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Siebel CRM OnDemand Provides Enterprise-Class Power for Companies Large and Small; Customer Wins, Rapid Product Development Cycle and Increased Industry Recognition Underscore CRM Leader's Hosted Software Momentum.


BOSTON -- 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 NASDAQ
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:SEBL SEBL Siebel Systems, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, today highlighted the unprecedented growth and innovation of Siebel CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  OnDemand. As disclosed in the company's preliminary third quarter earnings announcement and investor conference call, total contract value for the third quarter of 2005 for Siebel CRM OnDemand is expected to be approximately $11M, an increase of 49 percent year-over-year. These strong results have been driven by customer wins around the world among large enterprise organizations and SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) alike and by Siebel's more than 100 solution and technology partners. Siebel CRM OnDemand has also continued to be recognized by leading industry analysts and recently won two prestigious awards. In addition, Siebel's hosted software solutions and deployment capabilities are a critical enabler of its new Customer Adaptive Solutions Applications Strategy and Architecture, announced separately today. Siebel Customer Adaptive Solutions enable organizations to better understand and adapt to the needs of their customers in response to rapidly changing business requirements (see separate press release for additional information). E[acute accent acute accent
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]"We are delivering a complete solution, not just a toolkit, in a simple-to-use, fast-to-deploy hosted application," said Keith Raffel, Group Vice President, Siebel CRM OnDemand Products. "Our customers want the kind of enterprise-class solution that Siebel is known for, with pre-built, advanced analytics features and a fully integrated hosted contact center."

E[acute accent]Growing Worldwide Customer Demand

E[acute accent]Siebel's hosted solutions continue to gain increased usage among companies of all sizes worldwide. New customers turning to Siebel's hosted CRM solution to drive sales, marketing and services success include:

E[acute accent]--Pulte Homes, the largest U.S. homebuilder by revenue with operations in 54 markets and 28 states, selected Siebel CRM OnDemand and Contact OnDemand to simplify its business and the critical interactions for thousands of sales professionals whose primary focus is to deliver an exceptional homebuying experience to customers. Siebel Systems' strategic vision, customer service, and proven expertise combined to make Pulte Homes' choice a low-risk decision.

E[acute accent]--Kingway CAPS, based in Exeter, NH, is a leader in the newly emerging pick-by-display market. CAPS -- Computer Assisted Picking System -- is the company's automated order selection system that doubles the productivity of order picking in warehouses while virtually eliminating pick errors. With more than 100 CAPS installations globally, the company selected Siebel CRM OnDemand to help it provide more accurate sales forecasts Sales forecast

A key input to a firm's financial planning process. External sales forecasts are based on historical experience, statistical analysis, and consideration of various macroeconomic factors.
, quicker lead qualification, and timely customer support.

E[acute accent]--Lesite.tv, a division of France 5, the French national knowledge channel, consolidates educational content for teachers and students and distributes it via its Web site -- www.lesite.tv. The company chose Siebel CRM OnDemand to help introduce a new education initiative aimed at increasing lead transformation, improving customer satisfaction, enhancing pipeline management and visibility, and accelerating deal closure.

E[acute accent]Rapid Pace of Product Innovation

E[acute accent]Key to the momentum of Siebel's hosted CRM solutions has been the company's rapid pace of innovation, which has enabled the delivery of major capabilities at a five-to-ten times faster rate than other hosted vendors. Since its launch, Siebel CRM OnDemand has released nine upgrades, including:

E[acute accent]--the industry's first and only real-time and historic analytic capabilities

E[acute accent]--a unique Sales Process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation.  Coach for replicating sales success

E[acute accent]--the first and only pre-built vertical editions (Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, High Technology, Life Sciences, and Automotive)

E[acute accent]--marketing segmentation capabilities

E[acute accent]--out-of-the-box support for both Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see .

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook
 and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling.  

E[acute accent]--the first hosted contact center solution available as a built-in option to Siebel CRM OnDemand

E[acute accent]"Small and medium-sized businesses turn to Siebel CRM OnDemand because it was built based on the company's 11-plus years of CRM experience," said Rob Reid, Group Vice President, SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. , Siebel Systems. "With Siebel CRM OnDemand, companies of all sizes can take advantage of advanced CRM functionality via a delivery model that is easy to use and cost-effective."

