Trust is in the BalanceTM

BlackLine for SAP®Transform Your Financial Close

Trust is in the BalanceTM

BLACKLINE FOR SAP®

The First and Only SAP Endorsed Business Solution for Financial Close

BlackLine complements SAP to automate and control the financial close process, all delivered in the cloud. We work with

SAP customers of all sizes, across all industries, and around the world. Our 1,400+ clients range from the Fortune 500 to

the Inc. 5000, across 100+ countries, including some of the world’s most recognized and successful SAP customers like

Coca-Cola, Under Armour, eBay, and Dow Chemical.

Our Solution for SAP

We complement SAP by streamlining and automating key aspects of the financial close, Transaction Matching, Account

Reconciliation, Consolidation Integrity and more. We’ve achieved incredible results for SAP customers: 70% faster close

cycles, accounting efficiency doubled, and a more satisfied and engaged finance and accounting organization. And for

finance leaders, finally, a real-time picture of the current state of the company’s financials.

Our Partnership

BlackLine is proud to be the first and only SAP endorsed business solution for Financial Close. The BlackLine Financial

Close Suite for SAP® Solutions provides our customers with the confidence that they’re adding value to their SAP investment

with the most integrated, most complementary, most usable, and most trusted financial close solution available for SAP.

Our embedded BlackLine Connector for SAP integrates with every SAP product and solution: from SAP S/4HANA to SAP

ERP, to SAP R/3. And we’re continually co-innovating with SAP to deliver powerful value and ongoing alignment.

“As far as reconciliations and accounting functions were

concerned, BlackLine took care of that in one stop.”

—TOM HOOVER, SENIOR MANAGER OF FINANCE SYSTEMS, EBAY

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The Future of Finance and Accounting

Finance and accounting organizations that leverage automation to reduce manual effort and who use insight to adjust

process and performance are better positioned to be more strategic, agile, and responsive. They position themselves

as leaders within their organization.

Finance organizations are retooling and modernizing their financial close at an accelerating pace. Leading analyst firm,

Gartner Research1, notes that through 2019, nearly half of enterprise finance organizations will employ solutions to improve

these core financial close processes — and they predict the majority will be delivered in the cloud. Yet today, three-quarters2

of organizations are still using spreadsheets and homegrown tools to perform account reconciliations, a critical part of the close.

A Journey to Finance and Accounting Transformation

BlackLine immediately enhances existing Record-to-Report processes with unparalleled automation — achieving

significant benefits from faster close times to reduced accounting effort for SAP customers. And, uniquely, BlackLine

provides a pathway to the future: Continuous Accounting — shifting traditional end of period tasks to continuous

day-to-day activities, enabling additional benefits, from workload distribution, to point-in-time reporting.

Transformational Benefits for SAP Customers

• Faster close: We help SAP customers automate key steps in the financial close process that are traditionally slowed

down by spreadsheets and manual effort. With BlackLine, tasks like reconciliations, intercompany processes, and

transaction matching are streamlined and accelerated.

• Greater efficiency: Our intelligent transaction matching, journal entry management, and workflows are all designed

to be used continuously, through the period, rather than just at period end. The result is more balanced workloads

throughout the period, and improved employee productivity and engagement.

• Reduced risk: We dramatically reduce risk of misstatement or control failure risk, while significantly increasing trust

and confidence by enhancing controls and centralizing the audit trail and documentation, while ensuring processes

are standardized, repeatable, and, where possible, automated.

• Increased visibility: Organizations using BlackLine gain point-in-time visibility into financial results, ensuring everyone

from individual contributors, to managers, to the CFO all see the latest results, in real-time — no more guessing.

• Low TCO: Our native cloud solution lowers ongoing maintenance and effort. With managed security, unparalleled

uptime, automated updates, and a consistent user experience, we lower IT effort, and enhance end user productivity.

