LOS ANGELES, LONDON,SINGAPORE and SYDNEY – Feb. 14, 2019 – Leading financial controls and automation software provider BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) continues to expand its customer base globally, adding a broad range of both large and midsize companies to its client roster during the fourth quarter of 2018.
Altogether, 137 net new customers spanning North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and the Asia-Pacific region (ASIAPAC) signed on to deploy BlackLine’s cloud platform. The company also booked the first deals through its recently announced reseller agreement with SAP, with at least one coming in from each of the three regions.
Among the new customers to come on board in North America in Q4 were American National Insurance, Avaya, California Dairies, EnerSys, Las Vegas Valley Water District, Lime, Michigan State University and Nu Skin. In EMEA new customers included Marquard & Bahls, METRO Cash & Carry, Micro Focus and Nilfisk. And in ASIAPAC, Ausgrid, Fortescue Metals Group and South32 Group Operations were among those that signed on to use BlackLine during the fourth quarter of the year.
Over 222,000 people across more than 2,600 companies presently use BlackLine’s products and solutions to help increase accountant productivity, reduce risk, elevate controls and compliance functions and modernize their Finance & Accounting operations. In 2018 alone, more than 187 million reconciliations were auto-certified and over 3.5 billion transactions matched by BlackLine customers.