Teradata and Siebel Systems Strategic Partnership Advances Solutions for Analytic Applications and Enterprise Business Intelligence

Business Wire, Sept 20, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Expanded and New Siebel Analytic Applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Financial, Workforce, Supply Chain and Executives Now Available for Teradata(R) Warehouse

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), and Siebel Systems, Inc., today announced availability of the complete suite of Siebel Business Analytics applications optimized for Teradata Warehouse(R). These new enterprise and expanded customer analytic applications extend the breadth and depth of analytic insight to drive business performance across sales, service, marketing, financial, workforce, supply chain and executive functions.

Companies using or considering Siebel Business Analytics' industry-specific, customer and enterprise analytic applications can now take advantage of the performance and scalability of the Teradata platform. Likewise, Teradata Warehouse customers can extend the value of the platform rapidly through prebuilt analytic applications for the whole enterprise.

The two companies announced their partnership in April 2004 to promote enterprise-wide analytics, immediately delivered integrated products and have continued to enhance the offering.

Teradata Warehouse is a top-tier supported database for all Siebel Business Analytics platform and application products. Now, Siebel Business Analytics has been optimized and tuned further to take advantage of the unique performance and scalability characteristics of Teradata, including Teradata Warehouse 8.0. New and expanded analytic applications covering more than 70 additional subject areas are now available for Teradata. Additionally, the companies have worked to leverage Teradata industry-specific Logical Data Models together with Siebel Business Analytics applications' physical data models. These advances are evidence of the ongoing collaboration and dedicated engineering efforts to integrate and optimize Siebel Business Analytics on the Teradata Warehouse.

The complete set of Siebel Business Analytics applications on Teradata is designed to deliver new levels of enterprise insight across all functional areas, with fast time-to-value with a low total cost of ownership. The analytic applications feature prebuilt database schema, packaged metadata and key performance indicators to enable the delivery of actionable business insight via role-based, intelligence dashboards and alerts. The applications include prebuilt extract-transform-load (ETL) routines to automate the loading of data from Siebel, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft applications, and a wide range of other enterprise sources.

The Teradata Warehouse is known for its parallel processing and high performance, supporting large numbers of users and a wide variety of analytic workloads. Customers who run Siebel Business Analytics applications on the Teradata platform will maximize their investment in both systems.

The companies have joint customers worldwide using the powerful combination of Teradata and Siebel Business Analytics, including Anheuser-Busch, Bayer Animal Health, DirecTV Operations, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Warner Home Video and Wellpoint.

Larry Barbetta, senior vice president and general manager, Siebel Business Analytics, said, "The focus of our partnership from the beginning has been to deliver the next generation of analytics involving rich, real-time insight to all front-line employees, managers and executives. Siebel Business Analytics optimized for Teradata Warehouse provides powerful data warehousing solutions for pervasive use across organizations in all industries."

Bob Fair, vice president and chief marketing officer of Teradata, said, "Teradata is committed to helping customers translate the volumes of detailed data that are generated across organizations today to actionable information. The goal is to improve the speed and precision of decision-making at all levels throughout the organization. Together, Teradata and Siebel are providing joint customers with the integrated and optimized products to achieve it."

The combined products are now available for sale and implementation.

About Siebel Systems

Siebel Systems is a 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.