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BlackLine Receives SAP® North America Partner Excellence Award 2020 For SAP Solution Extension Growth Cloud
Accounting automation software leader recognized for driving digital transformation for customers LOS ANGELES, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackLine, Inc.
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[{"type":"text","content":"Accounting automation software leader recognized for driving digital transformation for customers\n\n\nLOS ANGELES, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) today announced it is the recipient of an SAP® North America Award for Partner Excellence for SAP Solution Extension Growth — Cloud. Awards were presented by SAP to the top-performing SAP partners in the North America region that have made outstanding contributions to driving customers' digital transformations. Recipients of this year's awards have been – in partnership with SAP – helping customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"Global businesses are increasingly recognizing that their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable and that they can close faster with more visibility, automation and confidence by adding BlackLine to their SAP software landscapes, especially those running on SAP S/4HANA® or migrating to SAP S/4HANA,\" said Marc Huffman, BlackLine's president and chief operating officer. \"This award validates the momentum and long-term potential that SAP sees in BlackLine as a key partner.\"\nSelected from SAP's wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Excellence Awards were based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria such as sales achievement and performance. Awards were presented in a variety of categories, including overall sales, innovation, technology, services and solution-specific areas. \n\"BlackLine helps businesses streamline the financial close process by providing substantiation, accounting automation and intercompany governance within a controlled, end-to-end solution,\" said Martin Naraschewski, senior vice president, global head of Line of Business Finance for SAP. \"By offering BlackLine's cloud-based solutions as SAP Solution Extensions, we are enabling our global customers to adopt and benefit from leading financial close technology that brings them added value, particularly for those running on SAP S/4HANA®. It's exciting to see the momentum for BlackLine's solutions building and we are enthusiastic about the future of our partnership.\"\nThe BlackLine pla...