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 Podcasts

Marc Donner, Google and Judge for XBRL Challenge

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - Engineering Director at Google talks about how XBRL fits Google's mission of organizing the world's information.

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XBRL Challenge Judge Phillip Moyer Encourages Competitors to Solve Data Problems

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - Safeguard's Phil Moyer says VCs look for companies and tools that solve 'previously unsolveable' data problems.  XBRL represents great opportunity for solutions.

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XBRL Challenge Judge Al Berkeley comments on the competition

Monday, August 08, 2011 - Vice Chair, Security First, and former chair, Pipeline Trading LLC Al Berkeley encourages contestants to be creative and 'think outside the box' with their application entries.

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XBRL Challenge Judge Eric Gillespie, VC from Viano Capital sees XBRL as the Gold Standard for Data

Monday, August 08, 2011 - Sees XBRL as eliminating "data oppression" and XBRL-focused business' as an opportunity for venture capitalists.

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CFA Institute Comments on XBRL Challenge

Wednesday, August 03, 2011 - Listen to the CFA Institute's Glenn Doggett (Director, Standards of Practice) discuss the opportunities for contestants and offer tips for creating a compelling XBRL application.

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 Sample Tools

XBRL Challenge

 Competition Summary

 XBRL Challenge Judges

Alfred Berkeley, Vice Chair, Security First, former chair, Pipeline Trading LLC

Marc Donner, Engineering Director, Google

Philip Moyer, Managing Director, Safeguard Scientific

Eric Gillespie, Managing Partner, Viano Capital

Paul Ratnaraj, Director, Advanced Initiatives, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

 

 XBRL Challenge Sponsors:

Analyzing Corporate Data in XBRL Format

The XBRL Challenge was initiated to encourage the development of more tools and build awareness among analysts about the wealth of data available to them.  Participants contributed open source analytical applications for investors that leverage corporate XBRL data.

This Year's Finalists

  • Advanced XBRL Processing by OXIDE Solutions

  • Arelle

  • Calcbench - Judges' Grand Prize Winner

  • XBRL to XL

  • XBurble 

The People's Choice for XBRL Challenge was Dynamic Earnings Model. Follow the links below to check out the entries that were submitted, and browse resources at right to learn more about the competition.

Appreciation 

Thanks to our prestigious panel of judges from Google Finance, Safeguard Scientific, Viano Capital, Wharton Research Data Services and First Security Corporation, and our sponsors Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) and the CFA Institute.

Questions? Email challenge@xbrl.us

 The Competitors

Advanced XBRL Processing by OXIDE Solutions
Build an open source cloud based or locally installed set of services that process XBRL filings and provide a platform to view, design and publish analytical reports from the XBRL data and external sources.



Arelle®
Arelle is an open source XBRL platform that supports full XBRL 2.1, dimensions, formula, versioning, and table linkbase extensions. Arelle's validation includes XBRL 2.1, XBRL dimensions, SEC Edgar Filer Manual, IFRS Global Filer Manual, HMRC, and SBR.



Calcbench.com - An online XBRL analytics toolkit and user community
Use Calcbench.com to instantly analyze XBRL data. Take advantage of automatic comparisons and calculations; add your own notes and formulas; export, save and share your work with people in your (personal) workgroup or the community as a whole.



Dynamic Earnings Model
Earnings models are the tools of the trade for many equity research analysts. This application automatically generates valuation model from XBRL data. It also allows analyst to flexibly define a more sophisticated model using any element in XBRL Taxonomy without requiring programming knowledge.



Financial Information Observation System (FIOS)
FIOS provides a web-based Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) interface for multi-company analysis over an integrated dataset, consisting of XBRL data from the SEC and the FFIEC as well as open web data from Wikipedia/DBpedia and Freebase.



Firm Tracker
The tool gives investors the ability to set criteria to find undervalued stocks or growth stocks in S&P 500, grade these stocks based on the criteria defined by its users, and then distribute these stocks into visual categories.



Fundamental Quantitative Equity Investing with XBRL Data
To develop an application that apply fundamental quantitative investing method with xbrl data.



Gepsio: XBRL Document Object Model For .NET
Gepsio is a .NET-based document object model for XBRL documents. Load your XBRL document with the XbrlDocument class and work with your XBRL document exposed as a set of .NET classes with a variety of properties and methods.



Improving access to surety credit for small and emerging companies through open standards and interoperability
To act as a catalyst for expanding the potential of XBRL and open standards by instigating a collaborative effort between leading trade associations to cross reference their respective xml dictionary of xml tags for interoperability between industries.



QuickXBRL
QuickXBRL is a financial statement comparison application that allows an end user to upload any XBRL-enabled 10-K or 10-Q report and view financial data, ratios, and period-to period change.



S&P500 Comparison Tool
Enable a FREE and simple investment analysis solution for SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON of basic financial statements between any two companies that are part of S&P 500 index. Access the tool directly from http://www.analyze10k.com



Stock Reporting Clock
This is a simple application that allows for company comparison and investigation on the Google TV. The application is actually a dashboard which has a clock, latest company news from the New York Times and latest XBRL data from the selected company.



William Edgar - the open source XBRL SDK
William Edgar is an open source XBRL SDK enabling developers to access the XBRL US database using objects instead of SQL queries. Developers can use the SDK to build XBRL web apps with the high productivity of the dynamic Java-based Groovy language.



XBRL to XL
Downloads "Analyst Ready" XBRL data into Excel via the web for multi-filing comparisons across companies or over time. The way the data is downloaded is designed to maximise both comparability and transparency.



XBurble
A desktop application that allows comparison over multiple filings, across companies.




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