UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 is SEC-Ready Reporting Solution with Built in Validation Tools

REDWOOD CITY, CA – October 15, 2008 –  UBmatrix, Inc., the leading provider of XBRL information exchange solutions, announced today the release of UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5, a desktop tool for creating, interacting with, and validating XBRL documents.  UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 is an SEC-ready reporting solution with built-in tools for validating Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) XBRL compliance and an embedded SEC viewer so companies can see exactly how their reports will be seen by analysts and investors.  The solution is also integrated with Microsoft® Excel and Word embracing the workflows finance and compliance departments already use when preparing SEC reports. 

“The UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 provides public companies with the tools they need, and the peace of mind they’ll want, in complying with the SEC mandate to report financial results in XBRL,” said Sunir Kapoor, president and chief executive officer of UBmatrix, Inc.  “We believe UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 is a step or two ahead of competitive solutions offering the combination of validation and viewing of SEC XBRL reports – and integration with Microsoft Word and Excel.”  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a Rule Proposal that mandates interactive data (XBRL) filings of SEC reports for public companies, beginning with “large accelerated filers.”  Under the new rule, most Fortune 500 companies, among others, will be required to submit their reports in XBRL beginning with fiscal periods ending in December 2008.  All other public companies will be required to file in XBRL in a phased approach.  Increased regulatory and compliance demands have led to a drive for technologies, such as XBRL, which can help further compliance while at the same time easing the burdens of reporting. 

The UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 solution, combined with Microsoft® Excel and Microsoft® Word, provides an intuitive desktop environment that enables the creation, interaction with, and validation of XBRL documents including XBRL versions of companies’ 10-Q and 10-K.  UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 leverages the familiar user interface of Microsoft Excel enabling users to easily prepare, review, and analyze data in XBRL documents. The solution embraces the workflows finance and compliance departments already use when preparing SEC reports. Financial report preparers can assemble data using Excel’s standard user interface or populate a spreadsheet with data programmatically using the extensive Report Builder API.  Because Report Builder comes with UBmatrix’s industry-leading XBRL processing engine, the document is guaranteed to be valid according to US-GAAP taxonomy.

With this release, UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 adds new features specifically designed to help companies manage and comply with the SEC mandate for financial reporting in XBRL:

• Validation of SEC Reports – UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 provides industry leading XBRL validation functions with specific tools to ensure report compliance to SEC standards when filing a 10-K, 10-Q or other required documents.    
• Embedded SEC Viewer – The solution embeds the open source “SEC Viewer” so companies can see exactly how their reports will be seen by analysts and investors once processed through the SEC reporting system.  This helps ensure the taxonomy has been modeled with the desired labels and elements in the proper order, and that all data is XBRL-tagged as intended.  The final reports can be saved and printed for corporate records.   
• Easily add XBRL Footnotes – The solution adds a new footnotes features to capture and include footnotes in financial or compliance reports.  The solution offers a user-friendly method of capturing both plain text and block-text/HTML XBRL footnotes.  Each footnote entry can be reused any number of times, and multiple footnotes can be associated to a given reporting element.
• Import Notes & Disclosures – Given the narrative nature of the Notes and Disclosures, many organizations author and review this content in Microsoft Word.  In order to easily incorporate this content into an XBRL filing, UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 includes the ability to attach Word documents and reference select content from each document when producing an XBRL report.  This allows financial report authoring in an Excel environment while text can be written and edited inside one or more Word documents.
• Hyperion SmartView Support – Users that leverage HFM's SmartView plug-in to Excel for producing their financial reports can now use UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 to create and validate XBRL documents from their SmartView spreadsheets

UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 also comes with a number of enhancements for tighter integration with Microsoft Office solutions. 

• Microsoft Office and Vista Support – UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 now supports both Microsoft Office 2007 and the Microsoft Vista operating system.
• Microsoft Word Imports – As noted, the solution now supports the importation of content from linked Microsoft Word documents.  This feature is of particular importance to companies in terms of inclusion of their Notes and Disclosures.
• Excel Style Template Protection – UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 also enables new template protections similar to those used in Excel spreadsheets and cells, including password protection.  This allows management and administrators to access and set taxonomy and mapping features, while keeping preparers focused on the data entry and validation features.

In addition to meeting the needs of SEC filers through the support of the US-GAAP taxonomy, UBmatrix Report Builder is currently in use worldwide enabling filers to create and validate XBRL documents for any XBRL use cases including Basel II reporting using CO/FINREP taxonomies and Standard Business Reporting using the IFRS taxonomy.

 “UBmatrix helped pioneer the development of XBRL technology and played a key role in the development of the US GAAP taxonomy used by the SEC – and the UBmatrix Report Builder 3.5 is a completely SEC-ready solution, providing all the tools a company needs to prepare and submit its SEC reports in XBRL,” said Kapoor.

UBmatrix XBRL Solutions
UBmatrix provides a full suite of solutions and services that enable global corporations and regulatory agencies to realize the benefits of XBRL – from the underlying processing engine, to desktop development and deployment tools, all the way to packaged solutions for regulatory filings.

UBmatrix’s XBRL solutions are used today in advanced, demanding environments such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), European central bank supervisors such as Banque de France, the global Microfinance Information eXchange, and leading global corporations participating in the SEC XBRL voluntary filing program.

About UBmatrix
UBmatrix, Inc. is the leading provider of XBRL-based information exchange solutions for global organizations and enterprises allowing them to more efficiently and effectively address the challenges of business and financial information management, exchange and reporting.  XBRL is fast becoming the standard for financial information exchange and reporting demonstrated by the XBRL programs being driven by the SEC, FDIC and the European Central Bank Supervisors. UBmatrix XBRL solutions increase operational efficiency and financial transparency, and ensure reporting accuracy and regulatory compliance.  UBmatrix is based in Silicon Valley with development centers in Kirkland, WA, and New Delhi, India.  For further information, visit www.ubmatrix.com