SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA INTEGRATION

• US 20170262515A1
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Published: 09/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Deshmukh, Sachin, Jaiswal, Manish, Narayan, Manoj, Schuster, Hermann, Gogineni, Srujan
• Granted Patent: US 11,074,270 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives a document from a first computing system that is destined for a second computing system via a network platform. The program further identifies an integration configuration associated with the first computing system. The program also determines a document format of the document. The program further transforms the document format of the document from a first document format to a second document format based on the integration configuration. The program also sends the document in the second document format to the network platform in order for the network platform to forward the document to the second computing system.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program executable by at least one processing unit of a computing device, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

receiving a document from a first computing system that is destined for a second computing system via a network platform;

identifying an integration configuration associated with the first computing system;

determining a document format of the document;

transforming the document format of the document from a first document format to a second document format based on the integration configuration; and

sending the document in the second document format to the network platform in order for the network platform to forward the document to the second computing system.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the integration configuration includes connection information for connecting to the network platform and a set of document mappings, each document mapping specifying a source document format, a target document format, and a document type.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for determining a document type of the document.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3, wherein transforming the document format of the document comprises identifying a document mapping in the set of document mappings that specifies a source document format that matches the determined document format of the document and a document type that matches the determined document type of the document.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 4, wherein transforming the document format of the document further comprises generating a version of the document in the target document format specified in the identified document mapping.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the second document format is a common intermediary document format supported by the network platform.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2, wherein sending the document to the network platform comprises establishing a connection to the network platform using the connection information specified in the integration configuration.

8. A method comprising:

receiving a document from a first computing system that is destined for a second computing system via a network platform;

identifying an integration configuration associated with the first computing system;

determining a document format of the document;

transforming the document format of the document from a first document format to a second document format based on the integration configuration; and

sending the document in the second document format to the network platform in order for the network platform to forward the document to the second computing system.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the integration configuration includes connection information for connecting to the network platform and a set of document mappings, each document mapping specifying a source document format, a target document format, and a document type.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising determining a document type of the document.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein transforming the document format of the document comprises identifying a document mapping in the set of document mappings that specifies a source document format that matches the determined document format of the document and a document type that matches the determined document type of the document.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein transforming the document format of the document further comprises generating a version of the document in the target document format specified in the identified document mapping.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the second document format is a common intermediary document format supported by the network platform.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein sending the document to the network platform comprises establishing a connection to the network platform using the connection information specified in the integration configuration.

15. A system comprising:

a set of processing units; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by at least one processing unit in the set of processing units cause the at least one processing unit to;

receive a document from a first computing system that is destined for a second computing system via a network platform;

identify an integration configuration associated with the first computing system;

determine a document format of the document;

transform the document format of the document from a first document format to a second document format based on the integration configuration; and

send the document in the second document format to the network platform in order for the network platform to forward the document to the second computing system.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the integration configuration includes connection information for connecting to the network platform and a set of document mappings, each document mapping specifying a source document format, a target document format, and a document type.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the at least one processing unit to determine a document type of the document.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein transforming the document format of the document comprises identifying a document mapping in the set of document mappings that specifies a source document format that matches the determined document format of the document and a document type that matches the determined document type of the document.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein transforming the document format of the document further comprises generating a version of the document in the target document format specified in the identified document mapping.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein sending the document to the network platform comprises establishing a connection to the network platform using the connection information specified in the integration configuration.