13:19:31 - 17 October 2005

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Today at Siebel CustomerWorld 2005, Microsoft Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc. announced availability of the Siebel Component Assembly for Microsoft® .NET. This offering enables customers to simplify and speed the development of custom CRM applications, enhance organizational decision-making and increase end-user productivity.

This product is one of several .NET Framework-based offerings that has resulted from a long-standing successful strategic global alliance between the two companies.

Siebel Component Assembly delivers the essential building blocks to help organizations build custom CRM applications more quickly, easily and efficiently. Major elements of this new product line shipping today include a metadata-driven, declarative development environment and a pre-built library of industry-leading customer relationship management (CRM) components that enable rapid application development for .NET.

The Siebel Component Assembly product offering is targeted for organizations that are experienced in building highly customized CRM applications. Customers using Siebel Component Assembly and .NET can now deliver CRM solutions that are cost-effective, agile and among the best in class, because Siebel Component Assembly is designed to take full advantage of a broad set of Microsoft technologies.

Siebel Component Assembly for .NET is based on the .NET Framework and features native integration with a broad range of Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Office 2003 editions, Office Outlook® 2003, SharePoint® Products and Technologies and Exchange.

“Siebel Component Assembly for .NET is an important milestone for the global alliance between our two companies,” said Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president of the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft.

“Siebel applications are designed to take advantage of the power of the platform,” said Skip Bacon, vice president of products at Siebel Systems. “With Siebel Component Assembly for Microsoft .NET, we are offering our customers the unique ability to rapidly address new market opportunities and build robust solutions that offer greater flexibility and cost savings.”

Microsoft and Siebel Systems have a long history of working together to bring enterprise-class solutions to market for thousands of customers worldwide. Since 2002, when their global alliance was announced, the two companies have delivered a number of products aimed at improving the productivity and flexibility of enterprise-class solutions for their joint customers. Today, the majority of Siebel’s enterprise customers run their solutions on the Microsoft platform.

Siebel Systems (www.siebel.com) is a provider of software solutions and services that drive value and loyalty in client-customer relationships, providing best-in-class capabilities in on-premise and hosted customer relationship management (CRM), business analytics, and customer data integration. Siebel’s new Customer Adaptive Solutions enable organizations to model their customer-centric business processes in order to drive the most effective customer interactions, gain increased insight over time, and continually realign those processes for systemic and consistent improvement. With more than $2 billion in R&D investments, 11-plus years of customer software experience, an extensive global ecosystem of alliance partners, and more than 4,000 customers and 3.7 million live users, Siebel is the proven choice in helping organizations of all types and sizes achieve customer-driven business results.

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