Patent ID: 8484255

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions tangibly stored thereon which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform automatic conversion of multidimensional schema entities comprising: receiving a source object and source object metadata; receiving transformation metadata of a first transformation between a data source of the source object and the source object, wherein the first transformation comprises a first set of transformation rules; creating a target object for converting the source object by processing the received source object metadata; creating a second transformation, corresponding to the first transformation, between the data source of the source object and the target object; receiving metadata of a first data transfer process related to the first transformation; creating a second data transfer process from the data source for a set of member elements of the target object; creating a third data transfer process associated with the second transformation with delta initialization without data load between the data source of the source object and the target object for one or more target object member elements from the set of member elements from the target object, wherein the one or more target object member elements correspond to changed data within the first transformation created between the data source and the source object; creating a third transformation and a fourth data transfer process between the source object and the target object for transferring data from the source object to the target object; and executing the fourth data transfer process.