VALITY SUPPORTS SIEBEL 7
LEADER IN ENTERPRISE DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS JOINS SIEBEL ALLIANCE PROGRAM AS SOFTWARE PARTNER
Chicago, IL., – (October 1, 2001) – Vality® Technology, Inc., the leader in enterprise data quality management solutions, today announced that it has joined the Siebel Alliance Program as a Software Partner. Vality also announced its support for Siebel 7, the seventh major release of Siebel eBusiness Applications from Siebel Systems Inc., (Nasdaq: SEBL), the world’s leading provider of eBusiness applications software. Vality will submit the integration of its product, INTEGRITY for Siebel eBusiness Applications for validation with Siebel 7 within 90 days of general availability, providing organizations with complete eBusiness solutions that increase productivity, maximize revenue and profit, and significantly enhance customer acquisition, satisfaction, and retention.
Siebel Systems enables software vendors to easily integrate solutions through its open, extensible, advanced Smart Web Architecture. Unlike rudimentary HTML clients, Siebel Smart Web Architecture combines a zero-footprint, browser-based Web client and a user interface with levels of interactivity and usability traditionally available only in Windows applications. The Siebel Smart Web Architecture enables organizations to leverage the industry`s best eBusiness applications at the lowest total cost of ownership.
Siebel 7 extends the reach and functionality of Siebel Systems` industry-leading suite of integrated, multichannel eBusiness applications, enabling organizations to translate customer relationship strategy into execution by effectively aligning and rapidly integrating channels, employees and partners. Siebel 7 allows organizations to manage, synchronize and coordinate all customer touch points across the Web, call center, field sales and service personnel, and partner channels.
Vality’s INTEGRITY for Siebel eBusiness Applications is a best-of-class data quality solution that standardizes and matches diverse legacy records and real-time data input to achieve the highest level of data quality and produce accurate, complete, views of customers and all their relationships with the business.
“With Siebel Systems’ complete and comprehensive eBusiness vision, our joint customers will continue to realize tremendous value,” said Mark Atkins, President and CEO of Vality Technology. “Siebel 7 further establishes Siebel Systems as a leader in eBusiness solutions, and this integrated offering provides our customers with increased return on investment (ROI).”
The combined solution of Siebel 7 and INTEGRITY for Siebel eBusiness Applications will provide companies with a complete, reliable view of each customer for accurate householding, segmentation, and profiling; effective targeted marketing and cross-and up-selling; and improved customer service. The integrated offering will enable companies to leverage diverse data assets, realize a greater return on their marketing and IT investments, and better manage customer relationships for increased lifetime value. The solution will give Global 2000 companies control over data quality and 100 percent visibility on customers and all their relationships with the business – to optimize the return on investment of their customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives.
“When integrated with Siebel 7, Vality’s INTEGRITY for Siebel eBusiness Applications will enable our joint customers to effectively manage customer churn and increase customer loyalty,” said Catherine Cherubino, Senior Managing Director, Software and Industry Alliances for Siebel Systems. “Siebel Systems will continue to develop solutions with Vality that allow our joint customers to reduce their customer acquisition, service, and support costs and improve their ability to up-sell and cross-sell to their customers.”
Vality is sponsoring booth # 608 in the Partner Pavilion at Siebel User Week 2001 in Chicago on October 2, 2001.
About Vality Technology
Vality Technology (www.vality.com ) is the pioneer and recognized leader in data standardization and matching software as well as data quality consulting services. Its customers and partners include Global 5000 corporations in finance, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, energy, and utilities, including Aetna U.S. Healthcare®, IBM®, Marks & Spencer®, NatWest®, www.onlinesuppliers.com corp.™, Telstra®, and UPS®. These companies rely on Vality’s patent-pending technology to develop and implement enterprise data quality management solutions for the Internet economy. These solutions help companies re-engineer existing operational data and incoming real-time Web data to maintain high-quality enterprise data as well as achieve accurate, complete information on customers, suppliers and products and all their relationships for business applications. Vality was recently listed in Boston Magazine`s Best Places to Work; selected one of the 15 Stars of eCommerce by eCom Advisory; and named one of the TOP 500 Software companies by Software Magazine.
About Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL) is the world’s leading provider of eBusiness applications software. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness applications software, enabling multichannel sales, marketing, and customer service systems to be deployed over the Web, call centers, field, reseller channels, retail, and dealer networks. Siebel Systems’ sales and service facilities are located in more than 37 countries. For more information, please visit Siebel Systems’ Web site at www.siebel.com.
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Vality Technology, Inc.
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Except for the historical information contained herein, this press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risk or uncertainties. Future operating results of Vality Technology 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 Vality Technology products and services, customer implementation of products and services, relationships with 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.
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