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Siebel Business Processes and the Universal Application Network

Siebel Systems' business processes and Siebel Systems' Universal Application Network (UAN) technologies may appear to be similar solutions, but they are two distinct product offerings.

A business process is a set of activities organized to achieve a business objective. The Siebel business processes described in this guide show the cross-industry business process solutions that Siebel applications support. By contrast, the UAN solution includes prebuilt Integration Application Processes (IAPs). These IAPs run on Siebel Systems' partners' integration servers and help connect Siebel applications to other enterprise-class applications for data exchange, synchronization, and update between applications, in a lower-cost and more scalable manner than other currently available approaches.

As such, the business processes provided in this guide depict possible blueprints for using Siebel applications to support your business processes, and they reference UAN IAPs where appropriate. For more information on IAPs in Siebel business process diagrams, see Representing Integration in Subprocess Diagrams.

For more detailed information on UAN and integration application processes, see the documentation provided with the UAN product.


 Siebel Business Process Implementation Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003