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Business Functions of Screen Tabs in Siebel Life Sciences


The Siebel Life Sciences interface provides various task-specific screens and views for administrative and end-user functions.

NOTE:  Most administrative tasks are performed from administration screens that are accessed from the Site Map. You cannot access these from the screen tabs.

Table 5 lists the most frequently used Siebel Life Sciences screens and the functions of the views in those screens. The screens listed here appear on the screen tabs.

Table 5.  Siebel Life Sciences Screens
Screen Tab
Functions
For More Information
Accounts
Manage information about accounts (such as hospitals, HMOs, clinics, wholesalers, GPOs, and pharmacies) and affiliate accounts, contacts, and other information about a particular account.
Activities
Manage activities with contacts and accounts, and create contact and account calls (with or without Smart Calls).
Planning Calls in this guide and Siebel Call Center User Guide
Agreements
Manage information about agreements, administrative contracts, and entitlements.
Siebel Field Service Guide, Siebel Sales User Guide
Analysis
Display prescriber, account, plan, payer, and territory-level sales and Rx data.
Using Analysis in this guide
Assets
Manage information about products sold to accounts.
Siebel Field Service Guide
Calendar
Create and display activities (including to-do activities) and share calendar information with coworkers.
Planning Calls in this guide and Fundamentals
Campaigns
Manage outbound communications with prospects targeted for a particular marketing effort.
Siebel Marketing Guide, Siebel Sales User Guide, Siebel Call Center User Guide
Clinical Programs
Manage information about clinical trial programs.
Contacts
Manage information about health care professionals (such as formulary directors, hospital administrators, pharmacists, and physicians) and their affiliations with other contacts and accounts.
Managing Contacts in this guide
Document Tracking
Track documents at multiple levels (Site, Region, or Protocol) for multiple entities (Contact or Account)
In this guide:
Home
This is the first screen you see when you log in to the Siebel Life Sciences application. It is a centralized screen that summarizes contacts, accounts, and activities.
Fundamentals
Literature
Display company- and industry-related literature cataloged by the Siebel administrator.
Siebel Sales User Guide
MedEd
Manage medical education events.
Managing MedEd Events in this guide
Objectives
Define objectives for contacts and accounts and monitor progress made toward meeting goals.
Objectives in this guide
Opportunities
Manage formulary opportunities and affiliate contacts, accounts, and other information with a particular opportunity.
Siebel Sales User Guide
Orders
Manage information about samples ordered by physicians through your company's Web site, as well as all goods and service orders recorded by the service organization.
Siebel Order Management Guide
Payments
Keep track of payments pertaining to clinical trial activities at sites.
Products
Display current product information, including key features and product trends.
Managing Products in this guide
Protocols
Maintain information about clinical trial protocols.
Quotes
Automatically generate quotes tailored to meet customer requirements.
Product Administration Guide and Siebel Sales User Guide
Regions
Manage region or country level information about clinical trial protocols.
Routes
Create routes to schedule regular visits to groups of accounts.
Planning Calls in this guide
Samples
Organize phases of samples workflow: shipments, orders, adjustments, inventory counts, and reconciliation.
Managing Samples in this guide
Service Requests
Manage requests for medical or product information and related activities and attachments.
Siebel Field Service Guide
Site Management
Manage information about a particular clinical trial site, including associated contacts, subjects, activities, payments, and site visits.
SmartScripts
Define the application workflow for an interactive situation in a script. These interactive situations could include inbound communications (such as customer service) and outbound contacts (such as telemarketing).
Siebel SmartScript Administration Guide
Smart Calls
Create and edit Smart Call templates that are applied in the Contact Call Detail and Account Call Detail views.
Creating Smart Calls in this guide
Solutions
Enter and display resolutions successfully used for reported problems.
Siebel Field Service Guide, Siebel Call Center User Guide
Subjects
Manage information about clinical trial subjects.
Targeting
Perform queries on profile information (such as best times to call and market ranking), as well as sales and Rx data, in order to generate target lists of contacts or accounts.
Planning Calls in this guide
Time Off Territory
Manage information about time when sales representatives and field personnel are out of their territories, not working on activities directly associated with accounts, contacts, or opportunities.


 Siebel Life Sciences Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003