A Siebel Business Service transformation is a passive transformation that you can use to invoke business service methods. Use Siebel business services to move data and convert data formats between Siebel and external applications. For example, the Authentication business service is a Siebel business service that takes credentials of users as the input and generates the user name and role of the user as output.

Business service methods transfer data between Siebel and external applications. You can use a Siebel Business Service transformation to perform complex calculations or specialized functions.

When you run a session with a Siebel Business Service transformation, the PowerCenter Integration Service connects to a Siebel server and invokes the business service method.

Use the Import from Siebel Wizard to create a Siebel Business Service transformation. When you connect to Siebel, the wizard displays the metadata for the business services. In the wizard, select a Siebel business service method to generate Siebel Business Service transformation. In addition to the primitive datatypes such as Number, Date, and String, business methods also take integration objects and hierarchy objects as arguments.