Siebel Technology

Siebel version 8.1.1.11 is here and brings a few important things back to Siebel in the form of Open UI enhancements. Among them: Siebel Open UI receives some needed fixes and enhancements Dispatch board should work (or not, see below) Siebel Search (Siebel Find represented by Binocular button before) works Siebel Loyalty gets a few enhancements Read Open UI enhancements at http://docs.

If you are really interested in object tagging or other such new features from 8.1.1.10 or any other features from version 8.1.1.9, you will see some strange behaviour. We saw something similar when trying to enable ‘object tagging’ in Siebel 8.

Siebel 8.1.1.10 brought with it what is called “Incremental Repository Merge” known simply as Siebel IRM. The objectives are novel: Move away from the optional ACRs to apply incremental changes for a point release (e.

Siebel has not been a big follower of market trends recently. But from time to time we see a new story that catches the imagination of Siebel developers, if none else.

Recently we were evaluating options to cater to Siebel infrastructure needs of a customer external to their data center, and the most obvious choice was Amazon Web Services. It is not only that AWS is big, and the best known player in the market, but also that it provides the most flexible, more powerful options for any company looking to move out of its own data center.

Performance in Siebel is often the cause of angst for IT architects, managers and developers (not necessarily in that order). Typically a Siebel performance issue in production goes through following steps:

A discerning reader might remember the trace on demand utility posted here last time. It was fairly simple vb script that gets the job done, and is adequate for a developer.

Adding complex, dynamic business rules in Siebel has never been an easy task (well, for all verticals anyway). Architects and designers have learnt to play around with Siebel SmartScripts, tools/client-side scripts in combination with Siebel Workflows and other business layer validations to achieve the required flexibility and maintainability, but not compromising on performance.

Siebel OpenUI has taken the Siebel world by storm. Arguably the single biggest announcement since Siebel 8.0 in Y2007 in this part of the world, the technology looks exciting and is a big boost to extend the aging product.

Often Siebel integration developers, Siebel developers themselves and other people who tend to show an interest in Siebel development from time to time, would want to know the source of all mysteries or rather, the source of a control displayed on the UI.