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Terms Used in This Guide

This guide uses the following terms:

Database Upgrade. A set of standard procedures to migrate your custom repository and data schema from one release of Siebel CRM to a higher release level (that is, to a later release).

Siebel Innovation Pack and Siebel Patchset releases. Siebel Innovation Pack releases are installed either as new installations or as migrations from earlier releases of Siebel CRM version 8.1.1 or 8.1.1.x or version 8.2.2 or 8.2.2.x. Siebel Patchset releases are installed as patch installations into your Siebel Innovation Pack installation. In some cases, a Siebel Patchset release might add new feature content, as with Siebel Patchset 5 for Siebel Innovation Pack 2015. This guide is for upgrading to Siebel Innovation Pack 2015, Patchset 5 or later (version 15.5 or later).

For more information about installing the current Siebel Innovation Pack release and about Siebel release types, see the Siebel Installation Guide for the operating system you are using. For more information about installing Patchset 5 or later and about new features in this release, see Siebel Patchset Installation Guide for Siebel CRM, 1614310.1 (Article ID) on My Oracle Support.

SEA and SIA. The Siebel Industry Applications (SIA) data model is physically a superset of the Siebel Enterprise Application (SEA) data model. The SIA data model has more tables, more columns in the same tables, and more indexes than the SEA data model, but it does not exclude any tables, columns or indexes from the SEA version. Current versions of Siebel CRM now support only the SIA data model. Some upgrade paths might involve upgrading from an SEA data model to the SIA data model; additional steps apply.

Incremental Repository Merge. A mechanism which allows you to incrementally upgrade your custom repository data (including schema and seed data) from Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.x (SIA only), Siebel CRM version 8.2.2.x, or Siebel CRM version 15.0 to Siebel CRM version 15.5 or later. For more information about the incremental repository merge process, see Performing the Siebel Incremental Repository Merge.

NOTE:  The Siebel CRM version 15.5 repository contains the cumulative repository, schema, and seed data for all new content (such as Release Features) developed up to Siebel CRM version 15.5.