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Joint Customers Gain Ability to Leverage Powerful Enterprise Analytic Applications Across Microsoft Platform

LOS ANGELES - Oct. 4, 2004 - Today at Siebel Business Intelligence Summit, as part of an expanded strategic alliance focused on business intelligence, Siebel Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced optimization of Siebel Business Analytics for a variety of Microsoft products and technologies. Siebel's new enterprise analytics applications, also announced today, are immediately available optimized for Microsoft SQL Server. The two companies have been working to enable joint customers to realize greater performance through tight integration of Microsoft platform and Siebel's analytic solutions. As a result Microsoft SQL Server has become the fastest-growing database for use with Siebel Business Analytics, and Microsoft Windows Server has become the leading platform for Siebel Business Analytics deployments, enabling more customers to realize the TCO benefits of the Microsoft platform.
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Online Stock Market Trading In addition, Microsoft announced its selection of Siebel analytic applications and has plans to make it available to 10,000 employees to increase sales and marketing effectiveness. This deployment will showcase the integration of Siebel analytic applications and key Microsoft platform technologies including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Analysis Services and Microsoft Reporting Services.

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Stock Market Game * Windows platform integration. All Siebel Business Analytics products are optimized to run on the Microsoft Windows Server platform. Siebel Systems and Microsoft engineers have worked closely to ensure seamless integration between the two companies' platforms, and have together performed a range of performance and scalability tests to enable high-performance support for large numbers of users.

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* SQL Server Relational Database optimization. The Siebel Business Analytics platform includes a SQL Server-specific code generation engine that is tuned to access the full capabilities of SQL Server, delivering optimal performance and scalability. This ensures that all Siebel Business Analytics applications leverage the power of SQL Server to handle complex business intelligence queries and deliver multiterabyte scalability for thousands of concurrent users.

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* SQL Server Analysis Services support. Siebel Business Analytics platform supports SQL Server Analysis Services through XML for Analysis (XMLA), an open standard providing connectivity to online analytical processing (OLAP) data sources. As part of this effort, Siebel Systems has developed an MDX query generation engine specifically designed to support Microsoft Analysis Services as a data source. Siebel Business Analytics offers a unique capability to simultaneously access both SQL Server relational data and Analysis Services multidimensional data to best answer a single business question. This enables exceptional flexibility for building analytic applications leveraging the strength and power of the Microsoft business intelligence platform.

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* .NET Web Services support. The full capabilities of Siebel Business Analytics platform are exposed as Web services. This allows .NET application developers to focus on delivering business value by easily incorporating into their applications the power and performance of Siebel's analytical engine to generate insight from raw data.

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* Microsoft Office support. Siebel Business Analytics platform offers seamless integration with Microsoft Office applications and SharePoint Portal Sever. For example, Microsoft Excel workbooks linked to Siebel Business Analytics platform can be dynamically updated as corporate data changes, ensuring that decisions are based on the most current and relevant information.

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* SQL Server 2005 optimization and integration. In addition, the Siebel and Microsoft product development teams are working together to ensure deeper integration in future releases. Microsoft is incorporating features in SQL Server 2005 for optimal performance of Siebel Business Analytics platform. Siebel will also be enhancing its Siebel Business Analytics platform to support new BI features in SQL Server 2005 relational database and Analysis Services. The companies are also working to enable tight integration with Reporting Services.

Stock Market Trading "We look forward to our continued work with Siebel to deliver further integration of Siebel Business Analytics with key SQL Server 2005 capabilities, including Reporting Services. This is additional evidence of significant customer adoption of Reporting Services, with more than 100,000 downloads in the first eight months since launching in January," said Mike Tuchen, general manager of SQL Server Marketing at Microsoft. "With this continued collaboration, we expect to further increase our joint customer momentum."

Stock Investing For Dummy "We are pleased to announce our expanded relationship with Microsoft in the area of BI and analytics," said Larry Barbetta, group vice president and general manager of Business Analytics at Siebel Systems. "Siebel Systems and Microsoft are both committed to leveraging technology to enable the rapid deployment of powerful analytic solutions that deliver demonstrable business results and are cost effective. Together we are offering our customers solutions that enable executives, managers and front-line employees to improve the quality of decision-making and business effectiveness across the enterprise."

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