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ACL ANALYTICS Tell Your Story. Connect to any data, analyze any risk, and visualize your results. Strategic risks look like icebergs in annual reports, but the reality is that they manifest as ny needles in the haystack of your organizaon’s transaconal data. ACL™ Analycs connects you to any data source, and lets you run sophiscated risk analycs and detect anomalies or paerns that you simply can’t illuminate with any amount of random sampling, spreadsheet ninjutsu or generic business intelligence. It’s designed for you, the GRC professional. Regardless of your department or assurance role, ACL technology enables you to tackle the areas where data analysis will make a material difference to your organizaon: RISK ANALYTICS Suspicious? Test your hunch fast. You’re the expert. ACL Analycs is designed to perform risk analycs against finance, IT and business operaons data. If you’re suspicious, interrogate your data and get answers fast. CONNECT TO ANY DATA SOURCE If you have data, you can analyze it. Access and consolidate data from all your sources—from cloud soluons, like Concur, to that 22-year old system only Judy knows how to use. A billion records from your ERP system? Spreadsheets? Data stored in the cloud? Unstructured data in PDFs? No Problem. No other tool can access data as economically as ACL Analycs. DATA VISUALIZATION Visually detect paerns and share. Explore and build a beer understanding of your data by creang interacve visualizaons that can be shared with stakeholders to tell your story. INDEPENDENT. DEFENSIBLE. REPEATABLE. Ligaon? Don’t get caught without your acvity log. Your enre data set is protected in read-only format. Every analyc step is recorded to provide assurance and repeatability. FLAG MORE ACCURATE MATCHES Somemes the greatest breakthroughs start out…fuzzy. With advanced fuzzy matching tools, find more duplicates or join tables even when the data is not exactly the same, common vendor fuzzy billing errors can cost seven figures. If the data scienst in you demands more—like advanced quantave methods or predicve analycs—we’ve got that covered too with third-party integraons with R and Python. INVESTIGATIONS – REPUTATIONAL INTEGRITY Big data analycs for forensics, accounng and invesgaons. You can never go wrong with the best. ACL Analycs is the industry standard for interacve data analysis against the enre dataset populaon. AUTOMATE RECURRING ANALYSIS Automate those manual tasks your boss asked you to do. Recurring analysis can be easily automated to free up me and ensure analysis is consistently performed every me. IT’S ALWAYS YOUR DATA WITH OPEN DATA Don’t ever feel like your data is trapped. Easily visualize your ACL analyses with third-party BI and reporng tools, like Tableau or QlikView. Or, securely work with any stakeholder online, store evidence, and assign flagged records for further review in the ACL Results module. PRODUCTIVITY ECOSYSTEM Training, best-pracces and producvity boosters built-in. To help you succeed, we have heavily invested in creang a producvity ecosystem to provide more value. Your subscripon includes access to online training, a library of pre-built risk analysis scripts, a rich knowledge base, an inspiraons plaorm of ideas, and complete user guides. 1 PRODUCT SHEET

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ACL ANALYTICS Tell Your Story. Connect to any data, analyze any risk, and visualize your results.

Strategic risks look like icebergs in annual reports, but the reality is that they manifest as tiny needles in the haystack of your organization’s transactional data.

ACL™ Analytics connects you to any data source, and lets you run sophisticated risk analytics and detect anomalies or patterns that you simply can’t illuminate with any amount of random sampling, spreadsheet ninjutsu or generic business intelligence. It’s designed for you, the GRC professional.

Regardless of your department or assurance role, ACL technology enables you to tackle the areas where data analysis will make a material difference to your organization:

RISK ANALYTICSSuspicious? Test your hunch fast. You’re the expert. ACL Analytics is designed to perform risk analytics against finance, IT and business operations data. If you’re suspicious, interrogate your data and get answers fast.

CONNECT TO ANY DATA SOURCEIf you have data, you can analyze it. Access and consolidate data from all your sources—from cloud solutions, like Concur, to that 22-year old system only Judy knows how to use. A billion records from your ERP system? Spreadsheets? Data stored in the cloud? Unstructured data in PDFs? No Problem. No other tool can access data as economically as ACL Analytics.

