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Siebel CRM CAB @ Oracle Open World 2018 It's that time of the year when San Francisco is abuzz with Oracle Open World in full swing. As in the past several years, Oracle (Siebel) hosted its annual CRM Customer Advisory Board all day meeting on Sunday at Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. This year was special as the year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Siebel Systems. So the occasion made the CAB event a momentous and a special one. Siebel CRM Strategy Update Siebel CAB event started off with the customary strategy and roadmap update from George Jacob (GM and GVP of Siebel CRM). Some of the key updates from the strategy include: Lifetime Support of Oracle Siebel Oracle's reinforcement of commitment to support existing Oracle applications including Siebel. No plans to end support with premier support "through at least" 2030 Rolling 10 years of premier support Move from Centralized Mobile-Cloud to Distributed Edge-Intelligence 2000-20

Achieve Extreme Agility with upgrades to Siebel 17.x/18.x Siebel CRM has been releasing innovation on a yearly basis since 2012 and with every new innovation pack, new features have been released that have greatly benefited the plethora of customers that use Siebel to solve their business needs. In the long history of Siebel, release of Open UI back in IP2013 was considered a transformational release of sorts as it changed Siebel in way that allowed it to be used like a true modern web standards based CRM application. In keeping up with the trend of releasing transformational features, Siebel IP2017 came along that was focused on achieving business agility for customers. It is probably the biggest and by far the boldest Siebel release since 2013. Siebel 17.x/18.x has been packed with a number of features targeted at positively impacting Business Agility.  It endeavors to provide customers with the tools to operate Siebel at a lower cost than ever before, and challenge cus

Parallel Development using Workspaces

Over the last several years most organizations have relied on Virtual Machines for running software applications to reduce cost and lower cost of ownership. While VMs can help get the most out of available hardware and software resources, there is a new kid on the block called containers that is providing a significant challenge to VM as a lower cost alternative.  As an organization looking for the best solution to running your own services in the cloud or in your data center, its important to understand these varying technologies, pros and cons and how they compare with each other. At Dymensions, we are committed to providing lower cost, reliable solutions for automating development operations. Our analysis of the two options for Siebel Deployment automation may help you evaluate and make a decision for your organization. Let's start with a quick introduction of both these technologies. Virtual Machines and Containers What are VMs ? A Virtual Machine (VM) is an e

Live Webinar Invitation Continuous Integration, Deployment & DevOps for Siebel CRM Register Now Date and Time Tuesday, July 10th, 2018 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CEST By combining the agility features in Siebel IP2017/Siebel 18 and industry leading DevOps tools,  Dymensions  has created an end-to-end solution that delivers complete automation of developer to test to perf to production pipeline for Siebel CRM. This webinar is being hosted in collaboration with ec4u . During this webinar, you will be treated to: An overview of the key agility features of Siebel IP2017/Siebel 18 Summary of the DevOps solution built by Dymensions for Siebel CRM A demo of the solution using the latest Siebel 18, update 6 Regards, Dymensions team Dymensions, Inc +1.925.302.9610 https://www.dymensions.io info@dymensions.io

The most successful organizations are those that can outperform their competition in metrics of agility, risk and efficiency. The journey of achieving efficiency in deployment via automation is a continuous one. Chef is a powerful automation software tool that allows you to define your infrastructure as code to ensure that configurations are applied consistently in every environment, at any scale. It is a leader in continuous automation software and one of the pioneers in development operations. Whether you’re operating in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment, Chef automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across your network, no matter its size.  Siebel software deployment requires significant OS level prerequisites to be met prior to installation. This makes using a Virtual Machine as-is for Siebel deployment complex. Chef is a versatile devops tool that can seamlessly take care of all what you need to have a healthy and reliable environment