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About Siebel EAI

The Siebel Business Platform includes a set of tools, technologies, and prebuilt functional integrations that facilitate application integration. This set of products is referred to as Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (Siebel EAI).

Siebel EAI provides components for integrating Siebel Business Applications with external applications and technologies within your company and is designed to work with third-party solutions such as those from IBM, TIBCO, WebMethods, and others.

Siebel EAI provides bidirectional real-time and batch solutions for integrating Siebel applications with other applications.

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

• Allow a flexible service-based architecture, built on top of configurable messages using XML and other formats.
• Are compatible with IBM MQSeries; Microsoft MSMQ; Sun Microsystems Java and J2EE; XML, and HTTP, and many other 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 for data transformation.
• Integrate external data through Virtual Business Components (VBCs) and External Business Components (EBCs).
• Provide a graphical business process designer, programmatic interfaces, and a high-volume batch interface.