ConnexT and Siebel Forge Alliance to Provide Powerful Customer Billing & Relationship Management Solutions for the Energy Industry.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 1998--

Integrated Solution Features ConnexT Forte(TM), Siebel Sales

and Service Enterprise Comprehensive Solutions

ConnexT Corporation, a leading developer of information systems and services for the energy industry, and Siebel Systems, Inc., a market leader in sales, marketing, and customer service information systems, have forged an alliance aimed at the deregulating energy industry.

This formalizes the initial steps to integrate ConnexT's utility-focused, Internet-enabled billing and rate management products with Siebel's enterprise applications. The resulting solution enables energy companies to extend their existing customer information systems to include new billing and rate management capabilities coupled with customer service, telemarketing and telesales functionality. It provides a cost effective, competitive advantage for dealing with an expanding market.

"The entire energy industry is experiencing radical change," said Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO of Siebel Systems. "Deregulation has created a competitive climate which will reward energy companies that quickly provide lower-cost energy solutions and significantly increased customer service. ConnexT's rate management and billing service software combined with Siebel Enterprise Applications is a powerful enterprise relationship management system for the utility industry that can help energy companies remain competitive while delivering the level of customer service this new market is demanding."

"Today's market requires energy companies deal with the pressures of deregulation while increasing their ability to grow market share - in effect, becoming highly competitive entities while business rules are in flux," said Robert Bismuth, president of ConnexT. "Energy companies need a highly flexible infrastructure that links into their existing customer information systems, handles complex billing issues and integrates all forms of customer interaction -- effectively mapping out the complete business relationship on a per customer basis. ConnexT and Siebel have combined strengths to create an extremely impactful, well-architected solution which meets exactly those requirements, delivering value to both our customers and to their energy customers."

This alliance uniquely ties together the powerful functionality of Siebel Sales Enterprise and Siebel Service Enterprise call center software and ConnexT's leading-edge billing product, Forte(TM), which implements flexible billing capability and offers complex rate testing, analysis and development. Under the terms of the agreement, ConnexT will offer full support and training for the integrated package. Siebel will provide ConnexT with second level support and will assist in marketing support and customer referrals.

"We are collaborating with Siebel on sales and marketing activities designed to quickly expand the availability of our solution to energy providers," said Bill Redinger, ConnexT vice president of Sales. "Those companies which have already previewed our solution have realized the distinct advantage it brings by interfacing with their existing customer information systems and providing the ability to unify multiple databases across their enterprise networks, yielding complete information about their customers -- from billing history to call center interactions."

Siebel Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ:SEBL) is the world's leading supplier of enterprise-class sales, marketing, and customer service information systems for organizations focused on increasing sales and service effectiveness in field sales, service organizations, telesales, telemarketing, call centers, and third-party resellers. The company's Windows-based client/server software combines a standards-based open architecture with new and emerging technologies to enable exceptional scalability, configurability, functionality, and performance. Other Siebel Systems' corporate alliances include Andersen Consulting, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Microsoft, Inc., and Price Waterhouse. Additional Siebel Systems product and service information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.siebel.com.

ConnexT is one of the first companies to offer an integrated set of Internet-enabled solutions for metering, distribution system design, facilities management and complete customer information systems, including bill consolidation services, and flexible bill calculation capabilities. Using this foundation, ConnexT offers energy providers a variety of next generation services for energy consumers, such as consumption warnings, notification of outages, etc. ConnexT's current customers include a variety of North American utilities and power marketers.

ConnexT is a privately held company with major products that include Tellus(TM), OneBill(TM), ConsumerLink(TM), OutAlert(TM), UseWatch(TM), InVision(TM), and Forte(TM). ConnexT is located at 1301 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900, Seattle, WA 98101 or may be reached by phone at 206/521-2100, via fax at 206/521-2400, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.connext.com.

CONTACT: ConnexT

Kelli Swanson, 206/521-2100

[e-mail]

or

MWW/Savitt

Julie Quattro, 206/689-8505

[e-mail]