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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management

By : Alexander Hansal
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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

Understanding hardware and software prerequisites


Many problems in Siebel CRM projects arise from improper planning. As we learned, delivering a decent planning document is a key milestone of our Siebel CRM implementation project.

The success of the installation process we will start in the next chapter relies on the correct installation of third-party software on the correct hardware.

Therefore, it is very important that any person involved in planning and conducting a Siebel CRM installation has access to the Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms document that can be downloaded from the Oracle Technology Network website: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11886_01/srsphomepage.html.

This document is available for each individual Siebel CRM version and outlines in detail the minimum hardware requirements and software prerequisites.

For example, if we plan to provide a prototype environment for evaluation and testing of Siebel CRM 8.1 and would like to use Microsoft Windows Server...