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It is no surprise that Digital service channels are being used a lot more than before the pandemic. Consumers have embraced self-service, chatbots and live chat more in recent years, raising the digital expectation bar. By providing a poor Chatbot experience to your customers, you run the risk of customer churn. Since the rise of ChatGPT, we recommend that organizations invest in the latest generation of chatbots (like Einstein Chatbot) and pay closer attention to chatbot experience design and shift from menu-based to NLP-based or hybrid bots.

Three months ago, Ideaport hosted a four-episode webinar series entitled "Three initiatives to transform your Siebel CRM in 2021." After the introductory overview webinar, we dived each initiative's details, covering such topics as Siebel Cloud Native Architecture, Siebel - Kafka integration and Siebel UX transformation using Ideaport tools and methods. Ready to access the recordings? They are right here. 

Now it's the time for another webinar series, "Hedging your Siebel career", with three episodes.

While working as Siebel Business Analysts, you have mastered a lot of skills. You are adept at talking to business subject experts and formulating functional requirements. You know end-to-end business processes in your company inside out. You learned to work with Siebel developers and write comprehensive user stories for them. Wonder where you can develop next? What about the Scrum Product Owner certification? Ah, you’ve already got it.

When I first heard of DX4C a year ago, I was dismayed: how come Oracle uses the best Siebel engineering team resources to develop some other product rather than building the stuff Siebel CRM customers require? 

After reading this article you will:

#1: have a better understanding of the Streaming approach that can be used to integrate with Salesforce;
#2: see the pros and cons of this approach;

#3: know a little more about Apache Kafka;

#4: see how you can maintain your integration;

#5: see how streaming works in practice;

#6: have more food for thought ;)

Shall we begin?

On June 2, we hosted the first public Nexus Face webinar, with 65 people attending. 

While discussing why Siebel application is often lagging behind its competitors in usability, we came up with three points:

• Missing user-centricity in design
• Limited amount of UI Components
• Lack of UI Design Patterns for complex user-flows

In this article, I would like to familiarize Siebel experts with the main terms, tools, and methods used in the User Experience (UX) domain. To make concepts more tangible, I will explain what UX tools we at Idea Port Riga use during the two-week-long mini-project as we discover Siebel UX improvement opportunities.

We are back with the second article on Siebel Open UI usability improvements. In the first article, we set the stage and drafted your first steps in the Siebel UX transformation journey (e.g. making friends with the "digital" team at your company). Now we will continue by sharing different kinds of topics regarding the Nexus Bridge.

For the second year in a row I am leaving San Francisco and Oracle OpenWorld very excited. Last year Oleg and I started to work on the idea, which eventually became the Nexus Bridge for Siebel Open UI. This year I have presented the process for running Siebel UX improvements projects at the Siebel Customers Advisory Board meeting in San Francisco. Nexus Bridge is a crucial technical enabler in Siebel UX projects run by both by Idea Port Riga and several other customers.