The ATG Integration Framework includes the Integration Repository, which adds to ATG’s Repository feature the ability to represent data on external systems as ATG repository items. The Integration Repository provides several key features for integrating ATG with external systems:
You can execute queries from ATG against remote systems. The Integration Repository represents the results of the queries as repository items.
You can create queries using RQL or other ATG query building techniques, and the Integration Repository translates the queries into the format required by the remote system.
When data from the remote system is represented as repository items, the Integration Repository can automatically submit changes to these items to the remote system without requiring special update calls to a remote system.