The Tale of Two Projects (Part Two: XBRL Loader for Thomson Reuters)

June 3rd, 2009 by Emily Huang - Co-founder & VP, Business Technology

Think globally, think XBRL!

In September 2008, Rivet and Thomson Reuters began working on an XBRL-related project for the Reuters Fundamentals product. The project released earlier this month and the first stage of delivery, handling Japanese XBRL is now in production.

“Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for business and professionals. Our Reuters Fundamentals offering continues to dynamically evolve as clients demand more and faster data. By integrating XBRL into our existing process clients benefit from enhanced speed and reliability within the same products they use today.”  Says Geoffrey Horrell, who is responsible for Investment and Advisory Content Strategy for XBRL at Thomson Reuters.



Conversations with Financial Printers Regarding XBRL

May 20th, 2009 by Kurt Roscow, Vice President of Sales & Operations

It’s no secret that some of the first movers in the marketplace that are adopting XBRL on a practical, functional, and operational level were the large financial printers. This is even more true today, as the SEC XBRL mandate begins to wash through the economy for real. While many associations, interest groups, and advisory panels considered and debated the pros and cons related to XBRL adoption, the printers in contrast got right to work building the practice, pushing the discussions, and looking for software to help solve the problem.

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