Siebel Systems, Inc.

Oracle America, Inc.

Kwong Ming Tse

Jimin Li

Cory D Wiegert

James Gan Fong

Xuan Wei

Matthew Philip Grumbach

David Gok Louie

Wenxin Li

Yong Lu

George Eichholzer

Guoquan Zhou

Tien Huu Nguyen

Ching Kai Huang

Techniques are described for exchanging data between software applications, such as project-related data between a project management software application ('PMSA') and an unaffiliated organizational project tracking software application ('OPTSA'). A computing architecture with multiple interacting computer systems, such as a client-server architecture, can be used to allow users of remote computing systems to access project-related data and/or functionality from other computing systems, such as a thin client computing system with limited or no local capabilities to execute software applications and/or store associated application data accessing a remote central server computing system in order to interact with a PMSA executing on the server, to interact with an OPTSA executing on the server, and/or to invoke data exchange functionality available at the server for exchanging project-related data between the PMSA and OPTSA.

Exchanging project-related data in a client-server architecture

A hosting center that is remote from a plurality of customer environments is provided so that users can interact with data from the user's selected customer environment. The data interaction includes bi-directional synchronization of data between that of the hosting center and that of the user's selected customer environment.

Access and synchronization with enterprise applications using remote hosted solution

Techniques are described for exchanging data between software applications, such as project-related data between a project management software application ('PMSA') and an unaffiliated organizational project tracking software application ('OPTSA'). A mapping and other related information may be defined for the data exchange, such as by defining data fields of the OPTSA database and PMSA data file that correspond, and optionally specifying related information such as additional processing to be performed for various data fields during the data exchange, conditions when a mapping is to be used, ordering information for data fields during import and/or export, preferred data formats for stored values, etc. Also, in some situations round-trip data import/export is performed for a single PMSA data file, which may include tracking whether data entity instances previously existed in the destination in order to support changes to stored inter-relationships between data entity instances.

Exchanging project-related data between software applications

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Kwong Ming Tse