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