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Impact AnalysisAugust 30th, 2009 by Stewart McKie - Executive Advisor
It’s easy to forget that not everyone is completely focused on monetary gain when they invest in a business – an increasing number of individual and institutional “philanthropic” investors also care about the social returns generated by a business. Read the rest of this entry » 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.
The Tale of Two Projects (Part One: SEC Interactive Data Rendering Engine)March 17th, 2009 by Emily Huang - Co-founder & VP, Business Technology
When the SEC needs a flexible, rule-based rendering engine for interactive data, who do they call?In July 2008, the SEC put out a “request for proposal” (RFP) to solicit software vendor’s help to create a “rendering engine” that can present the XBRL-based financial statements in an easy to read, attractive format. As stated in the RFP, “The commission proposal views interactive data as an important way to increase access to information in the financial marketplace. The ability to accurately generate human-readable XBRL documents from raw XBRL content in EDGAR submission is central to this work.” |
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