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.
Many vendor applications have been integrated into the TIBCO environment using adapters. The most commonly used adapters are described in Appendix A, Adapter Types. Before integrating an adapter at your site, you should have working knowledge of the vendor application.
Each adapter’s documentation set includes a User’s Guide and Release Notes. Many adapters also have an Examples Guide. The documentation set describes how to configure an adapter to interoperate with the vendor application, and with TIBCO infrastructure tools.
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