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Chapter 1 Introduction : What is an Adapter?

What is an Adapter?
To deploy the best solution for each aspect of your business, you usually have to purchase applications from several different application vendors. Unfortunately, vendors typically have their own way to format and expose data. Therefore integrating the various applications across your enterprise poses significant challenges.
An adapter provides a bridge between an application and your TIBCO integration environment. Using a no-coding approach to integration, TIBCO Adapters enable packaged applications, databases, and other technologies to become active participants in the enterprise information flow, regardless of their data formats or communication protocols. Integration of new applications does not require programming skills and does not interfere with existing infrastructure.
Adapters isolate the application from more complex actions. Message transformation and business process automation can be handled once the data is published to the TIBCO infrastructure.
As shown in the next diagram, adapters allow data to be exchanged among different technologies.
Adapters are available for off-the-shelf applications from leading vendors. Each adapter integrates with at least one, and usually several, of the interfaces exposed by the vendor application.
Database adapters enable an enterprise’s database to initiate important business processes based on exception data they identify. Database adapters also make data available to the enterprise.
Mainframe adapters enable real-time two way communication between them and the rest of a companies’ business applications and databases.

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