Bookshelf v7.5: Introduction

This guide explains the details of the transports and interfaces technology of Siebel eBusiness Application Integration (Siebel eAI), including MQSeries, MSMQ, OLE DB Provider, BizTalk interface, and Java Data Beans.

Although job titles and duties at your company may differ from those presented in the following table, the audience for this guide consists primarily of employees in these categories:


Business Analysts	Persons responsible for analyzing application integration challenges and planning integration solutions at an enterprise.
Siebel Application Administrators	Persons responsible for planning, setting up, and maintaining Siebel applications.
Siebel Application Developers	Persons who plan, implement, and configure Siebel applications, possibly adding new functionality.
Siebel Integration Developers	Persons responsible for analyzing a business situation or using the analysis of a business analyst to build the integration solution at an enterprise for Siebel applications.
Siebel System Administrators	Persons responsible for the whole system, including installing, maintaining, and upgrading Siebel applications.
System Integrators	Persons responsible for analyzing a business situation or using the analysis of a business analyst to build the integration solution at an enterprise for specific applications and or to develop custom solutions.

The audience for this book also needs to have experience in data integration, data transformation (data mapping), scripting or programming, and XML.

Product Modules and Options

This Siebel Bookshelf contains descriptions of modules that are optional and for which you may not have purchased a license. Siebel's Sample Database also includes data related to these optional modules. As a result, your software implementation may differ from descriptions in this Bookshelf. To find out more about the modules your organization has purchased, see your corporate purchasing agent or your Siebel sales representative.