Kevin Berens – CPO

Kevin Berens is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Rivet Software with over 20 years of past experience in business intelligence and creating software. He has the ability to effectively manage and grow teams, adapt processes and enhance software attributes through periods of explosive growth. At Rivet, Berens is responsible for all product decisions including the cost/benefit analysis for each feature.  Kevin has helped Rivet become more efficient in ensuring both customer satisfaction and ensuring that the highest industry standards are met.

Over the last 15 years, he has worked to develop and sell products that help users solve reporting challenges (both for mid-market and enterprise level customers). With his innovative track record, Berens has built three startup reporting and analytic products that each evolved from zero customers to leaders in their industry in less than 2 years. Kevin is a founder of FRx Software Corporation – a Microsoft subsidiary (formerly FRx Software), spending 10 years with varying roles – ranging from Product Specialist to VP of Development. After FRx was purchased by the Microsoft Business Solutions Division in 2000, he continued on with Microsoft where he was a Lead Program Manager on the PerformancePoint Server team which delivered enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions to the Enterprise Performance Management market.

Prior to his software development career, Kevin spent five years at American Express, First Data Corp where he was a data analyst. He received his Bachelors from Colorado State University in accounting and received his Masters in Computer Information Science from University College (Denver University).

My Posts:

Benefits of XBRL – Analyzing data even when a company uses a unique extended element

We know that it’s pretty easy to analyze XBRL data when companies are using the same base taxonomy element. What about when companies have used different base elements? What about companies that did not tag the totals but instead tagged all of the details? What about companies that tagged using an extended element? It’s still [...]

Benefits of XBRL – Peer Comparison Reports using XBRL and Rivet’s Crossfire Reporting Software

Thanks to companies leveraging XBRL to report their financials, I can now compare companies side-by-side – and I can do it more quickly than ever before. I created a report to compare 24 different companies.  In a single report, I gathered data for the 3 previous months and created 16 different ratios for these companies.  [...]

Benefits of XBRL – XBRL provides timely data

Imagine a world where a company files today with the SEC and you are automatically alerted if their Return on Sales has dropped below 20% and their Quick Ratio has dropped below 2.0.  Well that world is today, thanks to XBRL. Prior to XBRL, this was not possible, unless you paid to have this information [...]

Recognizing the Benefits Made Possible by XBRL

For the past year, I have seen multiple blogs where people have questioned the benefits of XBRL. I believe the time has come to start recognizing the benefits of XBRL. Whether you want to analyze how your company is performing as compared to your 5 closest competitors, analyzing the financials of companies who you want [...]

Rivet customers recognizing the benefits of XBRL for analyzing data takes only seconds

At a time when most companies are seeking out software vendors to assist them with their XBRL tagging,  our customers are seeing not only how Rivet can help them with this process, but also the huge benefit that can be recognized with XBRL.   In fact, it is so easy to create these reports, that during [...]

Creating XBRL reports, so easy a customer can do it (in a demo)

Creating a report that compares your company to every company in your SIC code used to be so difficult. You needed to determine the companies in your SIC code.  You needed to find the data for each company and download this into an Excel spreadsheet.  You needed to then create a bunch of formulas to [...]

The impact of Agile development and what it means to the CrossTag customer PT 2

How product innovation is combined with feedback from customers – the evolution of CrossTag for XBRL tagging In my last entry, I talked about how customer feedback was incorporated into the product. However, we try to balance feedback from customers in conjunction with product ideas that we think would benefit our users In the spring [...]

The impact of Agile development and what it means to the customer PT 1

How feedback from customers get into the product – the evolution of CrossTag for XBRL tagging What is Agile development (using a Wikipedia reference): Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies that are based on similar principles. Agile methodologies generally promote a project management process that encourages frequent- Stop – Stop – [...]