Consider the priorities of functionalities that you want to implement in your Siebel application. Siebel comprise many areas of functionality, even if you bought licenses for a limited range of functionality you may well have access to a lot of useful standard functionality. But how and where do you start? There are many best practices that you may well glean valuable information from, best practices established both by Siebel and by the implementators you work with. Boiling them down into useable statements, may help you tremendously in getting your Siebel project from start to finish in the best way possible. You may beg to differ on these best practices and opinions, and you are welcome to do so – they are intended to provoke thought, and careful consideration, which should help you realize your company’s goals with a Siebel implementation without any grief.
- Use the Vanilla Functionality first – then decide how and if you need to change areas of the application to better suit your needs. There are two options here;
- Change Siebel
- Change how you do your business
Both options have merit, sometimes you cannot change Siebel to do what you want without breaking the application in places, or making it difficult to upgrade at a later stage. Sometimes you cannot change how your company does things.
- Limit the amount of functionality that you expose to your users from the beginning. But make sure that super users have access to functionality areas not yet used in production – for safety – just do it in your UAT. Doing this should help ensure that your users do not loose sight of new functionality that can be added to the application.
- Get your users on board. There is no excuse on this, you need to educate you users, you need to nurse them, and you need to let them have time to develop an understanding for the application, this way your investment in software and configuration is not lost. If you do not get your users to embrace the application – just forget it then.
- Listen to the users, it goes almost without saying – if you get them onboard, they see improvements to the application and you dismiss all of them, then you’re going to loose the support of the users. Always balance the development to make sure that you provide functionality required by management and by users. Remember there may be differences in what management and end-users want the application to do.
In Manzana we live on our customers’ success, and our ability to scope, develop, implement and rollout solutions that cover the above points and more. And the results speak for themselves. Our customers are satisfied, their employees are satisfied, and resources have been freed for more important tasks. Look at the Customer Success to see some quotes from customer installations that Manzana have built.
Further we pride ourselves in not just being an implementator of Siebel, we also use Siebel actively in Manzana. So our experience also comes from our own daily use of Siebel.
Look for the Download Section, there’s a small free utility that will test your Siebel COM objects.
Thanks for your time!
Henrik Ohm Eriksen, CEO
Manzana
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