How to configure actuate with siebel

      If you want it to work the same as it works in Siebel you need to have a single sign-on Actuate server (capture Siebel username and password and pass to Actuate). This is probably the longest job and also has security implications about passing username and passwords over http(s) connections so you may want to use encryption as well. Getting hold of the Siebel password is not a trivial job.


     You then need to recreate Siebel position based visibility for all you reports so that each user gets only the right data. A report-by-report task but something you need to consider. Add on to that the need to recreate query by examples in all your reports. This can also cause problems because large queries would reach the http character length limit and then your report wouldn't actually truly reflect your Siebel query. There are ways around this, but of course they just take longer to implement.

    Then you need to decide how you want to display your reports within Siebel (menu bar, view, screen, browser plugin) and modify Actuate so that it displays the reports in an acceptable fashion to you.

Work effort:

 To do the whole lot, test and deploy, you've got about 4 weeks of work.

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