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Purposes of Siebel eBanking and Siebel eBrokerage
 
Siebel eBanking and Siebel eBrokerage are designed to serve as front-end applications to core processing applications for banks. Enterprise application integration connects these processing applications to the Siebel Business Applications. Table 2 shows the different purposes of the two applications. 
Table 2.	Purposes for Siebel eBanking and Siebel eBrokerage
    Purposes for Siebel eBanking  | 
    Purposes for Core Processing Applications  | 
 
    Serve as a customer relationship management application, keeping track of customer profiles and interactions.  | 
    Serve as the application of record for financial account balances and transactions.  | 
 
    Request data from a bank processing application and display the data to the end user, integrating and personalizing the data using the customer relationship database.  | 
    Maintain financial data and provide data to Siebel eBanking when requested.  | 
 
    Capture financial transaction requests and forward them to a bank processing application.  | 
    Receive, process, and fulfill financial transaction requests.  | 
 
 
 
 
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