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Siebel Enterprise Application Integration

Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (Siebel EAI) is the set of products on the Siebel Business Platform that includes tools, technologies, and prebuilt functional integrations that facilitate application integration. Some of the features provided by Siebel EAI include:

• Provides components to integrate Siebel Business Applications with external applications and technologies within your company
• Works with third-party solutions, such as solutions from IBM, TIBCO, WebMethods, and so forth
• Provides bidirectional, real time and batch solutions to integrate Siebel applications with other applications
• Provides a set of interfaces that interact with each other and with other components within a Siebel application. Some of the features that these interfaces provide include:
  • Provides a flexible, service based architecture that is built on top of configurable messages using XML and other formats
  • Provides compatibility with IBM MQSeries, Microsoft MSMQ, Sun Microsystems Java and J2EE, XML, HTTP, and other standards.
  • Provides access of internal Siebel Objects to an external application
  • Takes advantage of prebuilt adapters and enterprise connectors
  • Provides compatibility with third-party adapters and connectors
  • Provides data transformation
  • Integrates external data through virtual business components and external business components
  • Provides a graphical business process designer, programmatic interfaces, and a high volume batch interface