1. Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration Guide
  2. Integration Requirements and Siebel Financial Services EAI

Integration Requirements and Siebel Financial Services EAI

The following table maps real-world data and application integration requirements with their corresponding Siebel Financial Services EAI features.

Integration Requirements Siebel Financial Services EAI Features and Components Notes

Metadata Definition

XML Metadata

External application metadata

  • Integration objects based on Siebel business objects

  • Integration objects based on external metadata

  • FINS ACORD Wizard

  • FINS IFX Wizard

  • FINS OFX Wizard

In any integration project, you need a way to supply data about data, called metadata. Siebel Financial Services applications provides XML as the common format for representing external application data. In addition, Siebel Financial Services applications provides an object type in Siebel Tools called the Integration Object, as well as an Integration Object Wizard, which automates the task of creating integration objects.

Data Transformation

Declarative data transformation mapping

High-performance transformation engine

  • Siebel Data Mapper

Siebel Financial Services EAI allows you define what type of data is to be exchanged, and allows you to export a DTD for a Siebel integration object.

Industry standards-based Integration Mechanism

  • Interactive Financial Exchange XML (IFX XML) as a format for data exchange

  • ACORD XML as a format for data exchange

  • Any other industry XML standards or industry XML alike standards

See Siebel Financial Services Connector for IFX XML Guide, and Siebel Financial Services Connector for ACORD P&C and Surety Guide.

Also see Industry XML Connector Factory APIsand Industry XML Connector.

Business Process Coordination

  • Workflow Process Designer

  • Workflow Process Manager

See Business Process Coordination Using Workflows.

Transport Mechanisms (for interfacing with other technologies)

Transport Adapters:

  • IBM MQ Series

  • Microsoft MSMQ
  • HTTP

See Transport Mechanisms.

High Volume Data Exchange

  • EIM (Enterprise Integration Manager)

See Overview: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration and Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager Administration Guide.