Case Study: International Mining Company saves hundreds of hours and streamlines XBRL tagging with Workiva

International Mining Company - Customer Case Study

A leading international mining company with an eight-person SEC reporting team had relied on in‑house report preparation and a third party to EDGARize filings, but ran into serious problems when XBRL tagging began. The bolt‑on tagging tool their vendor used was code‑driven, hard to use, slow to support and review, and required many iterations that led to misinterpreted changes, long waits and late‑night work.

After evaluating vendors and vetting security and peer references, the team adopted Wdesk by Workiva. Workiva’s cloud platform and Professional Services helped import data, link numbers across workbooks, and perform collaborative, real‑time XBRL tagging. The result: professionally managed tagging, hundreds of hours saved annually, smoother collaboration, fewer late nights, faster filings and increased confidence to eventually bring XBRL work in‑house.