Silicon Storage Technology is a memory and non-memory products provider for high-volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. SST has been a happy BlackLine client since 2005.

“BlackLine has eliminated much of the SOX risk in our account reconciliation procedures and the task feature has the ability to do the same for all of the Word and Excel files around SEC filings so we have been well served.”

Art Whipple
Former Chief Financial Officer
Silicon Storage Techology, Inc.

About their implementation:

“Our implementation of BlackLine was fast and easy.

For a period of several weeks, we prepared for the implementation with the installation of test and production servers dedicated to BlackLine. Based on information provided by BlackLine, we generated a few flat files to capture the information regarding personnel, entities and account assignments.

The BlackLine team arrived on November 14, 2005 to install the software. They worked directly with our IT folks to load the software and resolve a few operating system details. On the 15th, they worked with our ERP people to develop a few queries to extract data from Oracle on a routine basis.

The implementation was complete in the afternoon of November 15th. We had a training class on the morning of November 16th for most of the accounting folks. The members of the team that could not attend the training session were trained by members who had been trained.

BlackLine’s team left after noon on the 16th. The physical implementation and training took about 2.5 days. Each of my employees that are responsible for account recons (most of them) were required to use BlackLine to re-reconcile 5 accounts that they had reconciled on paper or in Excel for the month of October 2005. Some of the people completed that task on the 16th but others took up to a week to allocate the time for the testing. We went live at the beginning of November and have used the system continuously since.”