Installing Oracle BI Applications (Siebel Analytics)

We’ve seen Siebel Analytics in use at a number of client sites, but I’ve rarely had an opportunity to get to grips with it. I performed some base installations a long while back, from a set of instructions, but that’s pretty much it. I’ve recently had a lot of interest in what’s happing in this [...]

Siebel 8.1 on Windows 7

I’ve noticed a lot of interest around using Siebel Tools and the Siebel Web Client with Windows 7: Having been a Windows 7 user since the early betas, I have to say it’s the best Windows operating system yet. Where Vista piled in with clunky processes, UAC, compatibility problems and a host of other issues, [...]

Siebel 8 Case Insensitivity

Siebel 8 does away with the concept of turning query case sensitivity on and off with a simple switch. In order to allow for fine tuning and improved performance, case sensitivity is implied unless explicitly configured on a per Column object basis: If you have case insensitive searching currently, you can configure this in Siebel 8 [...]

Build your own Siebel

I like to keep up to date on Siebel and other technology. To help me keep my skills in check, I have a full Siebel installation running on virtual machines on my home desktop: I found this to be a very useful mini project that has taught me a lot about installation and configuration of [...]

Siebel Reporting – Part 3 – Actuate to BIP Report Migration

With a running BIP Publisher server and tested integration, we can start looking at migrating Actuate reports to the BIP Publisher format. Some key facts to recall from previous posts: Actuate uses COM to talk to Siebel. This means Report objects in Tools, .ROL files and ssiebel.bas BIP uses Web Services. This mean Integration Objects, [...]