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Siebel eAI Overview

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Siebel eAI provides components for integrating Siebel eBusiness Applications with external applications and technologies within your company and is designed to work with third-party solutions such as those from IBM, CrossWorlds, TIBCO, Vitria, SeeBeyond, webMethods, and others.

Siebel eAI provides bidirectional real-time and batch solutions for integrating Siebel applications with other applications as well as the tools for cross application integration through UAN.

Siebel eAI is designed as a set of interfaces that interact with each other and with other components within Siebel application. These interfaces:

Allow a flexible service-based architecture, built on top of configurable messages using XML and other formats.
Are compatible with IBM MQSeries; Microsoft MSMQ, BizTalk, and OLE DB; Sun Microsystems Java and J2EE; XML, and HTTP, and many other standards.
Expose internal Siebel Objects to external applications.
Take advantage of prebuilt adapters and enterprise connectors, and are compatible with third-party adapters and connectors.
Allow for data transformation.
Integrate external data through Virtual Business Components (VBCs).
Provide a graphical business process designer, programmatic interfaces, and a high-volume batch interface.

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