Patent ID: 8315974
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of making procurement-related information that has been generated on a transaction level available to data warehousing techniques, comprising: providing accounting-related data sets centrally stored in a general ledger database located on a transaction processing layer of a computer system to a duplicator operating on the transaction processing layer, the accounting-related data sets being comprised of one or more data lines; generating duplicates, by the duplicator, of the provided accounting-related data sets that fulfill predefined criteria in a procurement context; storing the duplicated data sets on a data line level in a source data base of the computer system; adding, using an analyzer, transfer information to the duplicated data sets, the transfer information controlling the extraction and transfer of data lines or sets of data from the source data base, and wherein the transfer information is added in dependence of a relevancy of the duplicated data set for a spend analysis to be performed in the data warehousing layer; and selectively extracting and transferring data contained in the data lines or sets of data lines from the source data base to a data warehousing layer of the computer system in accordance with the transfer information.