XBRL.

• Position: Technology tools - XinbaT 2.0 Reader and Analyzer introduced by Hitachi America Ltd. - Extensible business reporting language

Hitachi America Ltd. XBRL Business Unit, which develops and delivers eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) solutions for corporate and government customers, has brought out the XinbaT 2.0 Reader and Analyzer, a desktop-based Microsoft Excel add-in. The product gives users the capability to import, open and manipulate XBRL financial information directly in Microsoft Excel.

Xinba 2.0 Reader and Analyzer allows end-users to import XBRL 2.0a and 2.1 compliant financial information directly into Microsoft Excel by using Web Services to access taxonomies and instances that can be stored locally or--if they don't want to store the data locally--over a network or anywhere on the Internet. Xinba 2.0 Reader and Analyzer supports Web Services standards such as SOAP and WSDL, so that end-users can send requests and receive instance data provided by third-party data vendors using Web Services.

Xinba 2.0 Reader and Analyzer supports both the U.S. GAAP and IFRS taxonomies, according to the Hitachi...