We have learned above that access to data in Siebel CRM can be controlled for each record individually. On the one hand, this is necessary and required but on the other hand, there is a high level of effort required to manage data visibility on a record-by-record basis.
For this reason, Siebel CRM provides the ability to create catalogs that are divided into categories and grant access on the catalogue or category level. The ability to create catalogs is limited to the so-called Siebel master data entities.
Siebel master data can be described as relatively static, authored data such as products or documents. Such records will only be created and modified by a small group of administrators but referenced very often by the business users. Product records are typically grouped to sales catalogs to provide easier presentation and browsing of product data in online portals. Instead of associating each product with a user or group directly, access control takes...