Part 3: How do we get the data?

So now that we know what we want to display, we need to get the data. Most of our data will be RSS feeds. RSS is a great way of moving data arround.  I will take each of our metrics from Part 2 and group them by the system that has the data we want.

Here is a summary of the technologies we will use:

• For the sales data will will be using SQL server and RSSBus to get the data from our order processing system
• For the support data we will be using a custom C# web app to contact Salesforce and generate a RSS feed
• For development we will be using the standard RSS output of our snippets app
• For the company data we will be updating that with a custom desktop app that uses the RDA