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Siebel BizTalk Server Adapter

With Siebel Business Applications support for Microsoft BizTalk Server, you can share Siebel data with external and internal contemporary and legacy systems by generating and exchanging XML documents through BizTalk Server, without having to create a custom solution or write custom code. This allows for interaction between business processes within a single organization, partners in e-commerce communities, and automated procurement arrangements. The Siebel interface for BizTalk Server provides the following features and functionality.

• Generation and Transformation of XML Documents. To convert your schema into a trading partner's schema (and their schema to yours) using Microsoft's BizTalk Mapper GUI tool. BizTalk Mapper generates W3C-standard Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation-based maps to perform the translation between trading partners' schema. This allows you to create and edit DTD schema and XDR and convert them to a partner's schema format.
• XML Support. To simplify B2B and internal systems data exchange, document exchanges made through the Siebel BizTalk interface are in W3C-standard XML. Document transformation is in W3C-standard XSLT.

  XML messages are the key substrate of application integration. Siebel applications can exchange XML messages with other application systems through Microsoft's BizTalk Server over standard protocols and transports. The interface between Siebel applications and BizTalk Server supports both the Siebel application as the message sender and the Siebel application as the message receiver.

  The Siebel BizTalk interface provides a comprehensive mechanism for interacting with Siebel APIs in order to both get (extract) and put (insert or update) information. On an outbound request from the Siebel client, the Siebel application converts the external interface object into XML and sends it to its destination. On an inbound transaction from an external system, the Siebel application receives an XML message, which is then validated against the appropriate Siebel integration object.

  NOTE:  For more information on Siebel applications and XML, see the XML Reference: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration guide.

• Support for Multiple Transports and Protocols. To allow for different options when sending and receiving data through BizTalk Server. The Siebel BizTalk adapter supports Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), Application Integration Component (AIC), Component Object Model (COM), and File.