ACCELERATED SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZING, MANAGING AND PUBLISHING BUSINESS INFORMATION

摘要

Embodiments of the invention provide an accelerated system and methods for gathering business information, augmenting that information to conform to requirements for sharing the information and for synchronizing managing and publishing the information across the supply chain. Through use 9of a control module business information is gathered from a variety of enterprise wide systems and stored via an acceleration engine. After augmenting and/or altering the information to conform to the requirements of a desired repository of information known as a data pool, the information is published to the data pool and registered by the data pool with a registry for looking up the published information. One or more embodiments of the invention allow for the rapid publication and modification of publication related data using advanced querying mechanisms of the acceleration engine. The publication features of the system allow for multi-lingual output and support for multiple output types including print and web based publication using the same inherent product data for example a product catalog. In addition, subscribing to product information is performed in the inverse direction with respect to a data pool allowing not only manufacturers, but also retailers to gain the benefits of the accelerated system. One or more embodiments of the user interface component comprises declaratively defined interfaces that are not hardcoded in a source code program. The server interface is capable of utilizing declaratively defined interface definitions for data pool specific messages and data attributes that are not hardcoded in a source code program. Declaratively defined user and server interfaces allow for modification of the interface without altering the source code and this allows lower skilled level employees to install and maintain the system.