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Preparing for Gap Analysis

To best prepare for gap analysis, you must understand the following components of your analytic solution:

• Your source system. You can do this by understanding:
  • How you use the default features of your source system. Use your source system's standard documentation.
  • How you have customized your source system. Use any documentation that describes modifications to the source system's default configuration. These documents may provide information on the effect that customizations to your source system have on how data is stored in the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse.
• The custom columns. The custom columns you need that fall outside of the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse data model.
• The Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse. You can do this by understanding:
  • The architecture of the product
  • Each data warehouse table column's origin in your transaction source system
  • Each column's business meaning and expected values
• Your business rules. How your business rules differ from the ones assumed by the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse.

Guidelines for Populating the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse

You are ready to embark on gap analysis for the back end as soon as you have populated the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse with the data. The following list provides recommended steps for populating the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse:

1. Complete the installation and initialization processes described in the previous installation chapters of this guide.
2. Use the default configuration to complete one entire extract and load cycle to populate the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse with your data.

After the data warehouse is populated, you are ready to begin gap analysis.