Siebel is an application for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) available in the following configurations
On Premise
On Demand (hosted)
Hosted On Premise
Federated On Demand
Siebel is a 3-tier architecture consisting of the following components
Siebel Web Server Extensions
Siebel Application Server
Database Server
Siebel is available on different server operating systems
Windows
Oracle Unbreakable Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Sun Solaris
Suse Linux
Red Hat Linux
Siebel is database agnostic (you don't write SQL in a Siebel application) and supports the following database platforms only
Oracle
SQL Server
IBM DB2
Siebel supports different industry applications (Pharma, Finance, Communications, Consumer Goods, Public Sector, Insurance, Hospitality). Typical Siebel applications areas are call-center applications, sales & marketing, field service, campaign management, customer management).
Siebel includes a large number of functional modules
Workflow
Work assignment
Many forms of integration capability at the presentation, business logic and data layers of the application