Suppose you want to synchronize customer information between Siebel and a mainframe program. You set up the Siebel Adapter to interact with the Siebel application and the EntireX Adapter to interact with the mainframe program. Since EntireX architecture is symmetric, you can use push or pull methods.

To get data from Siebel to the mainframe program, you have the Siebel Adapter monitor the Siebel application for new or changed data. The adapter transforms the data from Siebel's proprietary format into the appropriate Software AG internal format and passes it to Integration Server. Integration Server processes the data and then passes it to the EntireX Adapter, which transforms it into the mainframe program's format and inserts it into the system. To get data from the mainframe program to Siebel, you use the same process, in reverse.