A method and apparatus for transporting data for a data warehousing application. Data is extracted from one or more source containing data having a standard data structure and is translated into data that contains meaningful business terms. The translated data is then stored. In the present embodiment,...http://www.google.ca/patents/US7117215?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7117215 - Method and apparatus for transporting data for data warehousing applications that incorporates analytic data interface