Recommended Import Order

To correctly establish the relationships between dependent data elements, the data should be imported in the following recommended order. In general, reference data such as therapeutic classes, competitive metrics, and competitive issues should be imported first, followed by employee and product data (internal products, external products, and medical specialties), followed by contacts data. Syndicated data should be loaded last.

The following list shows the recommended import order for all data types specific to Siebel Life Sciences:

  1. Reference data (therapeutic classes, competitive metrics, and so on)

  2. Employees

  3. Notifications

  4. Products (both internal and external)

  5. Leads

  6. Medical specialties

  7. Insurance plans

  8. Accounts

  9. Opportunities

  10. Formularies

  11. Contacts

  12. Contact ratings and rankings

  13. Quotes

  14. Documents

  15. Proposal templates

  16. Forecasts

  17. Fulfillment data

  18. Call lists

  19. Objectives

  20. Marketing campaigns

  21. Product consumption

  22. Service requests

  23. Product defects

  24. Activities and appointments

  25. Notes

  26. File attachments

  27. Syndicated data