Business Objects Supports Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3; New Release of Siebel eBusiness Applications Offers Powerful eBusiness Intelligence Solutions.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions today announced its support for Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3, an expanded suite of analytics applications now offered with industry-leading Siebel eBusiness Applications.

Siebel eBusiness Analytics provides executives and managers with powerful insight into their customer base and multichannel eBusiness operations, including sales, marketing, and service activities.

Users of Siebel eBusiness Analytics can leverage this business insight to refine business strategies, operational execution, and to improve customer acquisition, retention, satisfaction, and profitability. Business Objects e-BI technology is seamlessly integrated with Siebel eBusiness Analytics and further enhances the query, reporting, and analysis functionality available in Siebel eBusiness Applications.

Siebel eBusiness Analytics offers the industry's first prebuilt, scalable, and open eBusiness data warehouse with comprehensive, out-of-the-box analyses to dramatically reduce the cost and time to deliver robust enterprise-class online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities. By combining front office, back office, and external data into a single eBusiness data warehouse, Siebel eBusiness Analytics provides companies with a 360-degree, customer-focused view of their eBusiness operations.

Siebel Systems incorporated Business Objects e-BI technology with the Siebel eIntelligence component of the Siebel eBusiness Analytics suite to provide its users with powerful and easy-to-use query, reporting, and analysis (OLAP) functionality. Siebel eIntelligence provides both prebuilt and flexible ad hoc analysis for insight into customers' preferences, interaction patterns, and behavior. Siebel eIntelligence features an extensive library of charts and graphs including analyses on customers, sales, service, products, and channels. Siebel eIntelligence users can easily customize the out-of-the-box views or create their own analyses through a graphical drag-and-drop interface.

"Siebel Systems is the clear industry leader in eBusiness applications and is paving the way for better customer-focused business practices through its compelling eBusiness solutions," said Mark Tice, group vice president of global alliances at Business Objects. "Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3, coupled with Business Objects technology, provides reporting and analysis to empower sales, marketing, and service users with the information they need to make informed and timely customer-driven decisions."

"By incorporating Business Objects products with Siebel eIntelligence, we are able to offer our customers web access for ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis that will dramatically improve the effectiveness of their eBusiness," said Dan Lackner, vice president and general manager of Marketing and eBusiness Analytics products at Siebel Systems. "Siebel Systems and Business Objects share a commitment to 100 percent customer satisfaction and together, we provide our customers with the eBusiness information they need, when they need it."

About Siebel Systems

Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL) is the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications software. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness applications software enabling multichannel sales, marketing, and customer service systems to be deployed over the Web, call centers, field, reseller channels, retail, and dealer networks. Siebel Systems' sales and service facilities are located in more than 28 countries. For more information, please visit Siebel Systems' Web site at www.Siebel.com.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions. The company coined the term e-business intelligence in 1998 to describe the intersection of business intelligence and the internet. Using e-business intelligence, organizations can access, analyze, and share information in intranet, extranet, and e-business environments. In intranets, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions, and are used in environments ranging from workgroups of 20 users to enterprise deployments exceeding 20,000. In the extranet environment, the company is pioneering the use of e-BI in applications that allow organizations to build stronger relationships by linking customers, partners, and suppliers via the internet. In addition, the company's products can improve the performance of an e-business by providing reporting and analysis against the ever-expanding amount of transaction and profile data that is collected each day throughout the world wide web.

Founded in 1990, Business Objects pioneered the modern business intelligence industry by inventing and patenting a "semantic layer" that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has over 11,500 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ:BOBJ and PARIS BOURSE: code SICOVAM 12074, and included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.

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