Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM) is a Siebel server component that manages bulk data movement between the Siebel database and the other corporate data sources. Siebel EIM is primarily used to extract bulk data from or load bulk data into the Siebel database. You can use Siebel EIM to perform insert, update, merge, or delete operations for bulk data.

Based on the Siebel architecture, you cannot directly perform operations on the Siebel base tables. Instead, you have to use staging tables, called Siebel EIM tables, to transfer bulk data to and from Siebel tables, known as the Siebel base tables.

The following figure shows the Siebel EIM architecture:

If you configure an EIM task to export bulk data from base tables into EIM tables, Siebel EIM runs the EIM task on the Siebel server. You can use the Siebel EIM Read transformation to extract bulk data from Siebel EIM tables, and then write the data to corporate data sources.

You can use the Siebel EIM Load transformation to load bulk data from corporate data sources into the Siebel EIM tables. Next, you configure an EIM task to import bulk data from EIM tables into base tables. Siebel EIM runs the EIM task on the Siebel server.

To configure an EIM task to import, export, merge, or delete rows from the Siebel base table, configure the EIM configuration (.ifb) file.