Integration of a Service-Oriented Transaction System With An Information Storage, Access and Analysis System

A computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium, operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

• initiating one or more program agents configured to interface with a service-oriented transactional system and configured to transform transactional data in a first format from the service-oriented transactional system into a second format;
• receiving the transactional data in the second format from the one or more program agents;
• and
• determining one or more locations to write the transactional data for transfer to a business data warehousing system.

A system comprising:

• a computer-based service-oriented transactional system comprising a first data model;
• and
• a computer-based business intelligence system comprising a second data model;
• wherein
• the computer-based business intelligence system integrates with the computer-based service-oriented transactional system using a data integration component comprising a data transformation interface and a data transfer interface;
• the data transformation interface and the data transfer interface being configured to communicate through a decoupled information exchange that separates program implementation details of the data transfer interface from the data transformation interface.

An apparatus comprising a computer-readable medium encoding a computer program product including a data integration component comprising:

• a data transformation interface;
• and
• a data transfer interface;
• and wherein
• the data transformation interface and the data transfer interface configured to effect data exchange between a service-oriented transactional system comprising a first data model and a computer-based information storage, access and analysis system comprising a second data model;
• and
• the data transformation interface and the data transfer interface configured to communicate through a decoupled information exchange that separates program implementation details of the data transfer interface from the data transformation interface.