Concur Connector Overview
Concur Connector is a hierarchical connector that interacts with the Concur service through the REST API to perform operations on non-relational hierarchical data.
You can use Concur Connector to perform read, create, update, or delete operations on objects in Concur. For example, you can read expense object data through the GET or GET by ID operation associated with the object.
Create a Concur connection to connect to Concur from Informatica Cloud and interact with the Concur service to perform operations on non-relational hierarchical data. You can use the Concur connection in mappings and Mapping Configuration tasks. Create a Mapping Configuration task to process data based on the data flow logic defined in a mapping. Concur Connector has the following features:
- •You can use the request message XML editor to specify the request parameters to perform a specific operation in Concur.
- •When you run a Mapping Configuration task, the Secure Agent interacts with the Concur service through the REST API to perform operations on non-relational hierarchical data and converts the data into relational groups.
- •You can parameterize the connection and XML request attributes in a mapping.
Concur Connector uses version 3.0 of Concur API.
Example
You are an operation manager and you want to archive the travel and expense details of employees who have been traveling across the globe in the past one year. You can find the travel and expense details in Concur based on the employee ID, retrieve data through the Get operation on the QuickExpenses object, and then write the details to an Oracle database target. With Concur Connector, you retrieve the employee data in an XML structure and then define a corresponding relational structure to write to the relational target.