Siebel Systems and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance

October 4, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Today at Siebel Business Intelligence Summit, as part of an expanded strategic alliance focused on business intelligence, Siebel Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced optimization of Siebel Business Analytics for a variety of Microsoft® products and technologies. Siebel's new enterprise analytics applications, also announced today, are immediately available optimized for Microsoft SQL Server (TM) .

"We look forward to our continued work with Siebel to deliver further integration of Siebel Business Analytics with key SQL Server 2005 capabilities, including Reporting Services. This is additional evidence of significant customer adoption of Reporting Services, with more than 100,000 downloads in the first eight months since launching in January," said Mike Tuchen, general manager of SQL Server Marketing at Microsoft.

The two companies have been working to enable joint customers to realize greater performance through tight integration of Microsoft platform and Siebel's analytic solutions. As a result Microsoft SQL Server has become the fastest-growing database for use with Siebel Business Analytics, and Microsoft Windows Server (TM) has become the leading platform for Siebel Business Analytics deployments, enabling more customers to realize the TCO benefits of the Microsoft platform.

Siebel Business Analytics solutions are designed to increase revenues, lower costs, speed time to value and gain competitive advantage by providing powerful insight into issues and opportunities that impact business performance.

In addition, Microsoft announced its selection of Siebel analytic applications and has plans to make it available to 10,000 employees to increase sales and marketing effectiveness.

Siebel Business Analytics platform and applications have been highly tuned and optimized to exploit the unique performance and scalability characteristics of the Microsoft platform. The companies have collaborated to ensure deeper integration of Siebel Business Analytics and Microsoft applications, technologies and services.

"We are pleased to announce our expanded relationship with Microsoft in the area of BI and analytics," said Larry Barbetta, group vice president and general manager of Business Analytics at Siebel Systems. "Siebel Systems and Microsoft are both committed to leveraging technology to enable the rapid deployment of powerful analytic solutions that deliver demonstrable business results and are cost effective."

Siebel Business Analytics offers a range of complete enterprise and customer analytic solutions, Siebel Business Analytics Applications, that are prebuilt to include data integration, enterprise data warehouse models, and a wide range of enterprise analytic capabilities.

Siebel Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL) is a leading provider of business applications software, enabling corporations to sell to, market to, and serve customers across multiple channels and lines of business.