Key speakers from Salesforce.com and Hitachi
WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ — XBRL US, the nonprofit consortium for XML business reporting, announced that detailed case studies and advanced topics in XML and XBRL development would be presented at its upcoming Pacific Rim Technology Workshop to be held at Hitachi Data Systems Headquarters in Santa Clara, California on July 28-30, 2009.
“Product managers and XML developers stand to gain significantly from this workshop where they’ll have an opportunity to learn, share ideas and come up with solutions to issues like rendering, versioning and maintenance. This workshop is worthwhile not only for XBRL experts but for the uninitiated who are still in the learning phase,” said Campbell Pryde, Chief Standards Officer, XBRL US.
Key topics that will be covered include:
- Practical, hands-on taxonomy maintenance workshop – an overview of the change management process in place today through real-world case studies in Japan and the US; participants will be able to test out change management approaches during the session
- Versioning discussion panel – business requirements and proposed solutions
- Tagging approaches – examples of three different methods and discussion of the pros and cons for each
- Rendering challenges – a dialogue about issues and possible solutions
- Data quality and validation – discussion on problems in XBRL creation, how it impacts the user and ways to solve it
- Database and business intelligence – discussion of the challenges in storing, querying and retrieving XBRL data to maximize comparability of information
In addition, special topic speakers will include:
- Michael Travis, Chief Operating Officer and Board of Directors, Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Systems Global Holding Company
- Steve Wright, Director of Innovation, Salesforce.com Foundation
Product managers, XML and XBRL developers should attend. Complimentary media passes are available for the press.
The conference will be held at Hitachi headquarters in Santa Clara, California. To learn more and to register for the event, go to http://xbrl.us/events/Pages/PacificRim.aspx
About XBRL
XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is a royalty-free, open specification for software that uses XML data tags to describe business and financial information for public and private companies and other organizations. XBRL benefits all members of the information supply chain by utilizing a standards-based method with which users can prepare, publish in a variety of formats, exchange and analyze business and financial statements and the information they contain.
About XBRL US
XBRL US is the non-profit consortium for XML business reporting standards in the United States and is a jurisdiction of XBRL International. It represents the business information supply chain, including accounting firms, software companies, financial databases, financial printers and government agencies. Its mission is to support the implementation of XML business reporting standards through the development of taxonomies relevant for use by US public and private sectors, working with a goal of interoperability between sectors, and by promoting adoption of these taxonomies through the collaboration of all business reporting supply chain participants. XBRL US has developed taxonomies to support U.S. GAAP and common reporting practices, the Risk Return Summary in mutual fund prospectuses and the Schedule of Investments under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The XBRL US GAAP Taxonomies are available for review at http://xbrl.us/taxonomies/Pages/US-GAAP2009.aspx.
Link: www.xbrl.us
CONTACT: Michelle Savage, Vice President, Communication, XBRL US, Inc., michelle.savage@xbrl.us, +1-917-747-1714
