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Company’s first APAC regional data centre to enhance customer compliance with local data sovereignty requirements while providing industry-leading performance and security

BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) announced today that it has opened its first Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional data centre within a Google Cloud facility in Sydney. The investment will support customers with their data sovereignty requirements and advance their capacity to scale their finance and accounting (F&A) operations while providing the highest levels of performance, security, and resilience.

The new site in Australia has been added as part of BlackLine’s ongoing investment a complements existing BlackLine data centre infrastructure in the United States and Europe, expanding the company’s global coverage to better serve its growing customer base. Disaster recovery for regional customers will be provided through Google Cloud’s data centre infrastructure in Singapore.

BlackLine’s new data centre will provide increased capacity to address rising demand from both private and public sector organisations for the company’s continuous rollout of new solutions and services to enhance its market-leading cloud platform. The new data centre will connect IT users with business applications over the shortest path, providing a fast, secure user experience. The investment also further enables APAC companies that are sensitive to data sovereignty to maintain their data within the region, accelerating regional and global data initiatives by satisfying country-specific data needs.

“By leveraging Google Cloud, BlackLine can provide the highest levels of capacity, speed to innovation, and security,” Mac Weaver, group vice president and general manager, APAC, BlackLine, said. “This is a material investment by BlackLine to continue our focus on serving the needs of regional private and public sector customers, ensuring that their finance and accounting databases are resilient and can scale to meet industry standards today and into the future.”

“Ultimately, adding an onshore data centre in Australia will also enhance our customers’ overall experience and enable us to further support the localisation of our solutions to address ever-evolving market requirements.”

BlackLine has a large customer base both headquartered and operating in APAC and has been operating in the region for more than 12 years.

Mac Weaver, group vice president and general manager, APAC, BlackLine

About BlackLine

Companies come to BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL) because their traditional manual accounting and finance processes are not sustainable. BlackLine’s market-leading cloud platform and customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, intercompany accounting, invoice-to-cash, and consolidation processes – inspiring, powering, and guiding large enterprises and midsize businesses on their digital finance transformation journeys.

More than 4,400 customers trust BlackLine to help them close faster with complete and accurate results. The company is the pioneer of the cloud financial close market and is recognised as the leader by customers at leading end-user review sites including G2 and TrustRadius. BlackLine is a global company with operations in major business centres including Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay area, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangalore, and Singapore. For more information, visit blackline.com.