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About Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM)

Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM) manages the bidirectional exchange of data between Siebel databases and other corporate databases. This exchange is accomplished through intermediary tables called EIM tables (in earlier releases, these tables were known as interface yables). The EIM tables act as a staging area between the Siebel application database and other databases.

You must use EIM to perform bulk imports, exports, updates, and deletes. Siebel Systems does not support using native SQL to load data directly into Siebel base tables (the tables targeted to receive the data).

For more information on using Siebel EIM, see Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager Administration Guide.