Siebel Disconnected Analytics offers the ability to use Siebel Analytics dashboards while disconnected from the corporate network. A Disconnected Analytics application is a package of Siebel Analytics dashboards with supporting data and metadata.

Disconnected Analytics applications are usually organized according to business areas. For example, your Siebel Analytics administrator might make one application covering sales and another covering marketing campaigns. You can keep more than one Disconnected Analytics application on your laptop, although only one application can be active and running at one time.

Using the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager, you can update and administer the Disconnected Analytics applications on your laptop.

Components of Disconnected Analytics Applications

A Disconnected Analytics application is a local version of the Siebel Analytics platform running on your laptop. It includes the following components:

• A personalized version of Siebel Analytics dashboards

  You can access your personal Siebel Intelligence Dashboards as you would if you were logged on to the Siebel Analytics Web. The dashboards may include your own versions of the enterprise-level dashboards, with any special data filters you may add.

• Personalized and secure data from the Siebel Analytics enterprise database

  You can download data from the network to your laptop and save reports you have created separately from group data and reports.

• Disconnected Analytics Application Manager

  This utility allows you to use and manage Disconnected Analytics applications on your laptop while disconnected from the network. It also allows you to synchronize the data for Disconnected Analytics applications with data on the network. Once installed, you can access the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager from the Windows Start menu.

These components are included in the installation file sent to you by your Siebel Analytics administrator. In technical terms, what the installation file sets up are:

• The local (that is, the laptop) repository

  Contains metadata about the data tables available in the local application. Note that this repository is not a subset of the server repository; it is created independently. A Disconnected Analytics application has only one repository.

• The local Web Catalog

  Contains metadata about the reports available in the local application. This Web Catalog is not a subset of the server Web Catalog; it is created independently. A Disconnected Analytics application has only one Web Catalog.

• An SQL Anywhere database

  Stores the downloaded data. A Disconnected Analytics application has one or more data sets.
  A data set consists of one or more tables.

Additional Resources

The following Siebel documentation contains information that may be relevant to your use of Siebel Disconnected Analytics.

• For information about installation and configuration tasks related to Siebel Disconnected Analytics, see Siebel Analytics Installation and Configuration Guide.
• For information about administrative tasks related to Siebel Disconnected Analytics, see Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide.