Diligent’s acquisition of Galvanize (ACL) is another nail in the ACL analytics coffin.
First, ACL acquired another company and created Galvanize. And we were told governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) would never be the same.
And I told you that ACL analytics would never be the same. In fact, I predicted that this acquisition meant that ACL analytics was dying (when I say ACL analytics, I’m referring to the Windows desktop version that they built the original company on).
For more on this, see ACL Officially Changes Name & Spots and Is ACL Analytics Dying?
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Rumors have it that ACL will no longer be available on the desktop (laptop, or other local machine) in 5 years.
That is, according to an ACL user who attended the 2018 ACL Connections conference.
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Running the desktop version of ACL in a virtual machine* (VM) has so many advantages, but I haven’t heard anyone else doing it.
Consider the following advantages, listed in order of importance (to me):
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When you’re trying to load a new file into an ACL table, you’ll sometimes get this error:: “Application error. ACL Desktop cannot complete this function…contact ACL Technical Support…” (see below).

Here’s the situations in which I’ve encountered this error, and how I’ve fixed it (most common and easiest to fix situations are first).
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