What are the requirements for Marketing Operations Integration Services?

Marketing Operations Integration Services must:

  • Loosely couple system integration.
  • Provide a mechanism for customer applications to affect Marketing Operations through webservice calls.
  • Provide a mechanism for customer applications to be notified of certain events in Marketing Operations.
  • Provide a simple programming model that is easy to understand and use.
  • Be robust when recovering from failure.
  • Guarantee data integrity.
  • Integrate with, and minimize the effect on, existing Marketing Operations GUI-based customers.
  • Provide fine-grained access to Marketing Operations components while insulating programmers from underlying implementation details.