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How This Guide Is Organized

The first few chapters in this book cover a sample business case and other basic information to get you started. The chapters in the remainder of the book are presented in an order that loosely corresponds with the three stages of an implementation: development, test, and production.

Read chapters 1, 2, and 3 first. They will help you understand the business case used as an example throughout the book, the example software and hardware environments, and the basic tasks for using Siebel Tools.

The tasks in chapters, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are designed to give you hands-on configuration experience. You can follow them like a tutorial, using your sample database as your datasource.

The tasks in chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 chapters walk through examples of using Business Process Designer, Assignment Manger, Personalization, and Siebel Remote. While you can follow along with these tasks, entering data as you go, to end up with a working example, you need the requisite Siebel environment to be set up and running, which is outside the scope of this book. For example, to see a working example of Business Process Designer, you need to properly configure the Siebel server environment and email environment.

These tasks in chapter 15 give you an overview of how the example company rolled out its application to the production environment.