Powering the Financial Close for SAP

Products and Solutions

BlackLine fits within and across your financial close, integrating with your SAP investments every step of the way by

providing matching and reconciliation and auto-certification using configurable business rules, process and workflow

management for reconciliations organized around accounts and transactions, and further individual close optimizations

such as intercompany processes, variances, and consolidation integrity.

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Transactional Accounting

Transaction Matching

Streamlines and automates detail-heavy reconciliations, such as bank reconciliations, credit card matching, intercompany

reconciliations, and invoice-to-PO matching—all in one centralized workspace.

Journal Entry

A complete journal entry management system that enables the creation, review, and approval with electronic certification

together with supporting documentation, and can be posted to the SAP general or sub ledger systems with pre-posting

validation to catch entry or logic errors, eliminating ledger rejections.

Intercompany Hub

A clearinghouse for intercompany transfer agreements and transactions, the Intercompany Hub centrally interfaces with

SAP and other systems, creating intercompany transactions and distributing data and automated journal entries from a

centralized system.

Entity Close

Account Reconciliations

Standardizes the reconciliation process by enabling accountants to verify the correctness and appropriateness of their

balance sheets with a streamlined method. Accountants can quickly compare general ledger, bank, and other data,

investigate discrepancies, attach supporting documentation, and take required actions from an intuitive, unified workspace.

Variance Analysis

The monitoring and analysis of account balance fluctuations using rules to identify accounts whose balances fall outside

of thresholds so that they can be investigated.

Corporate Close

Consolidation Integrity Manager

Automates the process of comparing multiple ledgers to a consolidation system like SAP BPC, reducing consolidation

risk and effort.

“We revisited our policies and processes and refining them wasn’t

going to deliver the further productivity improvements we needed.

Now, with BlackLine, we just wait for the books to close to validate

balances, and then the reconciliations are done.”

—PAT WITHROW, ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR, DOW CHEMICAL

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BlackLine-SAP Connector: Embedded Certified Real-Time Integration

Accountants

SAP FINANCIAL CLOSING COCKPIT

Approvers Controller / CFO Auditors

Accounts reconciliation

Transaction matching

Intercompany hub

Journal entry

Variance analysis

Consolidation integrity

Task management

Automated matching

Process and workflow

Auto-account certification

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REAL-TIME INTEGRATIONBLACKLINE EMBEDDED CONNECTOR

Our completely packaged integration supports the full

range of SAP data, from general ledger balances, to sub-

ledgers, transactional data, and currency rates, and even

provides point-in time snapshots to improve auditability

and traceability, and is of course extensible.

Using certified integration that’s validated against SAP product

standards, we securely process your account reconciliations

in our cloud, while providing real-time journal posting back

to your SAP deployment — no customizations required, all

working with SAP’s security model.

Because we co-innovate with SAP as an SAP endorsed business

solution, you benefit with lower risk, faster delivery, and future

integration innovations from our joint team.

Native Integration with Your SAP Landscape

BlackLine works with your SAP and non-SAP landscape, across instances and deployment models – so whether you’re

running SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, or SAP R/3, plan to upgrade your SAP instance in the future, running on-premise or

cloud, you can be confident that BlackLine will work with your current and future SAP environments.

Complements Your Current

and Future SAP Investments

• S/4HANA Finance. Our native integration with SAP S/4HANA and the SAP HANA platform provides powerful

real-time integration with General Ledger and transactional detail for account reconciliation automation,

and the confidence of a snapshot of reconciled data for auditability.

• SAP ERP, SAP ECC and SAP R/3. BlackLine’s embedded native connector fully integrates with General Ledger,

Sub Ledger balances, with no customization required to automate transaction and account reconciliation.

• SAP BPC. Organizations’ running SAP BPC benefit from BlackLine’s accelerated close and consolidation integrity

management, reducing risk in the consolidation process, and accelerating the flow of data into the planning process.

• SAP Financial Closing Cockpit. BlackLine works with the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit task framework to optimize

and automate matching and reconciliation for accounts and transactions, streamline intercompany processes,

variances, and ensure integrity.

