Speeding Up the Data Feed Process

I am looking for a way to automate our Date Feed Process.

[Kelcor]

I am looking for a way to speed up our data feed process. It seems like each marketplace that allows a product data feed, requires a different format for importing. For example Froogle requires one format, while shopping.com requires another.

We have all of this information in our SQL database, and we just need to export it to a CSV, or Excel spreadsheet.

I won't lie this process is new to me, and I feel like there has to be a way to speed up this process, but I just don't know how... Any Suggestions?

[txbakers]

Hi Kelcor, welcome to Webmaster World.

The challenge you face was answered recently by IBM, Microsoft and Sun combined.

The answer is two words: WEB SERVICES

With microsoft the plan is called ".NET".

Take a stroll around google for information on Web Services.

Basically, the concept of web services is: the ability to share data across multiple platforms in different languages all wrapped in XML.

it's the future of data exchange. (if anyone can really figure it out that is)