Siebel SCA

Siebel Customer World had the announcement on SCA(Siebel Component assembly).. a supposedly SOA platform where the whole Siebel business object layer is accessable via Web Services -- in J2EE and .NET and may be unlimited development platforms/languages..

Kind of cool from what it sounds.. Wait and See...

Siebel Monitoring tools

The following site has a bunch of reviews on Siebel Monitoring tools..

I have seen Foglight in action in a very large Siebel Deployment. While I like foglight , there is this unreliability which it has -- and that bothers me..
But it is better than BMC Patrol which also is very complex to setup...


http://www.recursivetechnology.com/siebel_monitoring_software.php

BPEL and Siebel Workflow

BPEL(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPEL)  is an emerging technology to orchestrate web services. The technology seems to have the power to dominate the "Programming in Big" space in next few years.

 

BPEL seems to be closely related to how Siebel Workflow can be used to orchestrate Siebel business Services. This is more interesting now that we can publish any business service or workflow as a web service...):

 

 

ICAN from See Beyond, BizTalk from Microsoft , BPEL Ehngine from Oracle are some of the implementations of BPEL.