Siebel Enterprise Applications is an integrated suite of enterprise marketing, sales, customer service, and call center management applications. Siebel Enterprise Applications is based on client-server architecture. It can use any of the major relational databases for data storage on the server.

Siebel Enterprise Applications is based on the Siebel Object Model. The Siebel Object Model contains multiple layers that PowerExchange for Siebel interfaces with to retrieve metadata and read and write data.

A Siebel business component is a logical entity that combines columns from base tables, extension tables, and joined tables into a single structure. Siebel tables have columns and indexes that directly correspond to the columns and indexes of physical database tables in the underlying database.

You can import Siebel business components as source and target definitions. You can import a Siebel business service method as a transformation.

The Siebel EIM data integration approach uses Siebel EIM tables, which correspond to Siebel base tables. You can create Siebel EIM transformations to extract bulk data from and load bulk data into Siebel EIM tables and invoke EIM tasks to extract data from or load data into Siebel base tables.