Siebel Integration Messages

This chapter describes Siebel integration messages. It includes the following topics:

About the Siebel Financial Services Business Platform

The Siebel Financial Services Business platform combines a set of tools, technologies, and prebuilt functional integration components to facilitate application integration. This set of products is referred to as Siebel Financial Services Business Application Integration (EAI). Siebel Financial Services EAI is an EAI solution built on top of Siebel EAI offered by Oracle. Siebel Financial Services EAI provides an integration solution using industry XML standards. These standards have been adopted by the industry and extended by middleware companies such as IBM MQSFSE.

Siebel Financial Services EAI is designed as a set of interfaces that interact with each other and with other components within the Siebel application. These interfaces:

Allow configurable messages within Siebel Tools for exchanging information using the various industry XML standards.
Expose internal Siebel Objects to external applications.
Take advantage of prebuilt adapters and enterprise connectors, and are compatible with third-party adapters and connectors.
Allow prebuilt XML connectors for Siebel applications.
Allow for comprehensive data transformation.
Allow extension for customized XML connectors by providing the Siebel Industry XML Connector Factory API.

For more information on Siebel EAI, see Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration Guide and Overview: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

Siebel Healthcare Integration Messages

Siebel Healthcare includes a number of integration messages designed to support key business processes for the healthcare industry. The following table describes these messages by defining the message type, the message purpose, the target application, and where you can find more information about it.

Type	Message	Target Application	Description
ASI	Request Add/Cancel Group Policy Member	Policy Administration System	A message to add or cancel a group policy member. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Response Add/Cancel Individual Policy Member	Policy Administration System	A message to add or cancel an individual policy member. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Request Authorization	Referrals and Authorizations System	A message to search for appropriate providers. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Request Benefit Detail	Benefits System	A message to submit information required for determining eligibility. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Request Member Details Update	Membership System	A message to update demographic and contact details for a member. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Request Preliminary Rating	Rating Engine	A message to request a preliminary rate based on census and plan information. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Request Providers	Provider System	A message requesting benefit detail. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Request Referral	Referrals and Authorizations System	A message to submit authorization request. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.
ASI	Update Provider Details	Provider System	A message to update the demographic and contact details for a provider. For information, see Siebel Application Services Interface Reference.