Apparatus and method for serviced data profiling operations
A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to establish a mapping mechanism to facilitate access to profile data from a set of client applications. A client profiling task from a requesting client application of the set of client applications is processed to form processed data. The processed data is passed to the requesting client application.
1 . A computer readable medium, comprising executable instructions to:
establish a mapping mechanism to facilitate access to profile data from a plurality of client applications;
process a client profiling task from a requesting client application of the plurality of client applications to form processed data; and
pass the processed data to the requesting client application.
2 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to establish a mapping mechanism include executable instructions to define a unique source identification for each client application of the plurality of client applications.
3 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein each unique source identification specifies a database type.
4 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein each unique source identification specifies a server name connection.
5 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein each unique source identification specifies a database name.
6 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to process a client profiling task include executable instructions to service a function call.
7 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to service a function call through an application program interface.
8 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a logon request.
9 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a logout request.
10 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a task name.
11 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a profile task wait command.
12 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a profile task status request.
13 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a profile task cancel command.
14 . The computer readable medium of claim 6 wherein the executable instructions to service a function call include executable instructions to process a profile task summary command.
15 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to pass processed data include executable instructions to pass a profile attribute.
16 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to pass processed data include executable instructions to pass a profile task completed notification.
17 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to facilitate a data analysis upon the processed data.
18 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to facilitate a reporting operation on the processed data.
19 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to facilitate an extraction, transform and load operation on the processed data.
20 . The computer readable medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to facilitate a data assessment task on the processed data.