Informix and Siebel Systems Announce Global Alliance
Business Wire - October 27, 1998 11:14
MENLO PARK and SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998--Informix Corporation (Nasdaq: IFMX), the technology leader in enterprise database-powered solutions, and Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL) today announced a global alliance that brings Siebel's Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) solutions to Informix(R) Dynamic Server(tm). Customers can now deploy Siebel's integrated family of sales, marketing and customer service products on Informix platforms.
"Informix understands the business-critical role ERM solutions play in increasing sales, marketing and customer service effectiveness," said Bruce Cleveland, vice president alliances for Siebel. "The combination of Siebel's ERM applications and Informix Dynamic Server will enable customers to easily and quickly deploy highly scalable, world-class solutions for managing their customer relationships."
As a "Premier Platform Partner" in the Siebel Alliance Program, Informix and Siebel are working together to ensure tight integration between current and future versions of Informix and Siebel applications. Additionally, both companies plan to sell and market their products to mutual customers running Siebel applications on the Informix Dynamic Server.
"Our partnership with Siebel, the leading worldwide provider of ERM systems, presents customers with a superior solution on which to run their business into the next millennium," said Diane Fraiman, vice president of marketing for Informix. "By combining Informix' record of success and leadership in the OLTP and data warehousing markets with Siebel's leading sales, marketing and customer services applications, joint customers have a long-term comprehensive solution for the challenges facing business growth and complexity."
Siebel offers the most comprehensive family of sales, service and marketing information solutions available. Siebel's integrated ERM application software -- including Siebel Sales Enterprise, Siebel Marketing Enterprise, Siebel Call Center and Siebel Service Enterprise -- enable sales, marketing and service professionals to increase sales productivity, enhance customer satisfaction and capitalize on each moment of value with the customer.
The Informix Dynamic Server enables IT solutions to grow with and adapt to changing business requirements. Its underlying technology allows the Siebel applications to scale from desktops to departments to enterprise-wide systems. Further, Informix Dynamic Server's database architecture allows customers to effectively use all business information assets to better compete in the marketplace -- today and well into the next century.
About Informix
Informix Corporation, based in Menlo Park, California, provides innovative database products that assist the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database server, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, high performance OLTP, and Web/e-commerce. For more information, contact the sales office nearest you or visit our Web site at www.informix.com.
About Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: SEBL) is the world's leading supplier of Enterprise Relationship Management systems for organizations focused on increasing sales, marketing, and customer service effectiveness in field sales, service organizations, telesales, telemarketing, call centers, and third-party resellers. The company's software combines a standards-based open architecture with new and emerging technologies to enable exceptional scalability, configurability, functionality, and performance. Additional Siebel Systems product and service information is located on the World Wide Web at www.siebel.com.
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CONTACT: Informix Software, Inc.
Gayle Uchida, 650/926-6601
guchida@informix.com
or
Siebel Systems, Inc.
Tamara Ireland Stone, 650/295-5455
tstone@siebel.com
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