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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

Enabling and configuring Siebel Remote server components


The Siebel Remote component group contains all necessary components to support mobile clients. Administrators must enable this component group on one server in the Siebel enterprise. The Siebel Remote component group consists of the following components:

  • Transaction Processor

  • Transaction Router

  • Transaction Merger

  • Synchronization Manager

  • Generate New Database

  • Database Extract

  • Parallel Database Extract

  • Replication Agent

The following table describes these components and provides information about the need to enable these components for a Siebel development environment or for mobile end users:

Component

Description

Enable for developers

Enable for mobile users

Transaction Processor

Extracts all record transactions from the server database (table S_DOCK_TXN_LOG) to files in the txnproc directory on the Siebel Server.

No

Yes

Transaction Router

Reads the files generated by the Transaction Processor and generates user-specific transaction...