14. A tangible non-transitory machine-readable medium that provides executable instructions, which, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising: receiving invoice adjustment information in a first application-specific data object format from a first processing system of a plurality of processing systems, wherein each processing system of the plurality of processing systems comprises an application, and wherein the invoice adjustment information is received at a communications transport layer; receiving, at the communications transport layer, configuration information relating to the processing systems, wherein the configuration information is configured to be received via a communications protocol adapter; and translating the invoice adjustment information into a common invoice adjustment data object format, wherein the translating comprises accessing a first storing unit configured to store transformation information, accessing a second storing unit, wherein the second storing unit stores at least one business process, and executing the business process in response to a predefined event, and the common invoice adjustment data object format comprises at least one relationship data element, wherein the relationship data element specifies at least one relationship between a plurality of entities, the relationship data element comprises a plurality of elements, a first element of the plurality of elements corresponds to a first entity of the plurality of entities, a second element of the plurality of elements corresponds to a second entity of the plurality of entities, at least one custom data element, wherein the custom data element facilitates customization of the common invoice adjustment data object format, an identification data element, an invoice adjustment base data element, a billing data element, a status data element, and a list of invoice adjustment line item details data element.
14. A tangible non-transitory machine-readable medium that provides executable instructions, which, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising: receiving invoice adjustment information in a first application-specific data object format from a first processing system of a plurality of processing systems, wherein each processing system of the plurality of processing systems comprises an application, and wherein the invoice adjustment information is received at a communications transport layer; receiving, at the communications transport layer, configuration information relating to the processing systems, wherein the configuration information is configured to be received via a communications protocol adapter; and translating the invoice adjustment information into a common invoice adjustment data object format, wherein the translating comprises accessing a first storing unit configured to store transformation information, accessing a second storing unit, wherein the second storing unit stores at least one business process, and executing the business process in response to a predefined event, and the common invoice adjustment data object format comprises at least one relationship data element, wherein the relationship data element specifies at least one relationship between a plurality of entities, the relationship data element comprises a plurality of elements, a first element of the plurality of elements corresponds to a first entity of the plurality of entities, a second element of the plurality of elements corresponds to a second entity of the plurality of entities, at least one custom data element, wherein the custom data element facilitates customization of the common invoice adjustment data object format, an identification data element, an invoice adjustment base data element, a billing data element, a status data element, and a list of invoice adjustment line item details data element. 15. The tangible non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 wherein the method further comprises: inter-exchanging invoice adjustment information in the common invoice adjustment data object format between two or more of the plurality of processing systems.