| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACL BROADENS ENTERPRISE AUDIT
AND COMPLIANCE SUPPORT
WITH LAUNCH OF NEW AIX AND LINUX SERVER SOFTWARE
New Server Editions Reduce Audit and Compliance
Review Cycles
from Months and Weeks to Days
Vancouver, BC, February 19, 2004 - ACL Services Ltd., the
leading global provider of audit and data analysis technology, today
announced the launch of its newest client server solutions. With the
addition of AIX and Linux Server Editions to its existing OS/390
product offering, ACL now provides a broader technology footprint to
help organizations respond with confidence to increasingly tight
financial and compliance deadlines. ACL™ Server Editions
allow organizations to extend their enterprise analytics, harnessing
the processing power, speed, and reliability of server technology to
reduce audit and compliance review cycles from months and weeks to
days.
By extending the robust analytics provided by the ACL
Desktop product, the Server Editions enhance the ability of
auditors, assurance analysts, and financial decision-makers to gain
immediate access and greater visibility into corporate data. Through
a consistent user interface, ACL provides a single
point-of-view into enterprise data. Organizations can move
seamlessly between all types of data sources - flat files or
relational databases, spreadsheets or report files, on PCs or
servers and mainframes - to access, analyze, and compare large
volumes of transactional data. In today's stricter regulatory
environment, this allows businesses to minimize risk, stop revenue
leakage, and reduce fraud, while at the same time meeting compliance
obligations.
"These additional server solutions extend the ACL technology
infrastructure to better support continuous auditing and controls
monitoring processes," says Harald Will, President and CEO of ACL
Services. "Given increased demands for accuracy and integrity in
financial reporting, organizations must leverage technology to
validate the effectiveness of internal controls through analysis of
transactional detail. This is the new standard given regulatory and
stakeholder demands."
Powerful, non-intrusive ACL server software features read-only
access that ensures data integrity by never compromising source
data. ACL conforms to established data access profiles and
security mechanisms, eliminating the need to modify enterprise
applications or networks. ACL technology enables the independent
testing and validation of transactions against business controls and
operational policies, while avoiding IT scheduling constraints and
the need for cumbersome data extractions.
"In today's business environment, all organizations need to look
at validating their internal controls by testing transactional data
at its source," says Lane Leskela, Research Director with Gartner
Group. "With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley, access and the ability to
compare disparate data across enterprise systems is critical. Once
organizations move beyond the current documentation phase, the next
step will be testing their internal controls."
Technical Background: ACL Server Editions
- ACL Server Edition for OS/390
- Reads and analyzes all the data housed on IBM
System 390 and compatible machines
- MVS/XA (or later) or z/OS operating systems
- Direct database interfaces for DB2, IMS and
ADABAS are supported
- ACL Server Edition for AIX
- Reads and analyzes all data housed on IBM
pSeries or RS/6000 servers
- Direct access to Oracle and DB2 databases
- ACL Server Edition for Linux
- Reads and analyzes all data housed on x86
class processors (or higher)
- Supports the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake
- Direct access to Oracle and DB2 databases
For more information about ACL Server Editions, please
visit www.acl.com/server.
For more information contact:
Beth Hardy, Public Relations
ACL Services Ltd.
Phone: 604 669 4225
Email: media@acl.com
About ACL Services Ltd.
ACL Services Ltd. is a global
provider of Business Assurance solutions to financial executives and
audit professionals. Combining market-leading software and
professional services expertise, ACL gives organizations confidence
in the reliability, accuracy, and integrity of the data underlying
their increasingly complex business operations. Since 1987, ACL's
proven solutions have enabled financial decision-makers to assure
controls compliance, reduce risk, detect fraud, minimize losses,
enhance profitability, and achieve fast payback.
With an international customer base including 90 of the Fortune
100 companies and over half of the Global 500, ACL solutions are
delivered in more than 130 countries through a global network of ACL
offices and channel partners, and are used in hundreds of national,
state, and local governments and the Big Four public accounting
firms.
© 2004 ACL Services Ltd.
ACL and the ACL logo are registered trademarks of ACL Services Ltd.
All other company and product names are trademarks of their
respective owners.
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