from DSSResources.comPowerful line-up of industry experts, practitioners set to present at Siebel Business Intelligence SummitSAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 8, 2005 -- Siebel Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SEBL), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, today announced a powerful line-up of presenters for the second annual Siebel Business Intelligence (BI) Summit, to be held October 16-19, 2005, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The conference and expo will gather thought leaders and participants in the BI industry and focus on key trends and next-generation requirements for enterprise-wide business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management, customer insight, and analytic applications. Featured speakers include Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata; Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research, The Data Warehousing Institute; and Eric Rogge, Vice President and Research Director, Ventana Research. These industry experts will join Lawrence A. Barbetta, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Siebel Business Analytics, and representatives from companies such as Alaska Airlines, American Power Conversion (APC), Autodesk, Cisco Systems, Medtronic, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, Royal Bank of Canada, and Wachovia to discuss how companies can leverage business intelligence to enable the insight-driven enterprise. "An insight-driven enterprise is one where key data permeates the organization so that executives, managers, and front-line employees alike gain relevant, timely, and actionable information that drives better decision-making, more intelligent customer interactions, and superior business results," said Paul Rodwick, Vice President, Marketing, Siebel Systems. "Siebel BI Summit brings together the industry's foremost BI experts, thought leaders, and practitioners under one roof to share their knowledge and experience on how companies can create an organization that is truly insight-driven." Siebel BI Summit is designed for both IT and business decision-makers. The conference will offer three separate tracks for these audiences, each featuring a compelling combination of customer presentations, roundtable discussions, and presentations by subject matter experts. The conference tracks include: -- Thought Leadership and Best Practices -- To provide the latest trends, best practices, and strategies in BI from the leading minds in the industry. -- Real-World Business Intelligence -- To offer real-world customer case studies from leading companies on how they are using BI in their day-to-day operations to drive unparalleled business value and performance. -- Business Intelligence Technology -- To provide the latest product and technology innovations in business analytics, predictive analytics, and data warehousing from product experts and implementation practitioners to help attendees learn the latest tips and implementation strategies. In addition, the conference, which is co-sponsored by Deloitte Consulting, EDS, IBM, Informatica, Sun Microsystems, and Teradata, will feature an extensive BI Pavilion, showcasing innovative solutions from Siebel Systems' alliance partners and BI experts. Siebel CustomerWorld Running Concurrently Siebel CustomerWorld is designed to help organizations of all types and sizes build their business around customers to drive growth, improve the bottom line, and create long-term competitive advantage. The conference runs concurrently with the Siebel BI Summit. More information about Siebel CustomerWorld 2005 and Siebel BI Summit 2005, including registration details, is available at www.siebelcustomerworld.com or www.siebelbisummit.com. 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. 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 and Service -- http://www.siebel.com/call-center; Sales Force Automation -- 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. 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. 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