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Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL), a leading provider of customer-facing solutions, has been recognized as a leader in midmarket sales force automation (SFA) applications, according to a November 2005 Forrester Wave report.(1) The report notes that Siebel CRM Professional Edition, the company's on premise CRM offering for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), "offers best-of-breed CRM to the midmarket with a focus on verticals." It goes on to state that "Siebel leads the market in vertical specialization, with deep industry-specific functionality incorporated into editions for financial services; insurance; health care; life sciences; communications, media and energy; and consumer goods." Forrester evaluated the top midmarket on premise SFA vendors across approximately 151 criteria. Siebel Systems received the highest overall vendor score as well as the highest scores in the Verticalization, Sales Management, Sales Analysis, Integration, and Product Strategy and Vision criteria. According to the report, Siebel CRM Professional Edition's strengths include deep industry-specific functionality and its simple migration path to Siebel's enterprise on premise solution. "It's an honor to be recognized by Forrester as a leading provider of midmarket CRM applications," said Robert Reid, Group Vice President, SMB, Siebel Systems. "We are dedicated to helping companies of all sizes maximize our world-class CRM functionality, allowing them to increase their business results. Siebel CRM Professional Edition delivers powerful CRM functionality in easy-to-deploy modules that allow midmarket organizations to choose the specific CRM capabilities they need to run their businesses better and be more competitive." Siebel's latest version, Siebel CRM Professional Edition 7.8, improves end user adoption through seamless integration with familiar desktop and Web applications and delivers built-in best practices to increase sales, marketing, and service effectiveness. Siebel CRM Professional Edition 7.8 also provides enhanced call center functionality through integration with Siebel's hosted contact center solution, Siebel Contact OnDemand. About Siebel CRM Solutions for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Siebel Systems offers world-class solutions for small and medium-sized organizations, including both hosted and on premise offerings that embed best practices garnered from Siebel's experience working with the world's leading companies. For growing organizations seeking a complete, fast-to-deploy CRM offering, Siebel CRM OnDemand provides a hosted solution that requires no up-front investments in hardware or software and no additional maintenance, upgrade, or support costs. Siebel CRM OnDemand delivers unique capabilities such as powerful real-time and historical analytics, prebuilt contact center capabilities, and prebuilt industry-specific solutions. For midsized organizations that prefer to maintain control of their hardware and applications on-site, Siebel CRM Professional Edition delivers a leading software solution that provides extended CRM functionality with powerful customization and integration tools. To learn more about Siebel solutions for SMBs please visit www.siebel.com/smb. 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. (1) "The Forrester Wave(TM): Midmarket Sales Force Automation, Q4 2005" and "Midmarket Sales Force Automation Scorecard Summary: Siebel," by Liz Herbert (with John Ragsdale and Jessica Harrington), November 22, 2005. 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. 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