Web + Open Source

According to new research released today by Bernard Golden (Navica) and O’Reilly Research, there are at least six reasons compelling the rapid rise of open source in the enterprise.

• Agility and scale,
• reduced vendor lock-in,
• quality and security,
• cost,
• sovereignty,
• and innovation.

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XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is revolutionising business reporting around the world. It offers major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information which offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data.

The idea behind XBRL, eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is simple. Instead of treating financial information as a block of text, as in a standard internet page or a printed document, it provides an identifying tag for each individual item of data.

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