Synchronize data between Siebel and SAP with WebSphere Adapters and WebSphere Process Server

Level: Intermediate

Albert Chung (alchung@us.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

17 Jan 2007

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Learn how you can use IBM® WebSphere® Process Server, WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software, and WebSphere Adapter for Siebel Business Applications to synchronize customer data from Siebel to SAP, including how to create integration modules, interface mediation, data maps, and configure relationships, adapters, and event sequencing.

Overview

This article shows you how to create an SOA application to dynamically synchronize customer data from Siebel to SAP. The application is built on IBM WebSphere Integration Developer Version 6.0.2; it uses WebSphere Adapter for Siebel Business Application Version 6.0.2 and WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software Version 6.0.2. The application runs on WebSphere Process Server Version 6.0.2. Based on a sample end-to-end business scenario, this article takes you step-by-step through the process of creating integration modules, adapter import and export components, mediation components, and business process components.

SAP and Siebel are complex Enterprise Information Systems that use different formats to represent data. In this article, you’ll learn the techniques required to enable successful integration of data from Siebel to SAP. You’ll learn how about event sequencing, a new feature in WebSphere Process Server Version 6.0.2, and how to apply it to the sample data synchronization solution. Data mapping from an element to another element inside an array is currently not supported by the tools, but such mapping is needed to map a Siebel business object to a SAP business object. You’ll learn how to work around this tools limitation.

This article assumes you have a moderate understanding of WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Adapters and WebSphere Process Server. It also assumes you have installed WebSphere Integration Developer Version 6.0.2 along with WebSphere Process Server’s test environments.

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Resources

• IBM WebSphere Adapter Version 6.0.2 information center (part of the WebSphere Business Process Management Information Center)
  
  
• Redbook: WebSphere Adapter Development
  
  
• WebSphere Business Integration zone
  
  
• WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer resources
  
  
• Redbook: Technical Overview of WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer

About the author

		Albert Chung is a software engineer at the IBM Research Triangle Park Lab in Durham, North Carolina. He works on the WebSphere Adapters team. You can reach Albert at alchung@us.ibm.com.

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