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 (TM) . 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 (TM) has become the leading platform for Siebel Business Analytics deployments, enabling more customers to realize the TCO benefits of the Microsoft platform.

Siebel Business Analytics solutions are designed to increase revenues, lower costs, speed time to value and gain competitive advantage by providing powerful insight into issues and opportunities that impact business performance.