Differences Between Siebel PRM and Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing

This section summarizes the most important differences between Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing documentation and Siebel Partner Relationship Management (PRM), for both the employee application and the Partner Portal.

This section is meant to be used as a supplement to the documentation for Siebel PRM, which is in Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide.

The key differences are:

• Cross-references. Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide often refers the reader to Siebel Applications Administration Guide for more information. For Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing, in addition to that book, the reader should see the other chapters in this book.

• The Partner Manager. Instead of using the partner manager to work with partners, you use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing. This product has the partner-specific functionality of Siebel Partner Manager plus this added functionality:

  • Support for complex opportunities, with the design program as the parent opportunity and the design opportunity as the child opportunity.

  • Support for design registration and win.

• Partner Portal. In addition the standard Partner Portal screens, the Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing Partner Portal includes the following functionality:

  • Support for complex opportunities, with the design program as the parent opportunity and the design registration as the child opportunity.

  • Support for design registration and win.

• Adding New Partners. The process of adding new partners is slightly different in Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing than in Siebel PRM, because you must specify a partner manager for the partner company. For more information, see "About Setting Up Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing".

• Sharing Data with Partners. For information about sharing design programs and design registrations, see Chapter 4, "Design Registration, Opportunity Management, and Design Win."

• Scenarios. In addition to the scenarios described for Siebel PRM, Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing can be used for the scenarios described in Chapter 4, "Design Registration, Opportunity Management, and Design Win."