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    BlackLine

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ABlackLine's cloud-based financial operations management platform unifyies data and processes, automating repetitive tasks and enhancing accountability. BlackLine solutions for financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting support large enterprises and midsize companies.N/A

    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATagetik is a corporate performance management solution that unifies budgeting, financial planning, consolidation and management reporting. Tagetik is offered as SaaS, on a private cloud, or on-premise, and can migrate between deployments as needed.N/A
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    BlackLineWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    BlackLineWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    BlackLine
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    Wolters Kluwer
    Chose Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    We use Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetikfor budgeting, reporting, and consolidation already for a couple of years. And to speed up our (monthly / quarterly) close, we recently implemented the transaction matching and account reconciliation modules from Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik. …
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    I have not used another consolidation software like Tagetik previously.
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    BlackLineWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    BlackLine
    8.8
    92 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.8
    44 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Financial data consolidation9.047 Ratings8.338 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports8.765 Ratings8.236 Ratings
    Multi-currency management8.849 Ratings8.333 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails9.181 Ratings9.434 Ratings
    Customizable Workflows8.662 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings9.436 Ratings
    Minority Ownership00 Ratings8.629 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings9.642 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    BlackLine
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    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.1
    10 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    BlackLine
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    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    6.8
    22 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings6.222 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings6.922 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings6.914 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    BlackLine
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    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.3
    14 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.712 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.310 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    BlackLine
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    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    BlackLine
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    9.1
    21 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.521 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.420 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.421 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.815 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    BlackLine
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    6.1
    9 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    BlackLine
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    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.4
    48 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.142 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings8.239 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings8.433 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings8.945 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    BlackLine
    -
    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.7
    48 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
    Management Reporting00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings8.748 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.733 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
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    BlackLine
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    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    8.2
    31 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings8.624 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings8.322 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of BlackLine and Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Feature
    BlackLine
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    Ratings
    Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    9.4
    45 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Flat file integration00 Ratings9.339 Ratings
    Excel data integration00 Ratings9.643 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings9.330 Ratings
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BlackLineWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (280 ratings)
    8.7
    (49 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (22 ratings)
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    3.7
    (52 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (166 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BlackLineWolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BlackLine
    BlackLine is well-suited for us when it comes to the bank reconciliations, as our systems feed right into BlackLine, and the various match sets reconcile the data effortlessly. BlackLine would work to its fullest extent if all departments utilized it, so you can take advantage of all the various products that are available.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    Scenarios where CCH Tagetik is suitable is when a company have large amounts of data and want to transform, consolidate, store and produce reporting in different year, period etc with complex calculations and allocation. Tagetik is the tool for you in this case and it's very flexible in terms of creating your own business rule, calculation and reporting options with a user friendly interface. I have not thought about scenarios where it is not appropriate to use tagetik yet as the tool covers small and large business financial needs
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    Pros
    BlackLine
    • Segregation of duties - allows for a formal way to ensure that there is a separate preparer/approver for a given task or reconciliation.
    • Provides visibility - having account reconciliation data in one place has automated processes that were once very manual, and involved multiple team members aggregating data.
    • Streamlines communication and status of close - having all tasks in one place, in the same format gives us the visibility needed to manage our close process, and know the status of items that are still pending and open for action. This was previously a game of telephone between staff, managers, and leaders, and now has been automated via tasks.
    • Automation/Optimization - BlackLine provides a lot of opportunity to automate certain reconciliations based on thresholds, rules, and templates. This allows the team to use that time for researching actual issues, and keeping our balance sheet reconciliations clean.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Processes are clearly described in CCH Tagetik ; users can easily find where they are and which action they have to make
    • Interaction with Excel is really fluid ; the Excel add-in is easy to deploy and to updgrade, in the hand of users. It is reliable provided the internet connection is fast.
    • Managing hierachies is obvious in CCH Tagetik. Hierarchies are fundamental for a good reporting ; CCH Tagetik has obviously a deep experience of this feature.
    • SaaS : our experience with CCH Tagetik is of only 1 year, but it technically performs well, the system is reponsive, no shut-down, and updates (every quarter) do not disturb production.
    • AIH seems to be able to manage very large quantity of data, and to provide advanced analysis functionalities. We did not have time to explore them.
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    Cons
    BlackLine
    • On the home page I can see Team Assignments usually first time not My assignments.
    • JV posting is slow.
    • Many error emails about failed JV with the same context.
    • We receive emails about task certification. Can we receive the list of reconciliations monthly?
    • Posted/prepared JVs cannot be deleted from the to-do list (there is only one extraordinary case, where we had a BL issue and the JV was booked but without a Document ID).
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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Online help and manual is a bonus but could be improved e.g. the clarity of English explanations.
    • Improved Excel compatibility e.g. formula driven reporting and dash boarding.
    • Mobile phone connectivity e.g. launching a consolidation from a Wolters Kluwer CCH® Tagetik app.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BlackLine
    BlackLine has made our finance team more effective and accurate. Our current ERP system is unable to do any sort of financial activities currently being done with our BlackLine licenses. Prior to BlackLine everything was done manually through Excel and stored in binders. There was no option for a paperless process. We are now 100% paperless in our close process, freeing up time, space and saving money on office supplies.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    Because in my oppinion Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik is one of the most usable tools for consolidation, planning (controlling) and reporting. Its usability is quite easy and innovative. I like the data entry method for the customers with its workflow and tasks, quite easy way to implement a co pilot. And i like the reporting tool, with a lot of customization opportunities.
