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DAC Licensing Options in Siebel Data Warehouse 7.7.1

Siebel Data Warehouse 7.7.1 includes two licensing options for the Data Warehouse Application Console (DAC).

The DAC Lite version:

Is included with any Analytics application
Allows you to build and execute ETL plans
Is suitable for small data warehouses with little or no customization

The DAC version:

Is an optional license
Is suitable for large data warehouses with multiple customizations
Minimizes ETL execution time by using optimization techniques

Table 33 summarizes the differences between the DAC and DAC Lite versions.

Table 33. Differences between DAC and DAC Lite
Feature	DAC Lite	DAC
Develop data warehouse applications
Manage metadata driven dependencies and relationships	P	P
Provide metadata validation checks	P	P
Generate additional change capture DWQL scripts		P
Directly import database and Informatica objects		P
Additional change capture filtering		P
Utilize high-performance execution techniques
Task queue optimization engine		P
Load balancing across multiple ETL servers		P
Unlimited ETL session concurrency		P
Automate full and refresh mode optimization rules	P	P
Restart from point of failure	P	P
Provide analysis to isolate bottlenecks
Error monitoring and email alerting		P
Structured ETL analysis and reporting		P

DAC Server Features Not Available with DAC Lite

The following DAC server features are not available with the DAC Lite version of the Siebel Data Warehouse 7.7.1:

Optimized queuing

Change capture filtering

Support for multiple Informatica servers.

NOTE: The DAC Lite version supports one Informatica server and five tasks running in parallel.

DAC Client Features Not Available with DAC Lite

The following DAC client features are not available with the DAC Lite version of the Siebel Data Warehouse 7.7.1:

Output to File (right-click menu)

Update Rows (right-click menu)

Output Task Description (right-click menu on Task Definitions tab)

Generate View Scripts (right-click menu on Tables tab)

Generate Change Capture SQL (right-click menu on Tables tab)

Import Database Tables (right-click menu on Task Definitions tab)

Import Indices (right-click menu on Task Definitions)

Auto Refresh (right-click menu and toolbar on Current Run tab)

Analyze Run (right-click menu on Run History tab)

Get Chart (right-click menu and toolbar on Current Run tab)

Get Phase Chart (right-click menu and toolbar on Current Run tab)

Get Graph (right-click menu and toolbar on Current Run tab)

Import Informatica Sessions dialog box

Server Log

Email Configuration tab on Server Configuration dialog box

Email Recipients tab

Ability to edit the Priority field on the Task Definitions form

External Program, SQL File, and Stored Procedure execution types on Task Definitions form

New and delete buttons on Task Phases dialog box

Ability to edit the Priority field in the Task Phases dialog box

Multiple Informatica Server records and sessions

Index Override

NOTE: Siebel Data Warehouse Installation and Administration Guide, Version 7.7.1, Rev. C and higher versions document the features of the full DAC version and not the DAC Lite version. The installation instructions in this guide for Windows apply to both the DAC and DAC Lite versions. For installation instructions on UNIX, see the latest revision of Siebel Analytics Platform Installation and Configuration Guide.