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: Lex ScriptaIDEA replaces EDGAR
By Dallas Association of Law Librarians
The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. The decision to replace EDGAR marks the SEC?s transition from collecting forms and documents to making the information itself freely available to investors to give them better and more up-to-date financial disclosure in a form they can readily use.
Full post as published by Lex Scripta on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).
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