This chapter provides high-level guidelines in how to successfully plan a global deployment. It includes the following topics:

• Understanding Your Company's Global Business Requirements
• Expected Results of Global Deployment Planning
• About Ideal Global Deployments
• About the Siebel Unicode Architecture
• About Planning Your Global Deployment
• About Configuring Global Deployments
• Scenarios for Installing and Deploying Siebel Languages
• Planning Upgrades for Global Deployments