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Features and Benefits of Siebel Anywhere

Siebel Anywhere allows the Siebel administrator to distribute software upgrades (in the form of Siebel Anywhere upgrade kits) to Siebel Mobile Web Clients, Siebel Developer Web Clients, and Siebel Servers. Upgrades can include custom configurations (updated CFG or SRF files), certain types of Siebel Business Applications releases, custom extensions to the Siebel database schema, custom files, or third-party files or applications.

Siebel Anywhere provides the following mechanisms:

• Configuration control to make sure users are connecting to a system with the appropriate software components.
• Creation and packaging of supported types of upgrade components for distribution to clients or servers.
• Distribution to provide users with acceptable version levels of the upgrade components.

NOTE:  Siebel Anywhere is not designed to deliver base software installations (such as Siebel CRM version 8.1.1 or version 8.2.2) for Siebel clients, deliver upgrade kits to Siebel Tools, or support database upgrades of the type described in Siebel Database Upgrade Guide. In general, the term upgrade as used in this guide has a specific, narrow meaning relating to distributing software updates through Siebel Anywhere.

For more information about how Siebel administrators and other users work with Siebel Anywhere, see Roadmap for Using Siebel Anywhere and other topics in this chapter. For more information about how Siebel Anywhere performs its functions, see About Siebel Anywhere Version Settings.

NOTE:  Some of the references in this guide to Siebel Fix Pack version numbers are for example or illustrative purposes. You must verify the availability, characteristics, and requirements of any future releases, including any version 8.1.1.x or version 8.2.2.x Siebel Fix Pack releases, that might be mentioned in this guide (or updated versions of it) or in other documentation. Tasks and requirements for all future releases are subject to change.