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Scenarios for Data that Crosses a Boundary

A business process might be required to cross functional, departmental, or enterprise boundaries. Because different organizations might use different applications, you require a way to make sure an application can hand off the execution of a business process to another application.

Access to Business to Business Data

Business-to-business (B2B) integration allows partner companies to work together in order to satisfy a customer demand. Because B2B is fundamentally about carrying out a transaction over the Internet, the technology must work over the infrastructure that is used with the Internet. To meet this requirement, Siebel EAI provides the EAI HTTP adapter and the Siebel Workflow Process Manager.

Table 7 describes the requirements to implement a B2B transaction.

Access to Legacy Data

Interfacing with a custom legacy application presents challenges that are similar to those described in Access to Business to Business Data. On the Internet, HTTP is a standard protocol that is used to exchange data. In a mainframe environment, IBM MQSeries is a common application messaging transport. Therefore, you can replace the HTTP protocol in this solution with MQSeries and still finish the transaction.

Table 8 describes the requirements to access legacy data that exists on a mainframe.