Awards & Recognition

BlackLine Systems was named the Gold winner in the ‘Fastest-Growing Company of the Year’ category in the Best in Biz Awards 2011 – the only national business awards program judged exclusively by members of the press and industry analyst communities.

In 2011, BlackLine was named to Software Magazine’s prestigious annual list of the 500 largest software and service providers in the world. The Software 500 survey also ranked BlackLine the No. 7 fastest growing company in the $10 to $30 million revenue range, worldwide. The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises. The 2011 ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2010.

BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker won two 2011 Golden Bridge Awards in the “Women in Business and the Professions” category. Tucker came away with the prestigious titles of “Best Entrepreneur/Founder – Non Services Business” and also “Best Woman Professional – SaaS or Cloud Computing. The Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring “the best companies and executives” in every major industry and from all over the world.

BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker was honored with a 2011 Stevie® American Business Award℠ for Executive of the Year in the highly competitive Computer Software category. The Stevie American Business Awards are “the nation’s premier business awards program, recognizing outstanding performance in the workplace.” Tucker was selected from more than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry.

Global technology industry leader SAP® named BlackLine Systems a Finalist for a 2011 Pinnacle Award in the Software Solution Newcomer of the Year category. SAP’s prestigious annual awards recognize the “best and brightest” of the SAP ecosystem, honoring partners that have “excelled in developing their partnership with SAP and in driving joint customer success.” BlackLine was one of only 54 Finalists selected from a pool of more than 6,000 partners.

Technology industry research firm Lead411 ranked BlackLine No. 70 on its 2011 list of the fastest-growing, private technology companies in the United States. The Lead411 Technology 200 is based on percentage fiscal-year revenue growth over a two-year period from 2008 to 2010. In that timeframe, BlackLine grew nearly 110 percent.

BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker was named a Finalist in the Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ) ‘Women Making a Difference’ Awards – honoring “women of outstanding achievement in the Los Angeles business community.” The Finalist distinction reflects Tucker’s accomplishments in building and growing the financial software provider into the leading company in its space.

The San Fernando Valley Business Journal (SFVBJ) recognized BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker as a ‘Business Woman of the Decade.’ The most recent accolade from the SFVBJ followed Tucker’s 2009 recognition as ‘CEO of the Year for Women in Business.’ For its first-ever ‘Business Woman of the Decade’ awards, the SFVBJ was looking for “women who had significant achievements since the time they were originally honored with a ‘Women in Business’ award and had sustained success over the past 10 years.” Under Tucker’s direction, BlackLine revenues were up by more than 50 percent in both 2009 and 2010. The 2009 growth followed three sequential previous years where the company’s revenues doubled.

Technology industry research firm Lead411 named BlackLine to its list of the “Hottest Technology Companies in Southern California” for 2011. The “Hot Company” accolade came on the heels of BlackLine’s No. 126 ranking on Lead411’s 2010 Technology 500 – an annual list of the fastest-growing, private technology companies in the United States.

Global media company and leading technology industry news source Red Herring honored financial software provider BlackLine Systems as a 2011 Winner of its prestigious Red Herring 100 Global award – an annual ranking of the 100 most innovative private technology companies in the world. The global accolade comes on the heels of BlackLine earning a Red Herring 100 North America Award Winner distinction in 2010.

In 2010, leading industry publication Accounting Today named BlackLine CEO and founder Therese Tucker to its first-ever ‘10 Worth Watching’ list. The inaugural Accounting Today ‘10 Worth Watching’ list focused on women who are pioneers in a wide range of accounting-related areas, and who are “inspiring for what they offer the profession.” According to the publication, they are women “whose achievements deserve recognition by the accounting profession as a whole.”

Each year companies “innovate, overcome obstacles and systematically defy the odds.” The Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ program recognizes these efforts in its annual ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in the United States and Canada. The program includes both public and private companies and is based on percentage revenue growth over a 5-year period. BlackLine ranked No. 61 nationally and third in the Los Angeles region on the Deloitte Tech Fast 500 list in 2010; No. 111 nationally in 2011.

BlackLine has made Inc. Magazine’s listing of the Fastest-Growing U.S.-Based Private Companies for the past four years. In 2009, demonstrating 1,452.5 percent growth over the prior three years, BlackLine moved up nearly 200 spots to No. 113. BlackLine also took the No.10 position for “Women-Run Companies” in the prestigious annual ranking. The Inc. 500/5000 companies are ranked according to percentage revenue growth. BlackLine ranked No. 876 in 2011; No. 513 in 2010; No. 113 in 2009; No. 300 in 2008.

BlackLine Systems as Winner 2010, Finalist 2009, global media company and leading technology industry news source Red Herring honored financial software provider BlackLine Systems as a 2010 winner of its prestigious Red Herring 100 award – an annual ranking of the 100 most innovative private technology companies in the North America business region. BlackLine was an Award Finalist in 2009.

