Interactive
Data
Extraction and
Analysis

IDEA is a comprehensive file interrogation tool for Auditors, Accountants, Financial Managers and Fraud Investigators.

Anyone who has a need to examine data and produce tailored reports quickly and easily will find IDEA an extremely useful tool.

With IDEA, complex analyses of data, extractions of unusual items, audit samples, searches for duplicate transactions and many more functions are easy to carry out using a user-friendly, intuitive interface.

To view the IDEA product brochure, click here.

To see what is new in IDEA Version Eight, click here.

For further information or to arrange an online demonstration contact us on +44 (0)1892 512348 or email sales@auditware.co.uk

Features

• Import data from a wide range of file types
• Perform analyses of data including comprehensive statistics, profiles, summaries, ageing and Benford's Law
• Conduct exception tests of unusual or strange items using simple or complex criteria. IDEA has 103 built-in special functions as well as normal arithmetic capabilities
• Perform calculations
• Test for missing or duplicate items
• Select samples using systematic, random or monetary unit techniques
• Match or compare data from different sources

IDEA also includes a development tool, IDEAScript, for extending the power and functionality of the software.

IDEA Add-Ons

These products are supplementary to IDEA, they are 'bolt-on' products that depend on the core functionality of IDEA.  These products focus testing on specific business or system areas.

• Smart Analyzer Financials
• Smart Analyzer Tax
• CaseWare Examiner
• Unix Security Auditor
• SAP/DART Import Component
• Internet Log Analyzer
• Card Profiler

• Operating Systems:
  

	Windows 2000 SP4*
	Windows XP SP2 or above
	Windows Vista
	Windows 2000 Server SP4*†
	Windows Server 2003†



• Processor:
  

	Minimum:	800 MHz
	Recommended:	1.2 GHz or greater



• RAM:
  

	Minimum:	256 MB
	Recommended:	1 GB or greater



• Disk Capacity:
  

	Program Files:	80 MB
	Electronic Documentation:	15 MB
	Data:	1.5 x size of data files



• MDAC Version:
  

	For Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP:	2.7 SP1
	For Windows 2000 Server, Server 2003 and Vista:	2.8

* - When running IDEA with variants of the Windows 2000 operating system imports of data from Microsoft Access 2007 databases are not supported
† - Network Edition of IDEA only