DATA VISUALIZATIONVisually detect patterns and share. Explore and build a better understanding of your data by creating interactive visualizations that can be shared with stakeholders to tell your story.

INDEPENDENT. DEFENSIBLE. REPEATABLE.Litigation? Don’t get caught without your activity log. Your entire data set is protected in read-only format. Every analytic step is recorded to provide assurance and repeatability.

FLAG MORE ACCURATE MATCHESSometimes the greatest breakthroughs start out…fuzzy. With advanced fuzzy matching tools, find more duplicates or join tables even when the data is not exactly the same, common vendor fuzzy billing errors can cost seven figures. If the data scientist in you demands more—like advanced quantitative methods or predictive analytics—we’ve got that covered too with third-party integrations with R and Python.

INVESTIGATIONS – REPUTATIONAL INTEGRITYBig data analytics for forensics, accounting and investigations. You can never go wrong with the best. ACL Analytics is the industry standard for interactive data analysis against the entire dataset population.

AUTOMATE RECURRING ANALYSISAutomate those manual tasks your boss asked you to do. Recurring analysis can be easily automated to free up time and ensure analysis is consistently performed every time.

IT’S ALWAYS YOUR DATA WITH OPEN DATA Don’t ever feel like your data is trapped. Easily visualize your ACL analyses with third-party BI and reporting tools, like Tableau or QlikView. Or, securely work with any stakeholder online, store evidence, and assign flagged records for further review in the ACL Results module.

PRODUCTIVITY ECOSYSTEM

Training, best-practices and productivity boosters built-in. To help you succeed, we have heavily invested in creating a productivity ecosystem to provide more value. Your subscription includes access to online

training, a library of pre-built risk analysis scripts, a rich knowledge base, an inspirations platform of ideas, and complete user guides.

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Customer ROI survey results:

of customers report that using ACL Analytics has improved the value their team delivers

to stakeholders.

of customers say using ACL Analytics has improved how their department is perceived by

senior management.

of customers say the ability to test entire data populations vs. sampling is valuable to critical.

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The data visualization is fantastic. Information is about communication. You can do

the best analysis in the world, but if you’re handing over tables and tables of data, no

one can consume it and take action. When you put it in a picture, you’re telling senior

management a story about how the data has an impact on the business.

– Blair Richards, Senior Manager, Australia Post –

APPLICATION USE CASES

Audit ComplianceInformation Technology

Risk ManagementAccounting & Finance

Public Sector

■■ Control effectiveness

■■ Audit analytics■■ Risk assurance■■ Statistical sampling

■■ FCPA ■■ AML■■ Sanction lists■■ Contract compliance

■■ Data migration, reconciliation

■■ COBIT, SOX■■ Security testing■■ Transactional SoD testing

■■ Log analysis

■■ Monitoring KRI indicators

■■ Risk scoping■■ Human survey testing

■■ Risk analytics

■■ PCard ■■ T&E■■ P2P■■ Fraud■■ Tax compliance■■ Procurement■■ Vendor assurance■■ Predictive analytics

■■ Entitlement oversight

■■ Grants compliance

■■ Investigations■■ Automate A123 control testing

■■ Audit readiness

NEED TO ACCESS SAP DATA?

WE HAVE AN ADD-ONStill wondering what a BKPF table is? Be your IT team’s new best friend. Our certified SAP data connector makes exploring and extracting data from SAP easy. Map and translate your goldmine of SAP data into meaningful information. We are certified to connect to SAP® ERP, SAP® CRM, SAP® SRM, SAP® SCM and SAP® EWM—up to and including running on SAP S/4HANA®.

YOU’VE IDENTIFIED ISSUES THAT NEED

REMEDIATION…NOW WHAT? Stop tracking issues in email. Integrate data analysis into your workflow with ACL GRC. Interact with any stakeholder to review and remediate flagged records, get a macro view of all your organizational issues, filter by entity, project, owner or severity, and check remediation status at the click of a button.

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