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Configuring Siebel Business Applications > About Business Components, Fields, Joins, and Links > About Business Components > How a Business Component Gets Data from an External DatabaseA virtual business component is a type of business component that references external data. This data is typically real-time information that Siebel CRM gets from an external database, but a virtual business component can reference any source that can supply data in reply to a structured query. You can use a virtual business component if you must get data from a location other than a table in the Siebel database. You can use an external business component (EBC), which is a type of business component that uses ODBC and SQL to supply data. For more information, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration. A virtual business component allows you to do the following:
A virtual business component includes the following qualities:
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