Archive for August, 2009
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30
Aug
2009
Oracle divorcing Prometric
Whomsoever of us has been through the official Oracle Traning through the coveted Oracle University knows about Prometric. Prometric has long been the official training partner with Oracle for all of the Oracle courses offered through OU. But, this seems to be changing as Oracle sees its partnership with Prometric souring out.
27
Aug
2009
What is Google?
Hi all, it’s such a nice feeling to be back.
All of us must have observed the Advanced Query feature recently enabled on the Google Search Engine. Whenever you start typing in a query, Google automatically shows the top queries related to your search. There is an option to enable/disable this feature though, in the Google Preferences in case you don’t like it.
19
Aug
2009
Siebel – Case Insensitivity (CIAI) Wizard
CIAI stands for Case Insensitive and Accent Insensitive in Siebel. This can be called the first post on GeeksBlogging@dotCOM on Siebel 8 New Features.
I had discussed about some traditional methods of controlling Case Sensitivity in Siebel queries. However, in version 8.0, Siebel has introduced a new feature of the CIAI Wizard which goes a step further in controlling this functionality. This has been carried forward in Siebel 8.1 albeit with some minor modifications.
18
Aug
2009
Oracle VM Templates for Siebel CRM
In a normal case, to set up a Siebel CRM solution on a server, we would first need to separately set up the Server Operating System, Database Server and Siebel CRM. This could be quite a task and could take substantial time and resources. Why not follow the easy way out?
17
Aug
2009
Siebel – Run Case Insensitive queries
This is a nice tip I ran across. All the Siebel Developers use Siebel Tools and Siebel Web Client extensively. And, each one of us run over a hundred queries daily. However, when querying for some data, for eg. a Business Service Name in Tools, Siebel generally demands we enter the correct case. To streamline the process and improve productivity, I continuously keep making minor modifications in my environment settings.
17
Aug
2009
16
Aug
2009
On2 Technologies sued by Shareholders
We had reported a couple of weeks ago about Google’s acquisition of On2 Technologies. On2 had been patronizing Video Compression Technologies for use over the internet for quite some time. Well, here’s a twist to the case.
15
Aug
2009
14
Aug
2009
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Change default ‘X_’
This is a smaill tip I was working on, which got me interested in Symbolic Strings all of a sudden. We have already discussed previously about the Symbolic Strings
Siebel – Symbolic Strings
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Usage
13
Aug
2009
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Usage
Symbolic Strings appear directly in Siebel Tools’ Object Explorer, an independent object. It has a child object of Symbolic String Locale, where you may define the individual translations for all the different languages in use in your project.
In case it is not visible directly, navigate to View -> Options -> Object Explorer tab, and enable the Symbolic Strings object if not already visible.
12
Aug
2009
Siebel – Left, Right and from the Middle
Extracting a sub string from a lengthy string in Siebel. What is the best solution you can think up for this typical problem? I know, I know, you and you colleagues have done this thousands of times before. But, have you ever successfully done it without using a single line of scripting?!!
Now, it becomes interesting! 
12
Aug
2009
Siebel – Symbolic Strings
Consider this a brief introductory tutorial on Symbolic Strings in Siebel. Symbolic Strings are from amongst the most commonly used entities in Siebel, especially in Siebel Multi lingual deployments.
They can greatly reduce the job of initializing, deploying, tracking, modifying all the plethora of error/warning messages that you may generally come across in a typical Siebel CRM application.
11
Aug
2009
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