Collection and analysis of document traffic in an electronic marketplace

A system for processing data in an electronic marketplace, the system comprising:

• one or more processor executing an electronic marketplace;
• and one or more memory storing:
• a database for storing documents transmitted via the electronic marketplace;
• a data warehouse for storing statistical data relating to documents sent via the electronic marketplace, wherein information corresponding to predetermined statistical categories is extracted from the documents stored in the database to generate the statistical data and the statistical data comprises a number of documents transmitted via the electronic marketplace for at least one statistical category;
• and
• a reporting application for accessing the data warehouse to retrieve statistical data and for generating reports representing aggregated statistical data, and for representing statistical data retrieved from the data warehouse in response to a query for a category of statistical data, wherein the presented information includes a number of documents transmitted via the electronic marketplace by an entity, a time period, and a document type associated with the documents.

An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions operable to cause one or more machines to perform operations comprising:

• receiving documents sent through an electronic marketplace;
• extracting data from the documents, wherein the extracted data relates to a predetermined statistical category of transactions conducted through the electronic marketplace;
• storing the extracted data;
• aggregating the stored data according to the predetermined statistical category, wherein aggregating the stored data according to the predetermined statistical category comprises determining a number of documents transmitted through the electronic marketplace for the predetermined statistical category;
• receiving a query for a statistical category of data;
• and
• presenting information from the appreciated data in response to the received query, wherein the presented information includes a number of documents sent through the electronic marketplace by an entity, a time period, and a document type associated with the documents.