BlackLine Named a “Cool Vendor” April 2010. Leading global IT industry research firm Gartner named BlackLine in its “Cool Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance, 2010,” report. BlackLine is one of just three companies called out in the report which highlights vendors that “offer solutions that are certainly relevant to risk management and compliance, but might not immediately spring to mind when thinking of GRC (governance, risk and compliance) solutions.” Gartner’s list is designed to highlight “interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.” Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); and Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker Named LA Region Semi-Finalist 2009, Finalist 2008. BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker was in the running two years in a row for a prestigious Ernst & Young (E&Y) Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Greater Los Angeles Region for her accomplishments in building BlackLine from the ground up and contributing to the growth of Southern California as a center for technology innovation. E&Y evaluates nominees and their companies based on several selection criteria, such as management style/team building; corporate culture; personal and professional accomplishments; determination, ethics and drive; company profitability and fiscal resourcefulness; and product innovation. E&Y also looks at the individual’s contribution to the local community and how he or she is helping to advance the technology industry in that community.

BlackLine CEO, Company named as Finalists 2011, 2009, 2008. Based on the “outstanding achievements” of CEO and Founder Therese Tucker, BlackLine has been recognized as a Finalist in multiple categories (each year) for the Annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business: Fastest-Growing Company of the Year, Overall Company of the Year and Best Entrepreneur, Non-Services Business. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs and the companies they run – worldwide. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word “crowned,” The Stevie Awards have been hailed among the world’s premier business awards.

Finalist 2009, 2008, the AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the “top emerging companies worldwide that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technologies in on-demand computing, digital media, and greentech.” BlackLine was named a Finalist in 2009 and 2008.

AT&T, Meadwest Vaco implementations – 2009 winners. The Nucleus Technology ROI Awards recognize 10 companies each year whose skillful IT deployments have produced a “positive, bottom-line financial return on investment (ROI).” Two BlackLine Systems customers – AT&T and MeadWestvaco – were selected by independent research firm Nucleus Research as 2009 recipients of its Technology ROI Award for their implementations of BlackLine’s account reconciliation and financial close software suite. BlackLine’s implementation at AT&T resulted in a 689 percent ROI and full project payback in less than two months, as determined by Nucleus. A similar case study conducted by Nucleus showed that MeadWestvaco achieved 495 percent ROI and also saw project payback in just two months.

“One To Watch” list Dec. 15, 2008, BlackLine Systems was called out in the Dec. 15, 2008 issue of Accounting Today as “One To Watch,” an accolade given by the magazine’s editors to promising up and coming companies that demonstrate the potential to deliver superior accounting products and services for the long-term.

Best of Breed GRC, BPM Software Buyer’s Guides 2009, 2008, BlackLine’s Financial Close Software Suite has made Business Finance Magazine’s annual list of top GRC and BPM software products for the past two years. Business Finance describes its annual “Best of Breed” ranking as listing the software vendors that its editors and analysts expect to deliver the “next wave of groundbreaking technologies for corporate finance departments.”

BlackLine Ranked No. 57 in 2010, BlackLine achieved the No. 57 spot on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s (LABJ) annual ranking of the top 100 Largest Women-Owned Companies in the region. The list was published on Aug. 10, 2010.

BlackLine CEO as Finalist 2010. The Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ) held its nineteenth annual Women Making a Difference event in May 2010. The celebration honored Los Angeles-based women who “lead by example, successfully blending effective business vision with passionate commitment to positively ‘make a difference,’ both in the world of business and the communities they serve.” BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker was named a Finalist for the 2010 Award.

BlackLine achieved the No. 6 spot on the 2009 Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ) annual ranking of the top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the region; No. 7 in 2010; No. 27 in 2011.

Therese Tucker as CEO of the Year 2009. BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker was named CEO of the Year for Women in Business by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal (SFVBJ). The SFVBJ Women in Business Awards honor outstanding achievements made by local business women. Therese was recognized by the SFVBJ for her accomplishments in building BlackLine from the ground up into a profitable entity – doubling in revenues in each of the past two years. Under her leadership, BlackLine also doubled its head count in 2008, providing new jobs in the local community.

BlackLine ranked No. 4 on the 2009 San Fernando Valley Business Journal (SFVBJ) annual list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the region; No. 4 again in 2010; No. 13 in 2011.

BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker as Finalist 2009. BlackLine CEO and Founder Therese Tucker was named a Finalist in 2009 by the Technology Council of Southern California (TCOSC) for the organization’s annual CEO of the Year award. TCOSC evaluate executives and their companies based on several selection criteria, such as management style/team building; corporate culture; personal and professional accomplishments; determination, ethics and drive; company profitability and fiscal resourcefulness; and product innovation. TCOSC also looks at the individual’s contribution to the local community and how he or she is helping to advance the technology industry in that community.

BlackLine Systems as Finalist 2009. BlackLine was named a Finalist in 2009 by the Technology Council of Southern California (TCOSC) for the organization’s annual Software Company of the Year award.TCOSC evaluates companies based on several selection criteria, such as management style/team building; corporate culture; personal and professional accomplishments; determination, ethics and drive; company profitability and fiscal resourcefulness; and product innovation. They also looked at the individual’s contribution to the local community and how he or she is helping to advance the technology industry in that community.