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Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL), a leading provider
of customer-facing solutions, has been recognized as a leader in
midmarket sales force automation (SFA) applications, according to a
November 2005 Forrester Wave report.(1) The report notes that Siebel
CRM Professional Edition, the company's on premise CRM offering for
small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), "offers best-of-breed CRM to
the midmarket with a focus on verticals." It goes on to state that
"Siebel leads the market in vertical specialization, with deep
industry-specific functionality incorporated into editions for
financial services; insurance; health care; life sciences;
communications, media and energy; and consumer goods."
Forrester evaluated the top midmarket on premise SFA vendors
across approximately 151 criteria. Siebel Systems received the highest
overall vendor score as well as the highest scores in the
Verticalization, Sales Management, Sales Analysis, Integration, and
Product Strategy and Vision criteria. According to the report, Siebel
CRM Professional Edition's strengths include deep industry-specific
functionality and its simple migration path to Siebel's enterprise on
premise solution.
"It's an honor to be recognized by Forrester as a leading provider
of midmarket CRM applications," said Robert Reid, Group Vice
President, SMB, Siebel Systems. "We are dedicated to helping companies
of all sizes maximize our world-class CRM functionality, allowing them
to increase their business results. Siebel CRM Professional Edition
delivers powerful CRM functionality in easy-to-deploy modules that
allow midmarket organizations to choose the specific CRM capabilities
they need to run their businesses better and be more competitive."
Siebel's latest version, Siebel CRM Professional Edition 7.8,
improves end user adoption through seamless integration with familiar
desktop and Web applications and delivers built-in best practices to
increase sales, marketing, and service effectiveness. Siebel CRM
Professional Edition 7.8 also provides enhanced call center
functionality through integration with Siebel's hosted contact center
solution, Siebel Contact OnDemand.
About Siebel CRM Solutions for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Siebel Systems offers world-class solutions for small and
medium-sized organizations, including both hosted and on premise
offerings that embed best practices garnered from Siebel's experience
working with the world's leading companies. For growing organizations
seeking a complete, fast-to-deploy CRM offering, Siebel CRM OnDemand
provides a hosted solution that requires no up-front investments in
hardware or software and no additional maintenance, upgrade, or
support costs. Siebel CRM OnDemand delivers unique capabilities such
as powerful real-time and historical analytics, prebuilt contact
center capabilities, and prebuilt industry-specific solutions. For
midsized organizations that prefer to maintain control of their
hardware and applications on-site, Siebel CRM Professional Edition
delivers a leading software solution that provides extended CRM
functionality with powerful customization and integration tools. To
learn more about Siebel solutions for SMBs please visit
www.siebel.com/smb.
About Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems is a leading 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. For more information, visit
www.siebel.com.
(1) "The Forrester Wave(TM): Midmarket Sales Force Automation, Q4
2005" and "Midmarket Sales Force Automation Scorecard Summary:
Siebel," by Liz Herbert (with John Ragsdale and Jessica Harrington),
November 22, 2005.
For more information on Siebel Systems solutions and services,
please visit our Web site: CRM -- http://www.siebel.com/crm; OnDemand
Solutions -- http://www.crmondemand.com; Industry CRM --
http://www.siebel.com/industry-crm; Call Center and Service --
http://www.siebel.com/call-center; Sales Force Automation --
http://www.siebel.com/sales-force-automation; Marketing Automation --
http://www.siebel.com/marketing-automation; Business Intelligence --
http://www.siebel.com/business-intelligence; Integration Solutions --
http://www.siebel.com/integration-solutions; CRM Services --
http://www.siebel.com/crm-services.
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uncertainties. Future operating results of Siebel Systems may differ
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statements due to factors that include, but are not limited to, risks
associated with our pending merger with Oracle Corporation, customer
relations, such as the availability of Siebel Systems' products and
services, customer implementation of products and services,
relationships with customers, third-party vendors and systems
integrators, concentration of revenues in a relatively small number of
customers, existence of errors or defects in products, ability to
successfully manage growth, significant current and expected
additional competition and the need to continue to expand product
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