1. An apparatus for semi-synchronously exporting data, the apparatus comprising: a processor; and one or more sequences of instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of: receiving, by a web server, a request for data from a client computer; synchronously exporting, by the web server, a portion of the requested data, accessed from a database, to the client computer in response to receiving the data request from the client computer; creating, by the web server, an export record after receiving the request for data from the client computer and after synchronously exporting the portion of the requested data; asynchronously exporting, by the web server, a remainder portion of the requested data to the client computer subsequent to the web server synchronously exporting the portion of the requested data to the client computer, the asynchronous exporting comprising: sending, by the web server, a token to the client computer, a receipt of the token enables the client computer to be used for other purposes while waiting for receipt of the remainder of the requested data, the token enabling the client computer to execute a process in the background of the client computer to periodically poll the web server; processing, by at least one of a plurality of batch processing servers, the requested data, by accessing the database, in response to accessing the export record; updating, by the at least one of the plurality of batch processing servers, the export record to reflect the processing of the data request; and exporting, by the web server, the remainder of the requested data to the client computer in response to identifying an update of the export record.