When Siebel CRM was designed in the mid-nineties, the initial idea was to create a sales force automation (SFA) system that allowed traveling sales representatives to capture customer data on site and synchronize with the company server later in the day.
This is how Siebel Remote, the module supporting synchronization of mobile client data with the server database, came into existence. Even in a time of ubiquitous Internet access, applications that allow for working with the data offline are still widely adopted. The simple reason behind this fact is that full time wireless access to the company network is still either too costly or impossible to achieve.
Siebel Remote is a module that is used in each and every Siebel CRM project around the world, even if the company never deploys mobile clients. This is because Siebel developers rely on the mechanisms to create and synchronize local databases in order to obtain a secure workspace...