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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management

By : Alexander Hansal
Book Image

Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management

By: Alexander Hansal

Overview of this book

Oracle’s Siebel CRM is market-leading Customer Relationship Management software. Unmatched in functionality and scalability, Siebel enhances a company’s sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides a robust Customer Relationship Management system for an organization.This practical book offers a comprehensive understanding of Siebel CRM. It is your safe vessel for navigating the deep waters of Siebel installation and system management.This book is a complete exercise in installing and managing Oracle’s Siebel CRM for your organization. You will understand the Siebel architecture and install it piece by piece. In easy-to-follow chapters, the book will guide you through the installation of Siebel server, client and third-party reporting software on Microsoft Windows and Linux, covering everything from the planning the process and software download to the installation and configuration tasks.After reading this book, you will feel fully prepared for setting up multiple servers and multi-lingual configurations. This book fosters your general understanding of the intricate features and functionality of Oracle Siebel CRM. In addition, you will learn how to support development environments and how to migrate configuration changes between environments using Application Deployment Manager.Another benefit of this book is that it teaches administrators how to establish system monitoring strategies to identify and avoid performance bottlenecks. When you have finished the book, you will feel prepared to install and manage Oracle’s Siebel CRM in a real-world environment. In addition, you will know some tricks that even seasoned experts will envy.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing the Siebel Web Architecture
Index

Introduction to Siebel Remote


As indicated above, Siebel Remote is the result of many years of design and development. In the following, we will explore the fundamental concepts of Siebel Remote.

The following diagram defines the major building blocks of the Siebel Remote architecture:

We observe that from a high-level perspective, the architecture consists of Siebel server components, files generated and read by those components, and the Mobile Web Client.

The following table describes the building blocks numbered in the above diagram. Each of the components will be explained in more detail later in the chapter:

Number

Component

Description

1

Generate New Database

A server component that is responsible for reading the current schema of the server database and generate a database template on the Siebel server.

2

Database Extract

This server component extracts the data snapshot for each registered mobile client and stores it as a set of files on the Siebel server.

3

Transaction Processor...