ACL Analytics (ACL) is a data analysis application that provides a powerful combination of data access, data analysis, and integrated reporting. ACL provides immediate visibility into transactional data critical to your organization. The application reads and compares data, but does not allow modification of source data to ensure that it remains intact for complete data quality and integrity.
ACL allows you to work with data in the following ways:
Analyze entire data populations, or samples of populations.
Identify trends and exceptions, and highlight potential areas of concern.
Identify control issues and ensure compliance with organizational standards.
Age and analyze financial or time-sensitive transactions.
Automate analytic testing and receive immediate notification of results.
Log the analysis performed, allowing you to preserve analysis steps, and review and compare results.
Prior to version 10.0, ACL Analytics was called ACL Desktop. In the online help and user guides, the short version of the name continues to be ACL.
To distinguish between desktop- and network-based editions of ACL, the full names of the different editions are ACL Analytics – Desktop Edition and ACL Analytics – Network Edition.
Both the desktop- and network-based editions of ACL are available in Unicode and non-Unicode editions. Unicode and non-Unicode are not part of the product names, however the application installers are identified as Unicode or non-Unicode. Additionally, in the dialog box containing the product serial number and the software version number (), Unicode editions of ACL display the word Unicode after the version number. Non-Unicode editions display only the version number.