E[acute accent]Strong Global Partner Presence

E[acute accent]In a little over one year since European language versions of Siebel CRM OnDemand were made available, Siebel has measured strong global momentum in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. Driven by the launch of its SMB initiative in December 2004, Siebel is continuously strengthening its channel management and marketing team to respond to growing demand and has added more than 100 channel and technology alliance partners worldwide, including 36 channel partners in Europe, 12 in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , and eight in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. .

E[acute accent]Positive Endorsements and Awards From Industry Experts

E[acute accent]The latest positive analyst report is Nucleus Research's ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  Scorecard (for the On-Demand CRM Market). Siebel CRM OnDemand received a higher overall customer satisfaction rating than Salesforce.com for its hosted CRM solution, garnering a 4.4 out of 5.0 in five key areas that factor into overall customer ROI. Siebel bested Salesforce.com in Vendor, User Adoption/Satisfaction, and Business Impact, reflecting the importance of business dealings with Siebel Systems and value-added product capabilities such as analytics, data warehousing See data warehouse.

data warehousing - data warehouse
, hosted contact center, sales forecasting, business processes, and industry vertical editions. E[acute accent]The On-Demand CRM Market report can be viewed at the Siebel CRM OnDemand Web site, www.crmondemand.com. E[acute accent]In addition, Siebel CRM OnDemand received the coveted cov·et  
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 award for Best Execution of a Midmarket IT Solution by attendees at this year's Midsize Enterprise Summit. Produced by Vision Events(R), a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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) company, Midsize Enterprise Summit is solely focused on the requirements of midsize businesses and attracts CIOs and senior IT executives from midsize companies across a wide range of industries. CRM Magazine also selected Siebel Systems as a Market Leader in the Midmarket category of the 2005 Market Leader Awards.

E[acute accent]About Siebel CRM OnDemand

E[acute accent]Siebel CRM OnDemand is a hosted CRM offering delivered over the Web and accessible from an Internet browser See Web browser.  at a fixed price per user per month. Customers can deploy Siebel CRM OnDemand quickly, easily, and affordably without any up-front IT investments. Hosted by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Siebel CRM OnDemand delivers complete sales, marketing, and service functionality; built-in customer analytics; virtual call center technology; embedded best practices; and world-class hosting services and support. Siebel CRM OnDemand is now available for purchase. For more information, visit www.crmondemand.com

E[acute accent]About Siebel Systems

E[acute accent]Siebel Systems is a leading provider of software solutions and services that drive value and loyalty in client-customer relationships, providing best-in-class capabilities in on-premise and hosted customer relationship management (CRM), business analytics, and customer data integration. Siebel's new Customer Adaptive Solutions enable organizations to model their customer-centric business processes in order to drive the most effective customer interactions, gain increased insight over time, and continually realign re·a·lign  
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1. To put back into proper order or alignment.

2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between.
 those processes for systemic and consistent improvement. With more than $2 billion in R&D investments, 11-plus years of customer software experience, an extensive global ecosystem of alliance partners, and more than 4,000 customers and 3.7 million live users, Siebel is the proven choice in helping organizations of all types and sizes achieve customer-driven business results. For more information, visit www.siebel.com.

E[acute accent]For more information on Siebel Systems solutions and services, please visit our Web site: CRM -- http://www.siebel.com/crm; OnDemand Solutions -- http://www.crmondemand.com; Industry CRM -- http://www.siebel.com/industry-crm; Call Center & Service -- http://www.siebel.com/call-center; Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists.  -- http://www.siebel.com/sales-force-automation; Marketing Automation -- http://www.siebel.com/marketing-automation; Business Intelligence -- http://www.siebel.com/business-intelligence; Integration Solutions -- http://www.siebel.com/integration-solutions; CRM Services -- http://www.siebel.com/crm-services

E[acute accent]Except for the historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risk 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 our pending merger with Oracle Corporation, customer relations, such as the availability of Siebel Systems' products and services, customer implementation of products and services, relationships with customers, 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.
, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov. Siebel Systems assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release.

E[acute accent]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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