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About Calls to Pricing Manager

To use Siebel ePricer as a business service, you must create calls to the Pricing Manager business service that satisfy the following three high-level requirements.

The calls must be able to:

• Invoke Pricing Manager, the Siebel ePricer runtime engine.
• Create pricing rules that effectively configure and populate Pricing Administration views.
• Test and validate pricing rules in the integrated suite of products.

  This last task involves different views, depending upon whether you are integrating internal or external modules.

  • If you are testing Internal modules, then you test pricing rules in the Quote Validation view and the Order Validation view.
  • If you are testing external modules, you test pricing rules in the Business Service Simulator or use a test build of your own application with the integrated Pricing Manager business service. The Business Service Simulator can be found in Business Service Administration.

For each kind of interface, this chapter reviews the procedures for completing the high-level requirements. At the end of this chapter is an API guide and an introduction to the Siebel business component user properties that are used to configure the pricing engine.