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Standard Business Report Model
The Standard Business Report Model (SBRM) is a standardization initiative launched among a group of interested people at the end of 2018. The purpose of this wiki site is to support the work of this group.
OMG Policies & Procedures do not strictly specify how a working group is formed or governed. By virtue of having assembled to pursue SBRM, the participants constitute, and can call themselves, a Working Group.
1. Rationale and Mission
The rationale for the creation of SBRM is that the XBRL language (and “inline XBRL”) define a standard for a machine-readable format of a business report, but do not specify standard semantics. For example, a valid XBRL file does not have to be balanced – the sums of assets and liabilities of a company are not necessarily equal. A semantically complete standard would allow the report designer to express that a certain value must be equal to the sum, difference, product, or ratio of some other items contained in the report; or that a certain item cannot be blank if another item has a negative value; etc.
Further, the creation of SBRM responds to the needs of various regulatory agencies, sometimes codified in various legislative acts of countries, states or provinces, to provide reports that are devoid of basic errors – up to and including reports that “do not add up.”
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| The OMG Standard Business Report Model (SBRM) Working Group was formed to lead the work to solicit and adopt specifications for a common report metamodel, an ontology, and other related specifications it will deem necessary to advance the state of digital business reporting. The SBRM WG will pursue its objective through the creation of discussion papers, the preparation of an RFP, and the submission of specifications for evaluation and adoption. The SBRM WG will work in close cooperation with other OMG subgroups, including but not limited to the Business Modeling and Integration Domain Task Force (BMI DTF) and the Finance Domain Task Force (FDTF), to pursue successful technology adoption according to OMG Policies & Procedures. The Standard Business Report Model shall address the broader reporting needs of the business community, not limited to the financial domain or to U.S. organizations, laws and regulations. The SBRM WG will leverage its members’ connections with various organizations, including government authorities worldwide and other standards groups, in promoting the adopted technologies in order to generalize and streamline digital business reporting. The WG will consider the following in its work: * The existing work and body of knowledge related to the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), so that business reports that conform to the model can be expressed in the XBRL and Inline XBRL syntaxes. * Existing and upcoming OMG standards such as the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Business Architecture Core Metamodel (BACM), and others. * The report requirements embodied in various laws and regulations, such as (but not limited to) the U.S. DATA Act of 2014 and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report 18-138. * The need for business professionals to understand the documentation provided for the model such that they can effectively verify the accuracy of the model. |
The SBRM Working Group has developed an RFP, which was issued through the Business Modeling & Integration (BMI) Domain Task Force in June 2019, and will assist the BMI DTF in evaluating responses.
2. Participants
The current members the Working Group are:
- OMG members and staff:
- Pete Rivett* – Adaptive
- Elisa Kendall* – Thematix
- Mike Bennett* – EDM Council
- Richard Beatch – Bloomberg
- Steve MacLaird – OMG
- Bobbin Teegarden – OntoAge
- Lars Toomre* – Brass Rat Capital LLC
- Raynier (aka René) van Egmond* – XBRL Consulting Partners LLC / Brass Rat Capital LLC
- Claude Baudoin* – cébé IT & Knowledge Management
- supports this wiki and other logistical aspects, and provides the liaison with the BMI DTF, which he co-chairs
- Non-OMG members:
- Charles Hoffman, CPA – University of Washington
- Dean Ritz – Workiva
*authorized to edit this wiki
3. Meetings
The SBRM Working Group met weekly by teleconference during the first half of 2019.
A presentation on SBRM, and vote to issue the RFP, took place at the OMG Technical Meeting week in Amsterdam, NL, on Wednesday, June 19, 2019.
4. Deliverables
The official RFP, which has now been formally issued by OMG, is available with document number bmi/2019-06-04 on the OMG website here https://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?bmi/2019-06-04.
A status report on the progress of the submission was given at the September 2019 meeting (Nashville).
The revised schedule is to have initial submissions presented in December 2019 (Long Beach) with adoption in March 2020 (Reston, Va.).
A data sheet summarizing SBRM was created in April 2019.
An Overview of SBRM was created by Charlie Hoffman. It consists of 9 parts: Terms, Axioms, Associations, Narrative, Primer, Method, Technical, Examples, Conformance Suite.
5. Call for Participation
We have a mailing list, sbrm@omg.org. If you join the SBRM WG, you will be added to the distribution. To ask to be added to the mailing list manually, or to unsubscribe, please click here, state your request in the message, and press Send.
Participants who represent an OMG member company can be provided upon request with accounts to edit this wiki directly. Please contact Claude Baudoin for help. This wiki is based on the Dokuwiki platform, which has a different markup language from Mediawiki (the Wikipedia platform). See the Dokuwiki syntax before attempting more than simple plain text edits.
Non-OMG members can submit a proposed wiki addition or change to one of the OMG members for posting. The post may be edited for clarity, consistency, spelling, etc. Submissions that are questions or discussion points will be placed in the Discussion section at the bottom, which is only visible to members.
6. Related Standards and Papers
OMG: Standard Business Report Model (Data Sheet)
XBRL International: Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) 2.1
XBRL International: Inline XBRL 1.1
XBRL International: XBRL Formula Specification
Hoffman, Charles, and Raynier van Egmond: Method of Implementing a Standard Digital Financial Report Using the XBRL Syntax
Araújo de Santana, A.R., Paulo Caetano da Silva, Márcio A. Pereira da Silva, and Maurício Codesso: xAudit: Auditing Representation in XBRL Based Documents
