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Siebel Systems to Optimize for Intel Itanium Processors

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 03:00 CDT

Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL), a leading provider of business applications software, today announced with Intel(R) Corporation that it will certify Siebel business applications on Intel Itanium(R) processor-based platforms. The effort will allow Siebel customers faster access to time-sensitive data, the purchasing flexibility of industry-wide hardware support, low total cost of ownership and high performance and reliability.

Siebel Systems and Intel are working together to ensure the HP/UX operating system will be optimized for Intel's complete range of 64-bit server platforms, including Intel Itanium and Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor-based systems in future releases. This project is part of a joint development program between Siebel Systems and Intel, and will be issued in an upcoming release.

"We are pleased to be able to offer all of our customers extended choice for performance and scalability of Siebel's customer-facing solutions," said Skip Bacon, VP of Technology at Siebel Systems. "Specifically this effort will provide large enterprise customers improved scalability on large SMP computers, an architecture that provides fast performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously. We look forward to continuing to work with Intel and deliver world-class offerings for our customers in the area of proven large-scale deployments."

Siebel Systems' product development team will work directly with software developers from Intel's Software and Solutions Group to take full advantage of Intel's multi-core technology to deliver higher performing solutions, provide support for the Intel Itanium processor family, and optimize its suite of applications to meet the performance and scalability needs of its largest customers.

"By optimizing for the Intel Itanium processor family, Siebel Systems demonstrates its alignment with customer requirements for improved performance, reliability and scalability," said Richard Wirt, VP of Intel's Software and Solutions Group. "Our long term goal is to ensure the two companies continue to work closely together on software development support, so that Siebel's customers will be able to benefit from future Intel platform advancements."

About Siebel Systems

Siebel Systems is the world's leading provider of customer-facing solutions that deliver demonstrable business results and long-term competitive advantage. Siebel's multichannel offerings allow organizations to intelligently manage and coordinate all customer interactions across the Web, contact center, field sales/service force, branch/retail network, and indirect and partner distribution channels. Siebel solutions draw upon the company's best-in-class capabilities in customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, and customer data integration and can be deployed as licensed software or as a hosted service. Siebel solutions are tailored to the unique needs of 23 industries and incorporate industry-specific business processes, best practices, and business insight. They are the product of more than $2 billion in R&D investments and reflect over 11 years of experience with more than 4,000 organizations. Together with its extensive global network of alliance partners, Siebel provides the people, process, and technology expertise critical in driving business value from the deployment of customer-facing solutions. Over 3 million users worldwide in organizations of all sizes depend on Siebel solutions to deliver dramatic improvements in how they identify, acquire, retain, and serve customers. For more information, visit www.siebel.com.

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 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, Quarterly Reports on Form 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.

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.

Source: Business Wire

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