Abstract: Techniques for remotely managed data extraction are disclosed whereby a client data extractor (CDE) is installed on a customer computer system to extract data from the customer computer system for transmission to a destination. Soft configuration techniques can be employed where the configuration data for governing the data extraction are provided to the customer computer system from a service provider computer system on an as-needed basis. Moreover, during extraction, data translation from a source format to a destination format can be performed at the query level to improve efficiency.