Corio Announces Support for Siebel eBusiness 2000.Business Editors/High Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- April 18, 2000 Corio, Inc., a leading application service provider (ASP), today announced support for Siebel eBusiness 2000, the most complete and comprehensive family of eBusiness applications software today. Siebel eBusiness 2000 is the most comprehensive solution that allows organizations to manage, synchronize See synchronization. , and coordinate sales, marketing and customer service across all communication channels and points of customer contact -- including the Web, the call center, field sales and service, and reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. channels. Siebel eBusiness 2000 allows organizations to increase their productivity, enhance customer satisfaction and maximize revenue and profit by capitalizing on every moment of value in each customer interaction -- anytime, anyplace an·y·place adv. To, in, or at any place; anywhere. See Usage Note at everyplace. Adv. 1. anyplace - at or in or to any place; "you can find this food anywhere"; (`anyplace' is used informally for `anywhere') anywhere , in any currency and in any language. As a Strategic Platform Partner, Corio continues to deepen its alliance with 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. . Corio plans to incorporate the enhanced functionality of Siebel eBusiness 2000 into Orion, the company's technology platform. In doing so, these applications will be pre-integrated into relevant business processes, enabling customers to deploy complete, integrated solutions to address their business needs. Customers will also be able to leverage relevant new features of Siebel eBusiness 2000, including: -- New and enhanced dot.com products and e-commerce capabilities -- Product and pricing configurator -- Personalization engine -- Enhanced enterprise application integration -- Expanded channel-partner support -- Expanded wireless support In announcing its support for Siebel eBusiness 2000, Corio continues to further enhance its repertoire of hosted solutions with products from market-leading companies. "Siebel Systems and Corio share a commitment to help transform companies into eBusinesses," said Laurent Pacalin, vice president of business development and product management at Corio. "Siebel eBusiness 2000 provides a 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 eBusiness platform, while Corio looks to incorporate with complementary applications and services to bring an even more robust solution to the table." Corio continues to prove the value of its unique ASP model within its expanding customer base. With over 100 contracts in place, Corio projects its solutions will create approximately $170 million in savings over the next five years. "Corio and Siebel Systems share a commitment and dedication to transforming old economy businesses into highly successful eBusinesses," said Bruce Cleveland, vice president of Alliances at Siebel Systems. "We respect Corio's ongoing efforts to innovate in·no·vate v. in·no·vat·ed, in·no·vat·ing, in·no·vates v.tr. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. v.intr. To begin or introduce something new. within the ASP model and to create hosted solutions that directly address the business needs of large and small companies." About Corio, Inc. Corio, Inc. is a leading enterprise application services See ASP and Web services. provider, or ASP. Corio provides integrated, world-class application solutions over a secure network for a monthly fee. Corio offers software applications from PeopleSoft and SAP for enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. , Siebel Systems for customer relationship manangement, BroadVision, Commerce One and Moai for e-commerce and ChangePoint, Cognos and E.piphany for business intelligence and industry-specific applications. Customers gain the benefits of a comprehensive eBusiness infrastructure without bringing the associated costs, complexity and IT challenges in-house. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , Corio is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with 15 offices across the U.S. Additional information about Corio is available at http://www.corio.com. About Siebel Systems Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL SEBL Siebel Systems, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) is the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications software. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness application 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 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's Web site at www.Siebel.com. Corio is a trademark of Corio, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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