Makes data transfer look good
The OWL Data Hub is a new component of our Owl Cloud Services. While the connectors mainly focus on transferring data to systems, the data hub extension creates an interface that can be used to retrieve data from systems and customers as required. We are thus turning the direction of transmission from a “push” to a “pull” service.
The Owl Data Hub consists of the following main components:
- The Collections: a collection can be filled with JSON data of any kind. Unique keys can be used to control whether a new data set should be inserted or an existing one updated.
- The API keys: An API key has access to the specified collections. A collection not only controls which API key has access to it, but also to which data. For example: it can restrict an API key so that it can only query the stock for a specific brand.
- The formats: This is where you define how the data from the collections should be delivered. Either in JSON format, as XML or CSV…
- The filters: A filter can restrict data so that a collection can be reused for many use cases
- The endpoints: These access points ultimately define who can access the data with which API key, format and filter
Flexible, reliable and centralized
Please note that the Owl Data Hub is implemented completely flexibly. There is no fixed JSON structure and no restriction to a specific source or target system. This means that the collections can originate from a Contentserv PIM with the DynamicJSON.Connector, an ActiveScript or any custom implementation outside Contentserv. The same applies to the target systems that use the Data Hub. All connected systems only need to be provided with an API key to request data.
The Owl Data Hub is located in our data center here in Munich and is highly available and high-performance. This means that your customers can request the product, price or inventory data they need whenever they want.
This allows you to retrieve and display data from the Owl Data Hub directly in your website or online store at runtime: Stock quantities, availability, customer prices, FAQ’s, product information.
In addition, the Owl Data Hub is not tied to just one PIM system, so you can combine data from different sources (product data, stock quantities, prices, ticket systems, etc.).