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Understanding Integration Paradigms

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Before you begin an integration project, identify your integration needs. Siebel eBusiness Applications need to interact with external systems to provide an integrated view of your information. You may have data in a variety of applications, such as back-office solutions for order fulfillment, manufacturing, or accounting; e-commerce applications such as Web storefronts; and help desk applications.

There are several ways you can approach your integration, depending on your needs. You can connect Siebel applications and your back office or eCommerce system using prebuilt Siebel eAI connectors. You can connect Siebel applications and an external application using Siebel eAI custom-built connectors. You can integrate Siebel applications with middleware solutions. Or you can integrate Siebel applications with external applications using a third-party EAI product.

Siebel eBusiness Applications provide solutions for each element of the EAI planning process.

Programmatic interfaces, such as COM, CORBA, and Siebel Java Beans provide a tightly-coupled integration for real-time data exchange.
Adapters, such as MQSeries and the HTTP adapters provide a loosely-coupled mechanism for real-time integration. This means that one system needs to be aware of implementation details for the other system's integration mechanisms. A message or a document is exchanged between these systems.
For high-volume batch integrations, Siebel eBusiness Applications provide you with Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM). EIM can replicate data between Siebel applications and other systems at the database layer and provides high performance for importing or exporting large volumes of data.

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