Integrating with upstream and downstream systems

To integrate your Collaboration Server system with upstream and downstream systems, you need to create data sources, define import, export, or report jobs, and create message queues. An upstream system is any system that sends data to the Collaboration Server system. A downstream system is a system that receives data from the Collaboration Server system.

You can load data into the Collaboration Server system at regular intervals (weekly, daily, or hourly) from an upstream system.

An upstream system can be any system that publishes item information to the Collaboration Server system. The following graphic is an example of an upstream system is the supplier system that updates item information into the Collaboration Server system. An example of a downstream system is a print catalog system that receives data from the Collaboration Server system to generate the item information for the published catalog.