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Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL) -- Innovator in Employee Benefits Administration Deploys Siebel CRM OnDemand -- Integrated with Siebel Contact OnDemand -- for Comprehensive Sales, Marketing, Service, and Contact Center Capabilities Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, today announced that Lighthouse1, a leading provider of hosted consumer-directed healthcare (CDHC) administration solutions, has selected Siebel CRM OnDemand to support its customer-facing business processes, including sales, marketing, and customer service. Based in Minneapolis, Lighthouse1 provides the benefits administration industry with the premier hosted solution for the administration of Section 125, 105, 132, and other pre-tax healthcare spending programs. To support the company's dramatic growth, Lighthouse1 evaluated a number of hosted CRM solutions to replace its spreadsheet-driven infrastructure across sales, marketing, and customer service. Siebel CRM OnDemand, coupled with Siebel Contact OnDemand, met Lighthouse1's requirements for an easy-to-deploy, comprehensive CRM and contact center solution. "As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider ourselves, we intrinsically knew the benefits of a hosted solution, including faster time to value, very low start-up costs, and scalability," said Jeff Fritz, Chief Executive Officer at Lighthouse1. "With its completeness across all customer-facing processes, Siebel's offering really impressed us. From sales pipeline visibility to lead generation management and powerful contact center capabilities for streamlining customer support, Siebel CRM OnDemand was the only solution that had everything we needed." Another key factor in the selection process was that Siebel CRM OnDemand and Siebel Contact OnDemand featured built-in business intelligence reporting capabilities that captured all phases of the company's growth. For example, in the sales organization Lighthouse1 utilizes the analytic capabilities of Siebel CRM OnDemand to improve pipeline management, drive higher close rates, and accelerate the sales process. With the analytic capabilities of Siebel Contact OnDemand, it is now easy to gain insight into contact center metrics and service metrics, including measuring and shortening call wait times, capturing customer satisfaction and feedback, facilitating cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, and identifying areas for improvement across contact center staff. "Our Siebel CRM OnDemand solution gives us everything we need to run our customer-facing business," said Jeff Bakke, Chief Operating Officer at Lighthouse1. "By automating processes and giving us the analysis and reporting we need to make real-time decisions across the company, we can spend more time interacting with and building relationships with our customers. And with Siebel's vision for the future of hosted CRM, we know we'll be able to add future functionality as we need it." Siebel's hosted software solutions and deployment capabilities are a critical enabler of its new Customer Adaptive Solutions Applications Strategy and Architecture. Companies embracing Siebel Customer Adaptive Solutions will be able to more effectively and quickly anticipate customer needs, realign their customer-facing business processes for systemic and consistent improvement, and direct the right actions across their businesses to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability. About Siebel CRM OnDemand Siebel CRM OnDemand is a hosted CRM offering delivered over the Web and accessible from an Internet browser at a fixed price per user per month. Customers can deploy Siebel CRM OnDemand quickly, easily, and affordably without any up-front IT investments. Hosted by IBM, Siebel CRM OnDemand delivers complete sales, marketing, and service functionality; built-in customer analytics; virtual call center technology; embedded best practices; and world-class hosting services and support. Siebel CRM OnDemand is now available for purchase. For more information, visit www.crmondemand.com. About Lighthouse1 Lighthouse1 delivers consumer directed healthcare (CDHC) administration software solutions including Lighthouse1 OnDemand(TM), the high performance Software as a Service (SaaS), to resolve challenges in the administration of Section 125, 105, 132 and other pre-tax spending programs in the healthcare and employee benefits industry. Its mission is to use the latest technology and services to assist and support CDHC administrators in the management of health care account services. Lighthouse1 OnDemand(TM) allows third party administrators and healthcare providers to manage services for employer plans that include: flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements, variable employee benefits arrangements, health savings accounts and transit plans. More information is available at www.lighthouse1.com. About Siebel Systems Siebel Systems is a leading provider of software solutions and services that drive value and loyalty in client-customer relationships, providing best-in-class capabilities in on-premise and hosted customer relationship management (CRM), business analytics, and customer data integration. Siebel's new Customer Adaptive Solutions enable organizations to model their customer-centric business processes in order to drive the most effective customer interactions, gain increased insight over time, and continually realign those processes for systemic and consistent improvement. With more than $2 billion in R&D investments, 11-plus years of customer software experience, an extensive global ecosystem of alliance partners, and more than 4,000 customers and 3.7 million live users, Siebel is the proven choice in helping organizations of all types and sizes achieve customer-driven business results. 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. 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