CaseWare IDEA, a privately held software development and marketing company, and Audimation Services, which provides data analysis expertise and technology to accountants, announced new enhancements to its IDEA Version Eight, which was developed to help simplify and improve the quality of data analysis work.
Scheduled for release in March 2009, IDEA Version Eight offers multiple ease of use enhancements including a Visual Script that allows users to build their own scripts without any programming. Visual Scripts can be used to rerun standard analysis processes and build continuous monitoring applications. IDEA Version Eight also enables users to create their own functions and easily share them with others using the Custom Functions feature.