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    Usability
    BlackLine
    BlackLine could use a little work in getting around the system. The interface is not without its issues including lots of scrolling up and down and a lack of using the entire screen. Importing of the initial setup data could be better defined and reimporting data to add additional fields could pose an issue of overwriting data in a negative way.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    Surprisingly, this platform is a powerhouse ERP system. However, given time, when more and more organization is able to identify how powerful this tool can be, CCH Tagetik is able to stand as a competitive advantage to many of the Financial industry of today. Although, it needs time to understand the logic behind how CCH Tagetik is formed and setup, once it is known to the user, it is an easy day to day operations with minimal maintenance.
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    Reliability and Availability
    BlackLine
    We never experienced an outage with BlackLine. The only time the system was unavailable was during planned outages for updates and upgrades usually Friday evening after 6pm pst until Saturday morning at 6am pst.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    CCH Tagetik has alwyas been there in case we need help. In almost 20 years of commercial relationship, I have no evidence of times in which they were not available to answer a question or to solve an issue linked to their products, timely and efficiently.
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    Performance
    BlackLine
    BlackLine performs rather quickly considering the amount of data we were pushing in and out of it.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    As you can see, speed depends on the applications but also on the hardware that runs them. As far as CCH Tagetik improved, we saw the benefit of a cloud-based solution which could solve many speed performance issues.
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    Support Rating
    BlackLine
    Since implementing Blackline, our support team has had quite a bit of turnover, and as such, it has taken longer than normal to get meaningful resolutions to our issues. The people we have worked with have all been great and responsive. However, the turnover has definitely had an impact on our experience.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    I got very quick respons. After very little mail iterations, they decided to have online meeting to look together with me to the issue. They tried to solve it during the meeting. I had the impression that the customer care person really knew the system and was able to ask help from other colleagues when needed
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    In-Person Training
    BlackLine
    No answers on this topic
    Wolters Kluwer
    the training was not bad, but we got more training from working with the consultants. This because it is based on our system
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    Online Training
    BlackLine
    Trainings are available for all topics on the BlackLine U portal. These were incredibly helpful when first starting with BlackLine to get the hang of it. Trainings are useful for any module. I have personally used this to teach myself how to use the tasks and variance modules, which are now fully utilized by my organization. The support team is also very helpful in training our team on anything additional we have needed.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    Online training is the only form of training we could deploy during the pandemic. This service has been nonethless delivered with the same standards and the same results of the traditional training procedures.
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    Implementation Rating
    BlackLine
    You will have to meet up with your final users, approver, internal auditor and accounting policy holder. Everyone has to agree. When you have a well written process, workflow, policy, approval requirement, and control, your implementation process will be much easier
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    Wolters Kluwer
    we did it in a coaching model. This allowed us to have 2 key advantages: we got to know the system very well and managed to save on the implementation cost. This worked well, was maybe a bit slower since we had to do this in our spare time. Nevertheless I strongly recommand
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    Alternatives Considered
    BlackLine
    I have not used any of the other products, but we did evaluate them during our discovery phase. BlackLine was the "Cadillac" of the product offerings. You could get a similar product, and maybe even at a lower cost, but we wanted the best of the best, and that's what BlackLine is. We wanted a product that we could grow into, rather than a product we would outgrow over time as our organization grows. We have only touched the surface with BlackLine so far, and we've already reaped the benefits.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    I found the Excel piece of IBM Cognos TM1 to be easier to use than CCH Tagetik. It was much easier to customize the data being pulled and the feel of the reports because of that. Other than that, CCH Tagetik has been more user friendly than IBM Cognos TM1. Navigating within the application is much easier. IBM Cognos TM1 had a lot of issues with certain modules that could not be open concurrently; this would often lead to phantom data being entered in the system. I have not had these issues with CCH Tagetik.
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    Scalability
    BlackLine
    After implementing BlackLine our company acquired another large company with multiple operations. We were able to use the COVID shutdown to bring them on board with BlackLine with little effort in the setup and training of the users.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    A good and performing scalability both on a geographical and a legal entity scale. The link with MS Office suite allows an easy deployment of the application, especially for contributors.
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    Return on Investment
    BlackLine
    • Talent retention by creating roles with value-add work and reducing the mundane.
    • Promotion opportunities for those that have embraced BlackLine and have taken on more complex and more rewarding work as a result of the automation achieved.
    • Time savings which allowed teams to take on new projects without increasing headcount and without employee burnout.
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    Wolters Kluwer
    • Gave us a tool that can absolutely grow with us to help multi phase implementations.
    • A significant time savings in terms of the amount of time we used to spend running reports vs. the time we spend now. Unbelievable improvement.
    • Gives us the option to use CCH Tagetik to solve business problems that perhaps we didn't have when we implemented CCH Tagetik. It gives us options without the possibility of implementing a whole other software package.
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