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About the Siebel ADM Source and Target Environments

This topic is part of About Migrating Customizations Using Siebel ADM.

The Siebel Application Deployment Manager (ADM) source environment refers to the Siebel Business Applications environment where the application customizations originate. This environment can be, for example, a development or test environment. You use Siebel ADM to package application customizations in the source environment and to migrate them to the target environment. For example, you can use one source environment to create an ADM package that you want to migrate into multiple target environments.

ADM data types represent the different customizable entities in the source environment. For more information on ADM data types, see About Siebel ADM Data Types.

You begin the ADM deployment process by packaging ADM data types in the source environment. For information on this process, see Process of Creating a Siebel ADM Package.

The ADM target environment refers to the Siebel Business Applications environment to which the application customizations, previously created, are migrated from the source environment. This environment can be, for example, a test or production environment.