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About Migrating from Siebel eSales to Siebel E-Commerce

Siebel Self-Service Applications provide a migration strategy for existing Siebel eSales deployments to help minimize the customizations needed to grant existing Web users access to Siebel E-Commerce. Data objects used in Siebel eSales are also available in Siebel E-Commerce.

You can migrate only user data from Siebel eSales to Siebel E-Commerce.

If your company has deployed Siebel eSales 7.x or later, and plans to implement Siebel E-Commerce, the applicable user setup considerations are described in this topic.

About Migrating Responsibilities

Siebel E-Commerce uses the same set of responsibilities as those in Siebel eSales. These responsibilities are as follows:

• Web Anonymous User
• Web Registered User
• Web Corporate User
• Web Purchasing Manager
• Web Delegated Customer Administrator
• Web Administrator

In Siebel eSales, these responsibilities control the Siebel Business Application views that users can access through Siebel eSales. In Siebel E-Commerce, these responsibilities control what kinds of permissions each user has, and these permissions determine the Siebel Self-Service Applications Web pages that users can access. Responsibilities are stored in the Siebel Business Applications layer, and permissions are stored in an XML file in the Siebel Self-Service Applications layer. If your current Siebel eSales application uses these responsibilities with the same names and definitions, then when you upgrade, the Siebel eSales users stored in your Siebel Business Application can access the Siebel E-Commerce Web pages.

NOTE:  For Siebel Self-Service Applications deployments with Single Sign-On (SSO) enabled, the responsibilities in the SSO database also correspond to the responsibilities stored in your Siebel Business Application database. For more information about SSO, see Single Sign-On for Siebel Self-Service Applications.