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How Siebel C/OM Can Be Integrated with Other SOA Applications

Web Services is the most common enabler of SOA. Siebel Business Applications support both inbound and outbound Web Services. The Siebel application can:

• Generate and read WSDL
• Process and transform XML
• Receive and process Web Service requests over HTTP
• Invoke an external Web Service from any Siebel event, script, or Workflow

Outbound Integration of C/OM Services

You can call an external service from C/OM. Predefined integration interfaces can be implemented or hosted by an external application. Service can be provided by an external application, an integration server, a Siebel business service, or a Siebel business process (workflow).

Figure 2 illustrates services integration for outbound integration.

Figure 2. Services Interfaces for Outbound Integration

Calling an External Service from C/OM

The workflow process shown in Figure 3 provides an example of calling an external service from Siebel order management. The figure shows a workflow process that includes a subprocess called Check Inventory Levels. The subprocess includes a step called Perform Inventory Check, which involves a Web service invocation.

Figure 3. Example: Check Inventory Level During Product Recommendations Algorithm

Web Service Performance

C/OM services such as Pricer or Eligibility are designed to work on batches of data to improve end-user response times. Any external service called by Pricer or Eligibility must support a batched interface that processes an entire set of data (such as all line items in an order) in a single invocation. Thus the overhead associated with Web Service invocation and with context establishment within the Web Service is only incurred once instead of, potentially, hundreds of times.