Execute a faster, more accurate close—directly from SAP with Smart Close.
Monitor close activity in real time, deploy automation to reduce tedious manual processes, improve standardization, and reduce risk—all without ever leaving SAP.
Too many manual touchpoints to monitor and orchestrate?
Orchestrating, executing, and monitoring critical finance and accounting activities is complex, takes too long, and lacks transparency and standardization across the enterprise. Activities like running jobs or allocations, monitoring outcomes, and managing dependencies can slow down reporting and limit reliable data needed to make important business decisions.
BlackLine Smart Close is a purpose-built solution, embedded in SAP, that streamlines and automates SAP closing activities to save time and reduce risk.
The value of Smart Close
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Smart Close features
Shorten your financial close and ensure accurate results every time with automated workflows that reduce manual effort. Automatically verify outputs, raise alerts, make corrections, and move the closing process forward. Minimize errors and ensure regulatory compliance through standardized processes and controls embedded within SAP. Focus your finance and accounting teams on reviewing reports, analyzing results, and addressing exceptions.
Get started quickly with easy-to-use templates. Replicate activities and coordinate processes from corporate headquarters to local entities or shared service centers. Monitor all close activities in real-time directly within SAP with traffic light indicators that highlight progress, ensuring full control over each task and instant access to data for decision-making.
Smart Close is self-service and designed for finance and accounting users to own, so your teams won’t need IT bandwidth to implement process change. Single sign-on, seamless mirroring with SAP, and intuitive dashboards make Smart Close the user-friendly choice that will foster agile, continuous improvement in the close.
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Frequently asked questions
No, Smart Close integrates seamlessly with both SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, enabling a smooth transition during your migration process.
Yes, Smart Close complements BlackLine’s cloud applications by automating key financial close activities directly within SAP, allowing for a seamless end-to-end solution.
Onboarding for Smart Close is straightforward, with most organizations fully operational within weeks. Minimal IT involvement is required, thanks to BlackLine’s scalable, cloud-based platform.
Verity AI is the unifying intelligence control layer woven throughout BlackLine. This ensures a consistent and scalable experience, delivering powerful AI capabilities like agentic automation, predictive intelligence, and automated content generation seamlessly across BlackLine’s connected platform.