BlackLine Innovation Showcase 2018

BlackLine has been an innovator from its very inception when it set out to solve the common but highly specific problem of the complex financial close process. The fact that BlackLine’s solutions do not fit neatly into any major software category, for example, ERP, Corporate Performance Management (CPM) or Business Intelligence (BI), speaks volumes. The software was developed to meet the specialist but not uncommon requirements of the financial close process which had simply been overlooked by other software vendors. BlackLine is an innovator because it set out to eliminate these inefficient process gaps within the financial close by automating the accounting processes and enabling them to function continuously, thereby improving the integrity of financial reporting and providing companies with greater visibility into their operations.

In this showcase we highlight three major BlackLine innovations, namely; finance modernisation, benchmarking and machine learning and, finally, robotic process automation.