Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration Guide > Overview of Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration >

About Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration

Oracle's Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration platform combines a set of tools, technologies, and prebuilt functional integration components to facilitate application integration. This set of products is referred to as Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Siebel Financial Services EAI is an EAI solution built on top of Siebel EAI offered by Oracle. Siebel Financial Services EAI provides an integration solution using industry XML standards. These standards have been adopted by the industry and extended by middleware companies, as in IBM's MQSeries Financial Services Edition (MQSFSE).

Siebel Financial Services EAI is designed as a set of interfaces which interact with each other and with other components within the Siebel application. These interfaces:

• Allow configurable messages within Oracle's Siebel Tools for exchanging information using the various industry XML 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 prebuilt XML connectors for Siebel applications.
• Allow for comprehensive data transformation.
• Allow extension for customized XML connectors by providing the Siebel Industry XML Connector Factory API.

NOTE:  For details on Siebel EAI, see Overview: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.