The world's most robust, flexible and proven continuous monitoring solution.

• Monitor every transaction
• Deploy quickly and easily for your most critical needs
• Automate routine testing
• Detect anomalies that may trace to fraud, abuse or errors
• Track and escalate exceptions for rapid remediation

ACL continuous monitoring fills a critical gap - the ability to test the integrity of transactions across multiple ERP systems. While most ERP systems offer built in controls, they are unable to provide a full view across multiple systems - the norm in most organizations. Similarly, while many organizations rely on Business Intelligence software to identify key trends from aggregate data, BI systems are unable to provide the depth of transactional insight necessary to provide assurance that controls are working, or to quickly and efficiently identify key exceptions for review.

Continuous controls monitoring provides organizations with effective insight into the integrity of individual transactions, and the overall effectiveness of their controls.
First introduced in 2003 by ACL, the world leader in audit analytic technology, the initial continuous monitoring solution was launched in response to the need for increased insight into higher risk business processes - often as a follow up to audit findings.

Transactional controls testing is ACL’s expertise
Developing a continuous controls monitoring solution was a natural progression from ACL’s domain expertise in controls testing. ACL pioneered technology that enabled advanced audit analytics and launched a commercial solution in 1987. Today, ACL technology is used by over 14,000 organizations globally to conduct controls testing as a part of audit, compliance and risk programs.

More organizations rely on ACL for continuous monitoring
Since the introduction of our first solution, continuous controls monitoring of transactions has become a key emerging segment within the broader GRC market, and ACL has maintained its ‘first to market’ lead. In their 3rd annual Internal Controls Study of technology companies, released Nov 2009, KPMG found that ACL was the most commonly used GRC tool, at 19%, with an additional 7% planning to use ACL in the future.

Robust solutions
ACL has over 22 years experience successfully connecting to and extracting source data from any type of system. No matter what mix of systems you face, ACL can deliver.

Flexible to your needs
All your controls tests will be scripted in ACL’s proprietary scripting language – purpose built for complex queries. Tens of thousands experienced users, mainly in audit, have already been trained in ACL and can help create and adapt your control test scripts as your organizations needs evolve.

Scalable implementations
Only ACL provides ease of scalability. You can start your monitoring quickly and easily. Identify the critical controls and test, build them using ACL Desktop, and easily move them into our continuous monitoring solution. No need to rethink your entire audit and monitoring processes. ACL’s approach allows easy immediate wins to address your most critical needs.

Alternatively, for global enterprises needing full deployment with standardized libraries of tests, we can get you there fast, and efficiently, by scaling up the components of your solution from the start. We have successfully implemented global continuous monitoring solutions at companies such as Siemens AG.

Proven results
More organizations rely on ACL software and services to fulfill their transactional control testing needs than any other vendor. Our continuous monitoring solutions have an extensive library of proven analytics developed to the key control objectives as established within COSO’s Internal Controls Framework. Our Services team will quickly scope your needs, and select the tests that will serve you best. We quickly configure these to your unique requirements and complex data fields, and get you operational in weeks.