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About Scoping Your Configuration Project

After you have completed the initialization process as described in the installation chapters, the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse is ready to be populated using the default configuration. Although the default configuration produces data in the data warehouse, which is used to populate your front-end analytic environment, it may not accurately reflect your business models. Your company may have unique business rules and requirements that depart from the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse's prepackaged assumptions.

For example, your definition of a sales order may not be the same as the definition in the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse. In addition to storing sales orders as defined by the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse, the Sales Order table in your source system may also store sales inquiries, sales estimates, or other customized data to suit your specific needs. If your definition of sales orders is either more general or more specific than the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse definition, you must configure the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse to store the data you require. The research required to determine which areas you need to configure is called gap analysis. For more information, see Gap Analysis.