A CONNECTION TOOL FOR CONNECTING ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SOURCES

摘要

A connection tool to extract information from an electronic document source, for instance an XML source, such as an electronic marketplace, and convert it to a compatible format before providing it to an analytical application, such as a data warehouse (80) system is described. In one embodiment, broker interface (35) transports the XML documents to the connection tool (10) from application (20) which can reside on an electronic marketplace, and/or electronic marketplace router (30) . A server (40) forwards incoming documents to interested listeners (55, 60, 65, 70, 75) through a listener interface (50) . Data are extracted and/or transformed from the documents by the listeners (55, 60, 65, 70, 75) and forwarded to corresponding and/or specified data warehouses (80, 85, 90, 95).