BlackLine vs SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

• Improves performance on month-end related reconciliations.
• A unified platform that is optimized across the Finance org providing visibility and provides a paperless and improved reconciliation process.
• Great for transparency and visibility across the team
• User-friendly interface that is easy to utilize

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• SAP BPC is real time data. You can send information into the system and see it reflected in your reports immediately. Other systems may require a manual push into a reporting system.
• SAP BPC is a shared reporting tool, so multiple users can be working in a model/environment at the same time, real time. This is especially helpful if your workbooks incorporated multiple processes requiring multiple users to get into the same model.
• SAP BPC is a powerful tool designed to help all facets of the company, from cash flow to capital expenditures to headcount management to financial planning to consolidation.

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• Improve the customization of auto-certification timing.
• It would be great to have a screen where a preparer and approver can see their workload without having to switch between roles.
• Cases should be accessible to more users automatically, not just system admins.

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• Being from a law firm, the system needed a lot of custom tailoring in order to fit our full needs (although many companies could say the same thing). Although the ability to highly customize the system to the company's needs is a positive, it frequently results in the system responding in unexplainable and unrepeatable ways which negatively impacts and slows the budget process. Because of the sporadic nature and variety of the issues, we are unable to repeat them on cue and therefore cannot nail down a solution.

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• We were short-staffed by 3 full-time accounting positions compared to normal staffing levels. Due to the efficiencies from using Blackline we've been operating with 2 fewer senior accounting positions, which is saving us roughly $100k-$120k. We're not sure that we need to fill them now. I think that's a pretty good ROI.

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• When originally implemented (as the predecessor product Outlooksoft) BPC took ASU from trying to budget and forecast for a 2B enterprise out of spreadsheets and into a far more consolidated tool. It has saved us considerable time over the years and paid for itself several times over.
• BPC also allows us to present our budget in multiple different views to support management, board and departmental reporting.

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