SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine

By simplifying your finance operations, you can increase efficiencies and support better decision-making.
Analytics dashboard from SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by Blackline

Transforming your financial close with simpler, more efficient processes

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Standardize and streamline your financial close

By complementing and extending finance solutions from SAP, the SAP Account Substantiation and Automation application by BlackLine can help you support continuous accounting practices in the cloud and enhance key steps to increase efficiency, productivity, and data integrity.
  • Cloud deployment
  • Simplified, coordinated end-to-end closings
  • Foundation for decision-making and compliance
  • Increased IT flexibility and scalability
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Key benefits

Optimizing account reconciliation

Achieve hyper-efficient reconciliations through standardized and configurable templates, rules-based automation, and predefined workflows.

Maximizing efficiency of your financial close

Enhance key steps throughout the close cycle with an application that complements and extends your finance solution investments from SAP.

Gaining new insights in real time

Perform variance analysis of automated balance fluctuations between balance sheet and income statement accounts over different periods.

Key features

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Account reconciliation and tasks

  • Leverage templates, rules-based prioritization, automated reconciliation, and certification

  • Use predefined workflows for checks and balances

  • Sign off and certify digitally, eliminating the use of Excel files and e-mails

  • Give business users access to real-time dashboards to track processes

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Journal entry

  • Centralize and streamline the manual journal-entry process

  • Prepare journal entries, perform validations and dependent validations, and attach supporting documents

  • Provide workflows to streamline posting processes

  • Create extracts to be used by your ERP application from SAP

Transaction matching

  • Support reconciliations of high volumes of data across multiple data sources

  • Provide suggested matches and flag exceptions based on preconfigured rules

  • Support a range of SAP software data, from general ledger balances and subledgers to transactional data and currency rates

Financial review

  • Discover accounting discrepancies through automated, rules-driven workflows

  • Track balance fluctuation between balance-sheet and income-statement accounts

  • Use flexible variance rules and balance comparisons

  • Centralize analysis, reporting, controls, and workflows for compliance monitoring and support

  • Track and strengthen conformity with regulations

 

Pricing

Choose a base plan

  • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine

    • Metric:

      • User is any individual authorized to access the Cloud Service.
      • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

    • Price upon request:

      • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.
    • In blocks of 1 Users
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal

    • Metric:

      • User is any individual authorized to access the Cloud Service.
      • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

    • Price upon request:

      • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.

  • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, base edition

    • Metric:

      • User is any individual authorized to access the Cloud Service.
      • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

    • Price upon request:

      • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.
    • In blocks of 1 Users
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal

    • Metric:

      • User is any individual authorized to access the Cloud Service.
      • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

    • Price upon request:

      • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.

  • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, financial review option

    • Metric:

      • Object is a data object, representing any physical object, managed via the Cloud Service. For this Cloud Service entities are counted.
      • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

    • Price upon request:

      • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.
    • In blocks of 25 Objects
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal

    • Metric:

      • Object is a data object, representing any physical object, managed via the Cloud Service. For this Cloud Service entities are counted.
      • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

    • Price upon request:

      • Pricing structure and contract duration details are available on request.

Add-ons to enhance your plan

  • Available for SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine

    SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, test tenant

    • In blocks of 1 Tenants
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal
    • In blocks of 1 Tenants
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal
  • Available for some editions
    This add-on is available for:
    • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine
    • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, base edition

    SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, transaction matching option

    • In blocks of 100000 Transactions per month
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal
    • In blocks of 100000 Transactions per month
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal
  • Available for some editions
    This add-on is available for:
    • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine
    • SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, base edition

    SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, journal entry option

    • In blocks of 10000 Transactions per month
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal
    • In blocks of 10000 Transactions per month
    • Contract duration available upon request
    • Auto-renewal

Discover how SAP runs BlackLine

Optimizing accounting processes end to end

Discover how SAP streamlined the management of massive transaction volumes across its leased assets portfolio. By automating and simplifying some of its most labor-intensive processes, the company increased efficiency, enhanced visibility, and reduced risk.

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Featured resources

INFOGRAPHIC

Digital finance transformation with SAP and BlackLine

Learn how to future-ready your financial operations with greater accuracy, efficiency, and intelligence by extending your SAP ERP software with BlackLine solutions.

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SOLUTION DEMO

Better together: SAP and Blackline

Learn how SAP and BlackLine deliver the gold standard for record to report, achieving significant results for the office of the CFO.

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Technical and security resources

SAP Help Portal

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See what analysts are saying about SAP

The business value of SAP financial close solutions by BlackLine

Explore the research that IDC conducted into the value and benefits that organizations gained from using SAP financial close solutions by BlackLine to decrease the complexity of accounting and finance-related activities.

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