Improving Business Performance
by using XBRL
Mr. Christian Barrios Marchant
Member of the Executive Board of SOFTWARE AG
Responsible for Region South West Europe and Latin America
35 Years History of
Technological Leadership
1979
1997
First Mainframe 4GL
First company to port
DCOM to Mainframe
2001
1969
1998
Company founded
Introduced First XML Server
1971
1991
First Mainframe Database
developed by Peter Schnell
Introduced First Service Broker
for Distributed Applications
1983
TAPS (Trade Analysis & Process System)
World’s Largest Clearing House System
Software AG joins
XBRL International
2003
Software AG first
company reporting
in IFRS XBRL
2004
2001
First integration and
mediation architecture to
process XML
First Digital reporting
Architecture to
process XBRL
DIGITAL
REPORTING
PLATFORM
Software AG
“The XBRL Company”
The first XML software company in the market
Introduced the first XML database server in 1998
First integration and mediation architecture to
process XML (2001)
Fully committed to XBRL since 2001
One of the first large companies to implement XBRL
internally as a consolidation reporting tool
Regional Structure
 Region North
 Region South
 Region
Central/Asia
Market developments
Commercial Take-Off
X
B
R
L
Introduction
of XBRL
Piloting
XBRL
A
D
O
P
T
I
O
N
• Regulators
• National Banks
• Stock Exch.
• Statistics
Phase 1
2002
2003
2004-2005
Broad Use
of XBRL
• Commercial Banks
• Tax organizations
• Registry of comp.
• Insurance
• Investment funds
• Credit Risk Ass.
• Listed Corporations
• Analysts
Phase 2
2006
• Large Companies
• SME’s
Phase 3
2007-2010
Estimated size and
growth of market
for XBRL software
Time
Corporations
Internal Rep.
Regulated
Entities (SME)
Regulators and
Regulated
Banks & Firms
Quasi reg.
2010
2009
€ 1 Billion
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
15 Million
Why will business
performance increase with
XBRL?
XBRL
XBRL offers:
•
Uniform communication vocabulary cross businesses
•
Increase of reporting speed due to full automation of supply chain
•
Reduction of errors by elimination of manual data entry
•
Improved quality by build-in validation before submission
•
Focus oriented analysis using alerts and automation wizards
•
Interoperability
Standardization results in cost reduction, safety, secureness,
predictability; it makes life easier
Where Software AG fits
Portal
Application
Taxonomy
Editor(s)
Validator(s)
Instance
Document
Generator(s)
Digital Reporting Platform
(Storage – Administration – Integration)
Document
Management
Digital Reporting
summary XBRL Information
Supply Chain
INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN
Information
Meta Data and
Management
Taxonomy
Creation
Information
Collection and
Reporting
Information
Processing
and Validation
Information
Storage and
Retrieval
Information
Integration
and Exchange
Report
Creation
Automated
Processing
Business
Rule
Validation
Storage,
Searching,
Viewing
Integration
&
Data
Delivery
Taxonomy
Managemen
t
DIGITAL REPORTING PLATFORM
Information
Intelligence
and Reporting
Analysis
& Reporting
DIGITAL REPORTING PLATFORM
FOR RAPID
XBRL SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT
Core XBRL and XML infrastructure
Hides the complexities of the XBRL
standard
Examples of XBRL business solutions
Corporate XBRL Reporting
DRP
ADMINISTRATION PORTAL
web interface for management of
the Digital Reporting Platform
Credit Risk Management
Regulatory e-Filing
API TOOLKIT
for customization of
the Digital Reporting Platform
Stock Exchange Portal
COMMON XBRL AND XML FUNCTIONS
validation, en-/decryption, digital time stamp/signature,
versioning, report rendering,…
INTEGRATION AND XBRL REPOSITORY
report flow orchestration, process management,
data collection and conversion services, taxonomies, instance documents,…
NATIVE XML SERVER
XML and non-XML storage, indexing, structured and full text searching and retrieval
What is the Digital Reporting Platform?
The DRP platform is a framework package containing common
functions that form the foundation for following planned
XBRL solutions
Stock Exchange Portal
Regulatory e-Filing
Credit Risk Management
Corporate XBRL reporting
• The DRP platform framework package will also be sold to
Systems Integrators for building solutions for their customers
It contains a documented API toolkit for rapid development of
new functions
It has a Administration Portal for maintaining and viewing the
content of the XBRL repository and its users
Information
consolidation
processes
Information
collection,
validation,
storage and
rendering
processes
Informatio
n
integration,
monitoring
and
analysis
processes
Advanced solutions for
XBRL projects
Digital Reporting Platform
Unique 100% XML and XBRL based solution
Management of
all XBRL taxonomies
all XBRL reports (instances)
Build-in facilities for
Validation
Security
Encryption/decryption
Digital Signature/Timestamp
Document flow control
Customizable and extendable using API toolkit
Use Cases by
Software AG
Unique rating portal for corporations
based on XBRL standard
www.xbrlrating.de
Key supplier for XBRL initiative of
the German Stock Exchange
xbrl.deutsche-boerse.com
XBRL
Use Cases by
Software AG
First company publishing financial
information in XBRL 2.1
using the IFRS taxonomy
http://xbrl.softwareag.es
Software AG selected by CRAS
consortium (Credit Risk Assessment
Services) to develop the first industry
XBRL taxonomy
XBRL
Use Cases by
Software AG
Telefonica - internal reporting and
consolidation with XBRL (pilot)
Banco Popular - financial reporting
to shareholders (pilot)
XBRL
German Stock Exchange
Financial
statistics comparison
between
Software AG,
ATOSS Software AG
GFT technologies AG
German Stock Exchange
Summary
XBRL
Software AG has 35 years of in-depth experience in the IT
We serve world’s largest companies and governments around the world
We provide leading XML based technologies
A leading company in XML business integration
First complete XBRL digital reporting architecture
Talk with us to discuss how we can help you
to improve your internal and external business
reporting processes
thank you
SOFTWARE AG - THE XBRL COMPANY