Open-architecture system for real-time consolidation of information frommultiple financial systems

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An open-architecture system automatically consolidates information from a plurality of financial systems into a single accounting system without the need for expensive and time-consuming backroom procedures. The system enables an entity to use multiple independent and potentially incompatible financial systems to facilitate, control and monitor its spending purchasing and other , financial activitives while also enabling the entity to monitor and control all of these activities in real time. The system receives processes and , stores information obtained from a plurality of financial and/or other external computerized systems, and provides one or more authorized users with the …