After the rebranding of ACL to Galvanize you as a customer will surely be confronted with some questions. What has changed? What's new? What does this mean for you as a user? But no panic. As of today, you will receive extensive details about the rebranding, implementation and the launch of the new GRC platform highbond.com via e-mail. In addition, you will receive information on all further effects of the launch.
After the rebranding of ACL to Galvanize you as a customer will surely be confronted with some questions. What has changed? What's new? What does this mean for you as a user? But no panic. As of today, you will receive extensive details about the rebranding, implementation and the launch of the new GRC platform highbond.com via e-mail. In addition, you will receive information on all further effects of the launch.
With the ACL Fall Release 2018 the product portfolio was extended by a new product. The new product combines the previous products consisting of Analytics and the Results Module with a fully automated script management, the so-called robots. It enables the evaluation of data and the automation of tasks, either in the cloud or on-premises. Officially this product belongs to the audit management platform ACL GRC. It allows the control and administration of robots via the web browser in the ACL Launchpad.
"Data Lake," more than a new buzzword?! In the future, data analysis will make more comprehensive use of the various data sources of a company. The own data sources should be considered together with publicly accessible data as a big whole as a so-called "Data Lake".
On 25-26 April 2019 the DFDDA Forum in Deggendorf starts again. At the 15th Deggendorf Forum for digital data analysis we will also be present with a booth this year. We are already looking forward to exciting lectures around the topic "Algorithms - Tools of a new way of thinking?".
In the current edition of ZIR (Zeitschrift interne Revision) you will find an article written by Günter Müller (Managing Director dab:Mittelstand) and Philipp Kiencke. As the title suggests, the multi-page article is about advice and basic ideas why a revision in small and medium-sized businesses is useful and how to build it up; The two authors deal with the necessities of a revision as well as with methods of effective revision work and the different forms of organization; You can either read the full article in the journal or buy it at the following link:
On February 04, ACL Services Ltd. officially announced the acquisition of Rsam (www.rsam.com). With this acquisition, ACL™ is consistently pursuing its growth path by consolidating its position in the GRC market.
At the end of last year, on 31.10.2018, we attended the Digital Audit Event of the IIA Switzerland. Our colleague Johannes Schwele from ACL™ presented the new ACL Robots in connection with the new possibilities that ACL™ offers in the area of Machine Learning and Data Analytic Case Management.
At the beginning of the year, we would like to give you a brief outlook on the year 2019. But first of all, I hope you had some relaxing holidays and a good start into the New Year, for which we wish you health, happiness and success. We have set ourselves a lot of goals for 2019, which could also be exciting for you.
There are constants in life that you can rely on - so Christmas is just around the corner. But this does not diminish the impression that we live in a time in which hardly anything stays the way it is, especially in the environment in which we operate with the topics of data analysis, ICS and integrated risk management.
ACL™ Connections 2018 was held in Philadelphia from 14 to 18 October. This is the annual global customer event of our partner ACL Services Ltd., headquartered in Vancouver.
The “Gartner Data & Analytics Summit” took place in Frankfurt on 23 and 24 October 2018. My fellow director Martin and I attended this event to learn about current trends in data analytics. Buzzwords such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud analytics and NPL (Natural Language Processing) are on everyone’s lips and it’s obviously important for us to gauge the current status quo and look at what the future could hold.