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Data Transformation

Siebel Financial Services EAI provides a declarative data mapper (Siebel Data Mapper) to transform the data expected by Siebel applications (internal integration object) to the data received from the external system (external integration object) and the other way around. A run-time engine, the Industry XML Data Transformation Engine, implements complex domain and structure mapping. XML documents can be mapped so that one document can be transformed into another XML document with programming. For example, data in one system's LastName field can be used in another system's field named Surname. Siebel Financial Services EAI also supports transformation of heterogeneous messages.

NOTE:  This type of exchange can take place within middleware, or between internal and external applications.

Cross-Application Process Integration The Siebel Financial Service platform supports workflow control in order to achieve process level integration between Siebel applications and external applications. You use the Siebel Workflow Designer to define the integration processes and Siebel Workflow Engine to execute and manage integration processes.

The business services you use to build the workflow process can be a prebuilt component, such as a transport adapter and the Industry XML Dispatcher, or can be custom developed at design time or run time using one of the Siebel Scripting languages.