies' financial figures in recent years.

Continuous Accounting and Automation

Automation in controlling as well as in finance and accounting (F&A) is one of the major topics of recent years, as automation is the basis for many additional and new possibilities for better structuring accounting.

Digital transformation in finance

Digitization is taking hold in all business areas and is being driven forward massively in most industries. There is a need to catch up in this respect in the financial organization, where too little has been invested in automation in recent years.

ERP transformation is not just IT upgrade

Blackline Advertorial

Processes such as supply chains, warehousing, operations, trading, reporting, manufacturing, human resources, and especially finance converge in the central ERP like nerve cords in a brain. Ergo, companies strive to maintain this core tool, keeping it up to date and transforming it to a new level when necessary.

Automation does not equal value creation

CFO Column

Valid financial figures and realistic forecasts are a top priority for companies. If you want to meet this demand, you have to establish end-to-end processes and ensure that everything meshes when it comes to automation.

Moving away from the patchwork to the holistic process

Blackline Advertorial

The consequences of patchy digitization and how BlackLine's holistic approach to automation is making a difference to corporate finance departments.

The Clever Principle

The pressure to which companies and their employees are exposed is enormous and will continue to increase. Anyone who ignores this situation and assumes that they will just have to work all the harder is wrong.

CFOs want more insights - the cloud makes it possible

Automation and modern processes create the necessary flexibility and agility in finance and accounting to support the business with valuable data. This is made possible by scalable cloud technology, which also facilitates hybrid working.

Countering the shortage of skilled workers

The shortage of skilled workers in Germany continues to worsen. The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce is not the only one to observe this with great concern, with its report already showing that more than half of companies are unable to fill vacancies.

M&A Booster: Modern Accounting

Why merging IT systems is so important in mergers and how a digital accounting process can help.

Standing up to the Great Resignation

CFO Column

In the USA, the economy is struggling with a new phenomenon: almost four million employees have quit their jobs. This is the highest number ever and 24 percent higher than before the pandemic. What does this mean for our market?

Doing is better than wanting

If you want to equip your company for the future, it's better to push ahead with digitization today than tomorrow. This applies in particular to accounting - traditionally a rather conservative area of the company that likes to stick to tried and tested processes.

Digital (D)jerk

CFO Column

For those who look ahead, the lasting change brought about by Covid-19 is a jolt. Those, on the other hand, who continue to implement digitization only hesitantly will feel even greater pressure.

Better prepared for S/4 Hana with Continuous Accounting

CFO Column

One of the most important tasks for quality assurance in finance is establishing consistent and reliable processes, especially when switching to new systems such as S/4 Hana.

Continuous accounting thanks to automation and AI

Continuous accounting thanks to automation and AI

Why SAP and BlackLine complement each other perfectly and provide relief for the month-end closing process

SAP and BlackLine have been working closely together for a long time. Since last year, BlackLine's automation solutions have even been part of the exclusive group of SAP Solution Extensions and are now an integral part of SAP's product strategy for the record-to-report process. For customers, this partnership not only means more transparency and planning security, but above all an attractive range of forward-looking solutions for automated financial closing.

Driving on sight instead of navigating in the fog

CFO Column

Automation solutions provide transparency and create the basis for a modern financial statement. How real-time data and analytics are revolutionizing finance.

The time is ripe for the spreadsheet exit

CFO Column

To be successful in the battle for new employees and charismatic managers, you have to come up with a lot: Recruiting events on the golf course, job speed dating and a positive work-life balance are often no longer enough.

Digitization in finance - from hype to reality

CFO Column

The investment hurdles for new technologies are lower than ever. Modern finance and accounting solutions can be introduced quickly and used easily - the perfect time for CFOs to make trend-setting decisions.

Finance & Accounting 4.0

CFO Column

The transformation driven by digitization is not only producing new job profiles, but is also changing the profile of established professions - including employees in F&A (Finance & Accounting) departments.

Agility and the new role of the CFO

CFO Column

In complex companies, CFOs need more technology to make decisions effectively, in addition to a functioning strategy. This gives CFOs a more active role in shaping strategy and corporate governance.

Automated financial closure - Everything in safety

Automated financial closure - Everything in safety

The customer convention of SAP partner BlackLine is called: In the Black. This says it all when the CFO's closing is done on time, without overtime and with consistent data. Manual reconciliation via Excel is definitely a thing of the past in the age of digital transformation.
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Working on the SAP basis is crucial for successful S/4 conversion. 

This gives the Competence Center strategic importance for existing SAP customers. Regardless of the S/4 Hana operating model, topics such as Automation, Monitoring, Security, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Management the basis for S/4 operations.

For the second time, E3 magazine is organizing a summit for the SAP community in Salzburg to provide comprehensive information on all aspects of S/4 Hana groundwork.

Venue

More information will follow shortly.

Event date

Wednesday, May 21, and
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Early Bird Ticket

Available until Friday, January 24, 2025
EUR 390 excl. VAT

Regular ticket

EUR 590 excl. VAT

Venue

Hotel Hilton Heidelberg
Kurfürstenanlage 1
D-69115 Heidelberg

Event date

Wednesday, March 5, and
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tickets

Regular ticket
EUR 590 excl. VAT
Early Bird Ticket

Available until December 20, 2024

EUR 390 excl. VAT
The event is organized by the E3 magazine of the publishing house B4Bmedia.net AG. The presentations will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected SAP partners. The ticket price includes attendance at all presentations of the Steampunk and BTP Summit 2025, a visit to the exhibition area, participation in the evening event and catering during the official program. The lecture program and the list of exhibitors and sponsors (SAP partners) will be published on this website in due course.