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About Creating and Modifying Business Adapters

Business adapters consist of a Business Component mapplet and a Source Adapter mapplet. A single business adapter extracts a specific type of data (for example, sales order data) from a specific source (for example, SAP R/3), translates it into understandable business language where required, and prepares it for the source-independent Analytic Data Interface (ADI).

Because business adapters are source-specific, only certain business adapters for prepackaged sources are included in Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse. If you are extracting data from a source for which no prepackaged business adapters are available, you can feed data into Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse through a flat file, using Siebel Business Analytics' universal business adapters. You can also build your own business adapters.

As you begin creating new mappings, you may also need to create, or modify, mapplets, transformations, and so on. The following sections provide instructions for modifying the Business Component mapplet and the Source Adapter mapplet. Within each procedure, you can also find how to modify the transformations contained in the mapplets.