As an open standard for electronic communication of business and financial data, XBRL has the potential of improving the efficiency of the business data supply chain. A number of jurisdictions have developed different XBRL taxonomies as their data standards. Semantic heterogeneity exists in...

Integration is an activity that unites people, equipments, programs but also managerial practices and helps a company to put its knowledge into good use. In Romania, more and more private companies choose to have integrated systems to help them grow. Public owned companies and institutions, for...

Data warehouses have been developed to answer the increasing demands of quality information required by the top managers and economic analysts of organizations. Their importance in now a day business area is unanimous recognized, being the foundation for developing business intelligence systems....

Der Gedanke der Entscheidungsunterstützung durch externe Daten ist nicht neu, so haben beispiels­weise Wirtschaftsdienste und Marktforschungsinstitute mittlerweile eine lange Tradition. Die erfor­der­lichen Informationen aber genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt, in der richtigen Menge und in...

We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD) that combines administrative records and survey-based data for virtually all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States. In the process, we confront conceptual and practical issues that...