Integration Requirements for Siebel EAI

The following table describes data and application integration requirements and their corresponding Siebel EAI features.

Integration Requirement	Siebel EAI Feature or Component	Description
Integration requirements include: Metadata definition XML metadata Metadata for an external application. For example, from an SAP application to an Oracle application, and so forth	Siebel EAI features and components include: Integration objects based on Siebel business objects Integration objects based on external metadata Integration Object Wizard	In an integration project, you must supply metadata. Siebel applications provide XML as the common format for representing external application data. Siebel applications provide an object type in Siebel Tools, the Integration Object, and an Integration Object Wizard, which simplifies the work of creating an integration object.
Integration requirements include: Data transformation Data transformation mapping through declarative configuration High performance transformation engine	Siebel EAI features and components include: Siebel Data Mapper	Siebel EAI allows you to define the type of data to exchange, and allows you to export an XSD or a DTD for a Siebel integration object.
Integration requirements include: Business process coordination	Siebel EAI features and components include: Siebel Workflow Process Designer Workflow Process Manager	For more information, see Business Process Coordination with Siebel Workflow.
Integration requirements include: Transport mechanisms for interfacing with other technologies	Siebel EAI features and components include transport adapters, such as: IBM MQSeries Microsoft MSMQ HTTP Java Message Service	For more information, see Transport Mechanisms.
Integration requirements include: High volume data exchange	Siebel EAI features and components include: Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM)	For more information, see High Volume Data Exchange.
Integration requirements include: Standards based Integration mechanisms	Siebel EAI features and components include: XML as a format for data exchange COM programmatic interfaces Programmatic interfaces based on Java HTTP as a transport protocol	Not applicable.