Vendor comparison
DeshCyber DECIMA vs Workiva
Workiva and DECIMA compete for the same work: SEC and ESEF reporting. Workiva is a cloud platform for what it calls assured integrated reporting, built around connected documents — teams draft the 10-K, 10-Q or 8-K together, linked data keeps a number consistent wherever it is cited, and XBRL and iXBRL tags are applied to the document before it is filed. DECIMA is built around the data instead of the document: it reads ledger and control state continuously, generates filing content from it, assigns iXBRL tags as each fact is produced, validates against the EDGAR Filer Manual throughout the period, and keeps a dated, re-verifiable record behind every disclosed figure.
Both file to EDGAR. Workiva makes drafting a filing faster; DECIMA removes most of the drafting, and can prove every number in what is left.
SEC reporting, side by side
Six points finance and legal teams weigh when both are on the shortlist.
- How a filing is produced
- WorkivaTeams write and review the filing in connected documents; linked data carries a changed number to every place it is cited.
- DECIMAFiling content is generated from ledger and control data, so the first draft exists before anyone starts writing and updates as the underlying figures move.
- XBRL and iXBRL tagging
- WorkivaTags are applied to the drafted document, with tooling that helps teams select and review them.
- DECIMAEach fact is tagged at the moment it is generated, so tags cannot drift from the numbers during late edits.
- Filing validation
- WorkivaValidation runs on the document, typically during review and before filing.
- DECIMAEvery fact and tag is checked against the EDGAR Filer Manual and Data Quality Committee rules continuously through the period, so errors surface weeks before the deadline rather than on filing night.
- 8-K and the four-day deadline
- WorkivaDrafting starts once the team has identified the event and gathered the figures.
- DECIMAThe event is detected from live data, its financial impact is assessed, and a tagged 8-K draft is generated the same day.
- Evidence behind a disclosure
- WorkivaEdit and approval history on the document, plus SOX test workpapers recorded by control owners.
- DECIMAA dated observation and a re-runnable verdict for each control behind each figure, on a published rule version an auditor can check independently.
- Beyond SEC reporting
- WorkivaSustainability reporting such as CSRD, internal audit and enterprise risk.
- DECIMAESEF, plus PCI DSS, CMMC, SWIFT CSP and Bangladesh Bank mandates proven on the same evidence base.
Where Workiva is the better fit
Honest limits, so the comparison is usable.
- A filer whose annual report is mostly narrative written by many hands — finance, legal, investor relations, design — will value Workiva's collaborative document editing.
- An organisation already standardised on Workiva for sustainability and internal audit, with a filing process it is satisfied with, has less to gain from switching than from running DECIMA beside it.
See DECIMA against a real mandate
Each console shows the evidence model applied to one rule set.
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