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About SAI for Oracle Fusion Middleware

SAI for Oracle Fusion Middleware is an enterprise application integration infrastructure that allows you to create composite applications with a single view of data in the entire enterprise. A composite application is an application built by combining multiple existing functions into a new application drawn from several different sources. The components can be individual selected functions from within other applications, or entire data management systems whose outputs have been packaged as business functions, modules, or Web services.

Using SAI for Oracle Fusion Middleware, you can resolve inherent integration challenges because you can do the following:

• Present information from multiple applications in a composite application.
• Comply with evolving integration standards. Avoid long design and implementation cycles.
• Experience higher volumes and faster response times.
• Use your existing investment in Siebel Business Applications integration to accelerate the development of composite applications.
• Use Siebel RESTful Services to access data in Siebel Business Applications.
• Design and deploy XML Schema Definitions (XSDs) for use with Siebel RESTful services.
• Use service-oriented architecture (SOA) development and Siebel integration resources.
• Design and deploy Siebel inbound and outbound Web services.

SAI for Oracle Fusion Middleware is built on Oracle's standards-compliant middleware. Session management and user impersonation provide a more linear progression when scaling for modern integration patterns, and you use new migration tools to move existing Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Web services to the new architecture. And, because there is no dependence on Siebel integration resources, there is enhanced performance for SOA development.

Some of the benefits of using SAI for Oracle Fusion Middleware include:

• Faster time to market
• Enhanced performance and scalability
• Additional capability for managing and scaling integration independently
• Enhanced standards compliance with greater alignment to standards evolution
• New technologies that make designing and implementing SOA architectures and solutions easier
• Ability to migrate functionality in phases that suit an organization's specific requirements