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About Audit Trail

Audit Trail creates a history of the changes that have been made to data in Siebel applications. An audit trail is a record showing who has accessed an item, which operation was performed, when it was performed, and how the value was changed. Therefore, it is useful for maintaining security, examining the history of a particular record, documenting modifications for future analysis, and record keeping. Audit Trail logs information without requiring any interaction with, or input from, your users.

Audit Trail can be used for a variety of purposes. In a simple example, a call center uses an audit trail to track the status change of a service request, who changed it and when. Audit trail capabilities can also be used to track the time needed to change the state of an item, such as a service request from open to closed. A calculation of the time difference can help the call center manager measure and improve service quality. Audit trail can also be used to reproduce a record at a given point in time to maintain regulatory compliance. To do this, look at the audit trail for the record and compare the audit trail details with the current state of the record.

Audit Trail can also be used to track the viewing and export of data. For example, financial services organizations can use Audit Trail to monitor who has read or exported an account holder's information. Audit trail can be implemented for the Audit Trail functionality itself. This helps you track any changes made to the Audit Trail settings.

NOTE:  For any audit trail deployment, the combination of the number of fields audited and the number of audit records created by a given business process has performance implications. If you audit a large number of fields on a business component, or audit fields in a large number of business components, there might be an unacceptable performance impact.

Audit Trail Features

More Audit Trail features are described in the following topics:

• Audit Scope
• Audit Trail Content
• Audit Trail Constraints
• Audit Trail for Siebel Remote and Siebel Replication Users