Overview

Sourcing Integration Services (SIS) includes the enabling technology to develop integrations at a UI to UI level. This capability applies to use cases where a user needs to access the CES catalog from within an external application. Both the cases of searching for catalog information and submitting that data to the external tools are supported.

The Interactive integration part of the SIS framework consists of Webmethods integration server packages. These packages provide a mechanism to realize Launch, View, Search, and Copy functionality.

To enable end-to-end integrations, the SIS interactive services users have to provide an integration connector and an adapter to the external tool. The integration connector maps data between the external tools provided format and a canonical CES format. The external adapter enables communication with the external tool and any customization required within the tool to invoke the SIS interactive services. See Interactive End-to-End Integration for details.

The External tool will invoke the CES catalog by calling SIS interactive services through these extra components.

The SIS interactive services and associated administration user interface are deployed within two webMethods Integration Server packages, namely:

  • CESTM_EIIF

    Package includes the interactive services for integration enablement and administration UI tool.
  • I2TMICB_DXML

    Package includes interface definitions for communication with CES. The canonical CES format used to pass attributes to and from CES using the interactive services is known as ItemData. The defined attributes in this XML format are then mapped to properties and classes in Explore using Translations.  Translations are entries added to the translation classes within CES. See Interactive End-to-End Integration for details.