BlackLine drives digital finance transformation by empowering organizations with accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations. BlackLine’s comprehensive Studio360 platform addresses mission-critical processes, including record-to-report and invoice-to-cash, enabling unified and accurate data, streamlined and optimized processes, and real-time insight through visibility, automation, and AI, officials say. The company is an SAP platinum partner offering solution extensions specifically chosen to complement SAP’s software. BlackLine provides robust record-to-report and intercompany governance capabilities that have undergone a premium qualification process exclusive to SAP solution extensions.

In October, officials announced the company had received an SAP Global Finance and Spend Management Award for Partner Excellence 2025 for Partner Solution Success. Awards were presented by SAP to top-performing partners for outstanding contributions related to Finance and Spend Management solutions. Award winners, in partnership with SAP, help customers innovate, gain rapid results, grow sustainably, and run more simply.

"Our partnership with SAP is built on empowering finance leaders to drive strategic value," according to Owen Ryan, CEO of BlackLine. "As the trusted partner to the Office of the CFO, we help our mutual customers transform their processes and deliver the real-time, trusted data they need to navigate a complex global landscape. This award celebrates the incredible results our customers are achieving, and we look forward to continuing our innovation together, infusing trusted AI and intelligence across finance transformation."

Nominations are based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee then determines winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria such as sales achievement and performance. More than 1,200 of the world’s leading companies currently run BlackLine alongside SAP to achieve future-ready finance.

“The SAP Partner Excellence Award in Finance and Spend Management is conferred upon partners who exemplify innovation, strategic execution, and an unwavering commitment to customer success in enhancing financial performance and optimizing spend management,” notes Devesh Sharma, Group Vice President for Ecosystem, SAP Finance and Spend Management. “SAP is honored to recognize these distinguished partners, whose trusted collaboration delivers measurable value and drives transformative outcomes for customers worldwide.”

Earlier in the year, officials announced that BlackLine had achieved the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System. The announcement coincided with the launch of Verity, a new suite of embedded, auditable AI tools. Built upon the trusted foundation of BlackLine’s Studio360 platform, the ISO 42001 certification validates the robust governance framework and "Control Layer for AI" that BlackLine has built into its platform, officials say. The certification ensures that the company's AI is developed and managed with the highest standards of ethics, transparency, and accountability.

"Talk about trusted AI is easy; proving it is what matters," Ryan said at the time of the announcement. "This ISO 42001 certification is that proof. It’s the independent validation of the principles we've built into our Studio360 platform and our new Verity AI. We are providing our customers with a verifiable foundation of governance and trust, so they can lead the AI revolution in finance with complete confidence."

Since its founding in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls financial close and accounting processes. The firm has a presence in 12 countries and more than 4,400 customers across multiple industries. BlackLine opened its Hacienda office in 2019.

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