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I have seen developers discussing different ways to integrate third party applications with Siebel. Hope this nicely elaborated article will help you understanding this better. Click to read the rest of this article »

Virtual business components (VBCs) are mechanisms in Siebel EAI by which data from an external system can be viewed in Siebel applications without having to replicate that data within the Siebel Database. We will discuss VBC in a series of 4 articles. Here is the first one, which will help you in understanding why we require VBC and what are VBC’s?.
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An Application Services Interface (ASI) is a release-independent interface published by Siebel Systems that allows you to integrate Siebel applications with external applications.

ASIs are published in a standard metadata format, such as Extensible Markup Language Document Type Definitions (XML DTD) and Web Services Descriptive Language/XML Schemas (WSDL/XSD) and are built using the ASI Framework. Click to read the rest of this article »

Siebel EAI provides adapters and connectors to help create integrations between Siebel applications and external applications.

• Siebel EAI adapter provides the low-level interface mechanism to allow one application to talk to another.
• Siebel EAI connectors provide low-level connectivity to other back-office applications, such as SAP Click to read the rest of this article »

A Web Service is programmable application logic that is accessible using standard Internet protocols. Web Services combine component-based development and the Internet and can be reused regardless of how the service is implemented. 

Web Services are based on communication protocols that include HTTP, XML, Simple Object Application Protocol (SOAP), and Web Services Description Language (WSDL).   Click to read the rest of this article »

Virtual business components (VBCs) are mechanisms in Siebel EAI by which data from an external system can be viewed in Siebel applications without having to replicate that data within the Siebel Database.

 VBCs are configured in Siebel Tools and use Business Services to access data from an external system. VBCs can use standard transports like MQSeries, HTTP, and MSMQ, along with the XML Gateway Service, to query, insert, and update data.

Introduction to Interface

Organizations need to integrate business processes across a large number of disparate applications in order to drive revenue growth, increase productivity, and gain visibility into business performance.

To integrate Siebel Business Applications into the Universal Application Network, Siebel Systems continues to enhance the integration tool set within Siebel applications—Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (Siebel EAI).

About Siebel EAI 

Siebel EAI provides components for integrating Siebel Business Applications with external applications and technologies within your company and is designed to work with third-party solutions such as those from IBM, TIBCO, WebMethods, and others.  Click to read the rest of this article »

Any standard Business Component supports data operations like init, query,insert, update, delete etc via the base component “class”.
VBC’s support these operations via an associated business service and we are responsible for implementing all these data operations as methods on the
associated business service. A special case is in using “XML Gateway”business service that allows the data for each of these operations to be
passed as a set of pre-defined XML schemas. EBC is new as of Siebel77 and supports configuring business components against data stored in an external database (NOT the siebeldb), via External Table object definitions and a special “class” implements all the data operations (CSSBCVExtern or some such class). The limitation, if we may call it that, is that the external database must be a supported database server
of Siebel like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server etc.So for integrations, if it is a supported data source then it is recommended to use EBC’s as that also means less amount of scripting (mandatory for VBC’s) and use VBC’s only if it is an un-supported data source.

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