Financial analytics.

• Position: Technology TOOLS - IMonitor 2.1

iLumen Inc., a financial information and technology company headquartered in Atlanta, has released Version 2.1 of its iMonitor[R] financial monitoring and benchmarking network. iMonitor is an automated system for electronically gathering and analyzing financial reporting data from small mid-market enterprise (SME) customers to provide leading-edge, standards-based benchmarking and trend analysis to the banking and accounting industries.

Built on a modular three-tier architecture to ensure data integrity and scalability, new features in iMonitor 2.1 include an automated browser-based data import engine that enables the uploading of financial information from any end-user accounting software, as well as from CPA trial balance systems.

New data management capabilities include data cleansing, financial account standardization and automated data mapping technologies to streamline the data workflow. iMonitor 2.1 also supports and incorporates the latest XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) standards for data export and for moving data between the network and CPA and bank systems. A new relational database back end, along with centralized data...