• SAP Central Finance. For organizations running S/4HANA Finance in a Central Finance configuration, BlackLine

integrates with the S/4HANA instance, as well as underlying SAP and non-SAP data sources, providing complete

reach for reconciliation.

“With BlackLine, we knew that we weren’t simply buying a

product to help our business with account reconciliations. We

were partnering with a company that was invested in improving

our overall financial close process from beginning to end.”

—MARK KOOLIS, POWER SEGMENT ASSISTANT CONTROLLER, HUBBELL INCORPORATED

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Built for the Cloud

Native Cloud

Our solution was built from day one entirely in the cloud. The result is a solution that delivers what we call the Power of One

— benefits that simply can’t be achieved with on-premise designed reconciliation software. It’s where built from the ground

up design principles create transformative benefits for finance:

Hybrid Cloud

BlackLine’s cloud seamlessly works with your on-premise or cloud SAP investments, and other non-SAP investments,

whether cloud or on-premise. More and more SAP customers are using hybrid cloud to enjoy the benefits of cloud

solutions without having to completely modify their existing SAP environment. With hybrid cloud, SAP customers can

adapt their systems flexibly to the rapid changes in markets without having to invest in their own IT resources and the

usual maintenance and support expenses. The hybrid cloud guarantees dynamism, transparency, security, and efficiency,

and its why Gartner predicts that 50% of IT departments will adopt cloud using a hybrid approach by 2017.

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Leading Customers Run SAP and Close with BlackLine

With over 400+ joint successes with SAP — across a broad range of SAP landscapes

and environments, we’re confident we can help you transform your financial close.

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Increased Accounting

Efficiency 55%

Accelerated Financial

Close by 70%

Auto-certified more than

60% of Accounts

Cut Financial Close

by 3 Days

With BlackLine complementing their global SAP deployment, Coca-

Cola increased employee efficiency by 55% by automating manual

and routine reconciliation. Automation enabled Coca-Cola to reassign

accounting resources to focus on discrepancies and analysis, and saved

millions in staff avoidance. They improved controls while gaining global

transparency of the entire reconciliation process.

Reduced number of employees involved in reconciliation by 55%

Saved $0.6 million per year through increased productivity

Improved controls and standardized reconciliation process

Gained global transparency of the reconciliation process

“When I think about BlackLine and SAP, seamless,

transparent, greater visibility, and increased

control are all words that come to mind”

—EAMONN MATTHEWS, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING, COCA-COLA

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Under Armour chose BlackLine’s accounting solution because of its

integration and partnership with SAP. Optimizing accounting processes is a

journey. They solved their most pressing concerns with BlackLine Account

Reconciliations. “While the solution has some great added functionalities

we are taking advantage of now, an account reconciliations application was

our most immediate need at the time — and BlackLine solved that for us.”

Reduced time spent reconciling accounts by over 3 days

Staff freed to add value to broader business

Added ability to expand accounting teams to new global offices

Automatically imports data from SAP every 30 minutes

“With BlackLine, we can now complete our end-to-end

reconciliations process several business days earlier than before”

—MOLLY E. BOYLE, CPA, SENIOR MANAGER OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING AT UNDER ARMOUR

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SAP and BlackLine: Transform Your Financial Close

We’re proud to help SAP customers of every size transform their financial close, and as the only SAP endorsed business

solution for Financial Close, we’re proud to co-innovate with SAP for your success.

At BlackLine, we’re ready to help you elevate trust in your close, streamline your finance operations, and empower your

team with the only Financial Close cloud platform that seamlessly works with SAP to improve accounting efficiency and

engagement. Join SAP and BlackLine for the next wave of finance transformation.

Trusted

by 1,400+ Organizations Globally

Trusted

by 130,000 Finance and Accounting Professionals

Trusted

in Over 100 Countries

Trusted

as an SAP Endorsed Business Solution

1 Gartner, Enhanced Finance Controls and Automation Fills the Gaps in ERP and CPM Processes2 Robert Half | Financial Executives Research Foundation