Guys this is my first case study, so please correct me If I am wrong some where. I tried my best to be diplomatic, please have your suggestions/views below in comments..
What is Siebel Open UI ?
Siebel Open UI is nothing but another upgrade of Siebel. It comes in Siebel 8.1.1.10 upgrade and currently Siebel 8.1.1.11.x version have been released by Oracle. Siebel 8.1.1.11 also named as Siebel Innovation Pack 2013.
As the name suggest, this upgrade specially dedicated to UI changes and hell of flexibility to Siebel.
How this Upgrade becomes so special ?
You can imagine its speciality..Oracle stop working on their CRM-Fusion and have a full focus on Open UI release to make it more stable which is not default nature of Oracle.
Well its like heart transplant for Siebel
How it helps Siebel itself ?
Because of its credibitlity, data handling power, data security and billion dollor running projects, Siebel never gonna vanished from market…
but slowly people are using it as backend tools and of course because of its dead ui…its fair
Now with Open UI, its UI got enhanced and got hundreds of features for free. Its like dedicating 10 more years to Siebel dynasty.
Is it really a boon for Siebel ??
Even Oracle wouldn’t have answer for this…but now all huge clients need not to blindly move to other technology like Salesforce, common it deserves one more chance dear !!
This is what all service based companies asked their clients to this upgrade.. 🙂
Is this enough to get fight back in market ?
Only future can answer this !!
But it demands hell lot of efforts from tiered Siebel Developers and opens window for UI developers to get hands dirty.
What Senior Siebel Developer says about it ?
Well they see future of Siebel in it but to work on this ….
Nooo, they thought it involves Web development which is not up their mark or not same as their actual Siebel logics & complexities.
Personally, I feel its not easier for them to get out of their comfort zone and adopt it. While actual Siebel work never gonna vanished, so no worries.
What UI Developer says about it ?
Well Oracle is really happy with this release and having a lot expectations….and they should have
But trust me UI developers got fed up with Siebel html designs. As it generates everything inside tables and td-tr…
while it comes as last option for them, as per them it is the only reason for Siebel slow applications (apart from big DB nd all).
They have a real struggle to get their things done because of Siebel auto generated html files.
As a solution, they prefer to edit Web template layouts.
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Disclaimer: Please don’t get personal if you find anything not good. All above points are my personal views only.