Corechange Delivers Comprehensive Portal Integration With Siebel eBusiness Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2002

New Corechange Connector Pack for Siebel eBusiness Applications

Provides Targeted Access to Siebel Data

Corechange, Inc., a global provider of enterprise portal framework software, today announced the availability of its Connector Pack for Siebel eBusiness Applications, providing comprehensive access to Siebel data through Corechange's Coreport portal. In addition, Corechange announced that the integration of Coreport version 5 with Siebel 6 and Siebel 7 has been successfully validated by Siebel Systems. Siebel Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SEBL) is a leading provider of multichannel eBusiness applications software.

Corechange's Coreport portal provides organizations with a single pervasive window into their extended enterprise that allows employees, customers, partners, and other stakeholders to have personalized, secure, and single-password access to enterprise content, applications, Web services, and productivity tools. Siebel Systems provides organizations with a proven set of industry-specific best practices, CRM applications software, and business processes, enabling corporations to sell to, market to, and serve customers across multiple channels and lines of business.

"One of the core value propositions of a portal is a prearranged set of partnerships and integrations. Better integration capabilities result in lower total cost of ownership. Therefore, a useful portal product will provide tools to help easily and quickly integrate content and collaboration with enterprise software applications," said Craig Roth, Vice President at META Group.

Corechange's Connector Pack for Siebel eBusiness Applications offers the following capabilities:

-- An easy-to-use, configurable mechanism that presents information from Siebel eBusiness Applications in one or more portal iframes, without the need for customer programming;

-- Out-of-the-box ability to present all Siebel business objects in the portal, along with their associated views including any customer configured views;

-- Ability for users to update the Siebel database from within the portal, with user access restrictions enforced; and

-- Ability for business users to access and view just the information that is relevant to them.

The result is that Siebel Systems' customers can get the information they need -- quickly -- with a rich, integrated portal interface that combines multiple business applications, documents, Web content, messages, and other relevant resources.

"The integration of Siebel eBusiness Applications with Corechange's Coreport portal software delivers a seamless solution to enable extended access to functionality and information from across the enterprise," said Michael Straub, Alliances Technical Director at Siebel Systems.

"Increasingly, Corechange customers are seeking ways to gain maximum return on investment by delivering more direct, targeted access to the rich data and functionality in Siebel eBusiness Applications," said Ray Tacoma, Corechange Executive Vice President, Sales. "Corechange's Connector Pack for Siebel eBusiness Applications builds on our existing application integration architecture to provide comprehensive portal integration. We are very pleased to be offering this solution to Siebel customers and to have successfully achieved Siebel validation."

About Corechange

Corechange, Inc. delivers infrastructure software to develop, deploy and manage enterprise portals on a global scale. The company's Coreport product provides a "no-compromise" approach to integrating existing documents, content, applications, components, and services to deliver a best-of-breed portal solution. Coreport, the secure, scalable enterprise portal framework, provides a rich, highly personalized, role-based user experience. Corechange has a worldwide customer base, including American Electric Power (AEP), Credit Suisse First Boston, UnumProvident Corporation, EMC, Philips, Hitachi, Krispy Kreme, and Royal & SunAlliance. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft, Nortel Networks, and GE Medical Systems Information Technologies. Corechange is headquartered in Boston, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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