Crossfire Solutions (made by Rivet Software).

• Position: COMPUTER & COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE - Company overview

Denver

Rivetsoftware.com

Returning as CEO late last year, Mike Rohan founded Rivet Software in 2002 to catch the coming XBRL wave in the post-Enron regulatory environment. "We think of XBRL as the global language of money," he says. "In 10 years, everything is going to be in this format."

Now mandated by the SEC and other regulatory agencies for large public companies, XBRL (extensible Business Reporting Language) is used in financial statements and other SEC filings, and Rivet's Crossfire Solutions software is now used by 1,600 public companies worldwide.

"We have to thank the SEC," Rohan jokes. "There are just a lot of public companies that need our help. Since we started eight years ago, we've...