Real time sessions in an analytic application

A computer system comprising:

• a bus;
• a processor coupled to said bus;
• and
• a memory unit coupled to said bus, said processor for executing a method for performing a real time session in an analytic application, said method comprising:
• initializing a session, said session identified as a real time session, said real time session for repeatedly executing a data transport pipeline of said analytic application;
• specifying the length of a time interval;
• accumulating data in a source database during said time interval;
• executing said data transport pipeline each time said time interval expires, wherein said data accumulated in said source database during the most recent time interval are transformed according to said data transport pipeline and passed from said data transport pipeline to a target database;
• and
• persisting said data transport pipeline after each execution of said data transport pipeline until said real time session is completed.

A computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to perform a method for incrementally transforming in real time a dynamically changing operational database in an analytic application, said method comprising:

• initializing a session, said session identified as a real time session, said real time session for repeatedly executing a data transport pipeline of said analytic application;
• specifying the length of a time interval;
• accumulating data in a source database during said time interval;
• executing said data transport pipeline each time said time interval expires, wherein said data accumulated in said source database during the most recent time interval are transformed according to said data transport pipeline and passed from said data transport pipeline to a target database;
• and
• persisting said data transport pipeline after each execution of said data transport pipeline until said real time session is completed.