The Siebel Financial Services eBusiness platform combines a set of tools, technologies, and prebuilt functional integration components to facilitate application integration. This set of products are referred to as Siebel Financial Services eBusiness Application Integration (eAI). Siebel Financial Services eAI is an EAI solution built on top of Siebel eAI offered by Siebel Systems. 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 such as IBM MQSFSE.

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

• Allow configurable messages within 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.

For more information on Siebel eAI, see Siebel Financial Services eBusiness Application Integration Guide and Overview: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume I.