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Terminology Differences Defined Between Siebel Applications and SAP
Siebel applications and SAP use different terminology for the same objects. This guide always uses the Siebel application term when referring to Siebel software and data elements. (See Table 2.) It always uses the SAP term when referring to SAP software and data elements. When a description requires both terms, the Siebel application term occurs first and the SAP term occurs second. Example: Account/Customer.
Table 2. Siebel Applications and SAP Terminology
Siebel Applications Term
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SAP Term
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Account
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Customer
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Contact
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Contact
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Sales Order
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Sales Order
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Product
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Material
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This guide uses many abbreviations and specialized terms. Table 3 provides a list of many of these terms.
Table 3. Siebel Connector for SAP R/3 Terminology
Term
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Meaning
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ABAP
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SAP programming language, Advanced Business Application Programming.
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ALE
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Application Link Enabling. This is SAP's technology for transmitting IDOC data containers to and from external applications using Transactional RFC.
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BAPI
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Business Application Programming Interface. This is the function call interface to SAP's business object methods. These function calls are often referred to as BAPIs. The terms BAPI and RFC are very similar and are often used in place of one another.
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Dialog Process
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An SAP process that handles immediate user activity and ABAP execution.
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EAI
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eBusiness Application Integration. A toolkit of Siebel-supplied utilities you can use to create data adapters between Siebel applications and external applications.
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IDOC
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Intermediate Document. This is the hierarchical data container used by ALE.
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RFC
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Remote Function Call. This is the technology used by SAP to allow external applications to call ABAP functions defined in SAP and allow SAP to call functions defined in external applications. The terms RFC and BAPI are very similar and are often used in place of one another.
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Synchronous RFC
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Two-way RFC call into or out of SAP.
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tRFC
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Transactional RFC. This is a one-way RFC call into or out of SAP with guaranteed delivery.
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Table 4 contains a list of Siebel Connector for SAP R/3 business services and their common names in this document.
Table 4. Business Service Names
Name in Document
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Business Service Name
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BAPI Adapter
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EAI SAP BAPI Adapter
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BAPI Workflow Service
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EAI SAP BAPI Workflow Service
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IDOC Adapter
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EAI SAP IDOC Adapter
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IDOC MQ AMI Adapter
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EAI SAP IDOC MQ AMI Adapter
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IDOC MQ AMI Workflow Processor
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EAI SAP IDOC MQ AMI Workflow Processor
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IDOC Workflow Processor
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EAI SAP IDOC Workflow Processor
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IDOC Workflow Service
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EAI SAP IDOC Workflow Service
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Process Transaction Service
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EAI SAP Process Transaction Service
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Send Transaction Service
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EAI SAP Send Transaction Service
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tRFC BAPI Adapter
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EAI SAP BAPI Adapter (tRFC)
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tRFC BAPI Receiver
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EAI SAP BAPI Receiver (tRFC)
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