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Overview
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Direct Linktm for SAP® ERP
Direct Link tm for SAP® ERP helps solve your SAP ® data access challenges by enabling direct and seamless access to your SAP ERP data. Direct Link is certified for integration with the SAP ERP application. Gain independence and flexibility by selecting and extracting the SAP ERP data you need, when you need it, while minimizing your reliance on busy IT resources. Direct Link adds SAP ERP data selection and extraction capabilities to the data access, analysis, and reporting capabilities of ACL AuditExchange and ACL Desktop Edition to provide a comprehensive solution to help you analyze your SAP ERP data. The result is unprecedented independence and control, increased productivity and effectiveness, increased reliability and faster, more comprehensive data analysis to support your audit and analysis activities.

Direct, Seamless Access
Gain independence from IT resources and conduct your audits more quickly and efficiently. With Direct Link you can access your SAP ERP data and retrieve records in a quick and secure manner. Table and field descriptions are displayed in the language selected when logging on to the SAP system. Select all the data you need and extract it when you need it to achieve increased productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Automatic Formatting
Save time and improve productivity by eliminating the need to define and prepare data after it is extracted. During the retrieval process, Direct Link formats SAP data for use within ACL. The data does not require any additional data conversion or formatting before you can analyze it.

Data Integrity
The ability to directly access SAP ERP data helps maintain the independence of your audits and frees you from IT resource constraints. Direct Link interactively creates read-only queries to extract SAP data for subsequent analysis using ACL. This ensures that production data cannot be altered and that data integrity is always maintained.

Officially designated by SAP as a SAP Certified Integration solution
Direct Link for SAP ERP solves your data access challenges by providing direct, seamless access to SAP data. Using Direct Link, you no longer need to rely on ABAP programmers or limited reporting utilities—you can easily and quickly access SAP tables and conduct comparative cross-platform analysis with transactional data from other systems.
Direct Link (Versions 4.0, 4.2, 5.0, 6.0) has passed rigorous testing to receive official SAP Certification for SAP R/3 4.6C, SAP R/3 4.7, SAP ECC 5.0 and SAP ECC 6.0. View the SAP 4.6C certificate, SAP 4.7 certificate, SAP 5.0 certificate and SAP 6.0 certificate for more information.

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