BusinessWeek Standardizes on Siebel eBusiness Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2002 Global Leader in Business Analysis Delivers Sales Efficiency and Unprecedented Customer Service with Siebel eBusiness Applications Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL SEBL Siebel Systems, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications software, today announced that BusinessWeek, one of the most widely read business news sources in the world and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MHP MHP Multimedia Home Platform (consumer electronics) MHP Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Turkish: National People's Party) MHP Mobile Home Park (district) MHP Maximum Human Performance ), is standardizing on Siebel eBusiness Applications to improve customer service, increase employee productivity and drive increased advertising revenue. BusinessWeek will use Siebel Sales, which enables selling organizations to grow revenues more quickly, to improve visibility into the sales pipeline, to identify and pursue top opportunities and to better manage those opportunities. Management and sales personnel will also benefit from improved forecasting and enhanced territory management capabilities. Siebel Sales provides sales teams with a single repository for all customer information, marketing collateral Marketing collateral, in marketing and sales, is the collection of media used to support the sales of a product or service. These sales aids are intended to make the sales effort easier and more effective. and presentation materials. BusinessWeek will use Siebel eBriefings to assist employees, partners and customers as they conduct and assimilate research. Siebel eBriefings provides employees with a portal to access personal, account, competitor and other company information that is based on aggregated content from a variety of sources, including corporate portals, the Web and online news providers. Siebel eBusiness Applications will also support BusinessWeek's mobile staff on both laptops in the near term and handheld devices in the future through the patented Siebel Remote and Synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. technology, the company's unique, data synchronization Keeping data in two or more computers up-to-date so that each repository contains the identical information. Data in handheld devices and laptops often require synchronization with the data in a desktop machine or server. technology for use with mobile disconnected users and between distributed database A database physically stored in two or more computer systems. Although geographically dispersed, a distributed database system manages and controls the entire database as a single collection of data. servers. The company currently has nearly 200 sales, marketing and production users of Siebel Sales. "Providing breaking news in an award-winning format each week takes tremendous collaboration on the part of our sales, marketing, writing and production teams. By providing our sales force with access to current customer preference, account and billing information, we empower our sales force to deliver superior customer service in a timely manner," said Chris Rousseau, Vice President of Technology and New Media, BusinessWeek. "In addition to automating our sales force processes, we will use Siebel eBriefings to disseminate relevant company information throughout our organization, so that employees stay informed and can achieve greater productivity," said Rousseau. BusinessWeek is the world's largest business magazine, with a worldwide circulation of nearly 1.2 million and more than 5.3 million readers worldwide each week. It is published weekly by The McGraw-Hill Companies in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and is distributed in 140 countries. More information about BusinessWeek is available at www.businessweek.com. About Siebel Systems Siebel Systems, Inc. is the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications solutions. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness applications software enabling (programming) software enabling - (Or "enabling") Modification of the design or implementation of software to allow internationalisation to take place. In particular, enabling may refer to the modification of software to support double-byte character sets, hence "Unicode multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple 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 37 countries. For more information, please visit Siebel Systems' Web site at www.siebel.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks or uncertainties. Future operating results of Siebel Systems may differ from the results discussed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements due to factors that include, but are not limited to, risks associated with customer relations, such as the availability of Siebel Systems' products and services, customer implementation of products and services, relationships with 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 distribution and services offerings. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of Siebel Systems are included in Siebel Systems' Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 1999 and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: Siebel is a trademark of Siebel Systems, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only. |
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