![]() I liked IDEA better and they had better support, but when I made my recommendation, my boss didn’t like that IDEA was newer, so he made me “buy IBM”. In my first job, I was tasked with getting some analytic software, and in those days, it was ACL or IDEA. I wouldn’t toss IDEA without giving it a whirl. I’ve played with Tableau, Qlik, and Trifecta, plus a few others, but not seriously. I’m also learning LDAP query to better query active directory. Power BI, but haven’t found a real good use for it yet. ![]() You can even do pivot table-ish queries in SQL. It can handle tons more data than ACL, and knowing SQL query language sure comes in handy. The saddest part, in my opinion, is that ACL (the company) is either letting it die on purpose, they don’t know any better, or don’t know how to fix it. That’s why I’m learning new tools–I’m getting ready. ACL is dying, and my boss will eventually pry it out of my reluctant hands. I wish ACL had features that other analytic software have. Other languages can do what ACL does, but they are a lot harder to learn and troubleshoot. And when you need help, ACL support is pretty darn good. Also, I haven’t found any other software that is easier or cheaper to automate. No other software is as cheap, as easy to code and understand, as versatile. I mean, really, my account on this blog has ACL suffixed to my name! So ACL and I have been kissing cousins for a loooong time. ![]() I decided to publish it ‘posthumously’ (so to speak) to show 1) how much I’m agonizing over ACL’s direction, 2) how I’ve always felt about ACL’s software, and 3) provide some balance to my previous post. I stumbled across it today in my Drafts folder. NOTE: I wrote this well over a month ago, long before I posted the ACL Officially Changes Name & Spots post I just got sidetracked and forgot about this post. Making Laurie Schultz their CEO helped, but I don’t think it has been enough. ![]() I fear that ACL Analytics is dying, and has been as long as I’ve been ranting about it. ![]()
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