Understanding Electronic Data Collection

Electronic data collection enables you to:

• Increase the accuracy of data entry.

• Decrease the amount of time spent on data entry.

You can use the electronic data collection components to capture data from:

• Bar code devices.

• External feeds.

• Direct data entry.

The following diagram shows the data flow for electronic data collection. Data from flat files or XML messages are placed in the inbound staging tables by the PeopleSoft Integration Broker system. Online or batch applications can also place data directly into the inbound staging tables. Background processes apply the data to the PeopleSoft production tables. Any errors are handles by the Transaction Maintenance component. The Purge process will delete all transactions with a status of Complete or Confirmed from the transaction log:

This image illustrates electronic data collection data flow.