Analytics: Application Developer (Siebel 7.

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Module Objectives

 After completing this module you will be able to:

 Recall major areas covered in the course
 Identify available resources

 Why you need to know

 Helps you to remember key topics and provides future
direction

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Course Overview
 Major areas covered:
 Foundations
 Configuration
 Administration
 Deployment

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Foundations
 Business Analytics (or Business Intelligence)
 Provides users the data and tools to answer questions that are
important to running the business
 Dimensional modeling
 Is a technique for logically organizing business data in a way that
helps end users understand it
 Siebel Analytics
 Provides a simple-to-use, highly-interactive analysis tool and the
ability to pre-construct dynamic requests and alerts

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Foundations Continued
 Intelligence Dashboards
 Provides a way to organize related information to easily access
and use structured and unstructured information
 Siebel Answers
 Provides a self-service analytics platform for reporting needs and
more

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Foundations Continued
 Siebel Analytics architecture components:
 Clients
 Provide access to analytics information for analysis by users
 Siebel Analytics Web Server
 Provides the processing to visualize the information for client
consumption
 Siebel Analytics Server
 Provides efficient processing to intelligently access the physical data
sources and structures the information
 Siebel Analytics Scheduler
 Manages and executes jobs requesting data analytics
 Data Sources
 Contain the business data users want to analyze and are accessed by
the Siebel Analytics Server

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Foundations Continued
 Siebel Analytics Repository is made up of three layers:
 Physical layer
 Is the metadata that describes the source of the analytical data
 Is used by the Siebel Analytics Server to generate SQL to access the
business data to provide answers to business questions
 Business Model and Mapping layer
 Is the metadata that organizes physical sources into a dimensional
business model
 Presentation layer
 Is the metadata that describes the users’ view of the business model

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Configuration
 Construct Analytics Requests
 Explain and apply filtering to Analytics requests
 Identify the various types of views and how to use them in an
Analytics Request
 Customize Siebel Analytics Dashboards
 Embedded objects
 Included objects
 Integrate Siebel Analytics content with Siebel and non-Siebel
environments
 Inline
 iFrame
 Build Guided Navigation
 Static
 Dynamic

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Administration
 Administering the Siebel Analytics Web Catalog
 Automatic Backup Configuration
 Create a new Web Catalog
 Recover from a failure to load the Web Catalog
 Moving & migrating the Web Catalog
 Using the Web Catalog Manager
 Security
 Groups (Web Groups)
 Users
 Integrate Web Security with Analytics Server Security
 Permissions
 Privileges

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Deployment
 Identify the components of Disconnected Analytics applications
 Navigate the Disconnected Analytics Application Manager user
interface
 Use Disconnected Analytics applications to view, create, modify,
and save Intelligence Dashboards in offline mode
 Synchronize Disconnected Analytics applications
 Explore features and functions of Siebel Delivers user interface
 Create an iBot
 Deliver an iBot to an Intelligence Dashboard
 Design Principles and Best Practices
 Performance
 Design

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Future Resources
 Refer to the following for assistance:
 Bookshelf documentation
 Siebel Support and Training (www.siebel.com)
 Siebel Expert Services
 Course materials
 Fellow students

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Thank You
 Thank you for attending
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