Bookshelf v7.5.2: Introduction

Introduction

This guide provides a reference book for Siebel Tools providing information on Siebel Tools architecture, object layers, configuration, templates, tags, and repositories.

This book will be useful primarily to people whose titles or job descriptions match one of the following:


Database Administrators	Persons who administer the database system, including data loading, system monitoring, backup and recovery, space allocation and sizing, and user account management.
Siebel Application Administrators	Persons responsible for planning, setting up, and maintaining Siebel applications.
Siebel Application Developers	Persons who plan, implement, and configure Siebel applications, possibly adding new functionality.
Siebel System Administrators	Persons responsible for the whole system, including installing, maintaining, and upgrading Siebel applications.

To do the tasks described in this book, you need to have a thorough understanding of:

The Siebel application environment and data model

The Microsoft Windows operating environment

Application development concepts and processes

Relational database concepts

Object-oriented application design

Configuring Siebel applications using Siebel Tools includes many or all of the following tasks; you should have prior experience in doing similar tasks:

Installing Siebel applications and Siebel Tools

Setting up the Siebel application development environment (for example, workstations and servers)

Installing and setting up the relational DBMS where the native data is stored

Importing existing native data into your Siebel application

Modifying or creating new Siebel object definitions

Writing Siebel VB or Siebel eScript application code