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Siebel Business Analytics with Enhanced Integration and Optimization for Teradata Warehouse Now Available

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - October 4, 2004 - Reinforcing their strategic partnership announced in April 2004, Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL), a leading provider of business applications software, and Teradata, the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), today announced at the Siebel Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles that Siebel Business Analytics applications are now integrated and optimized for the Teradata Warehouse. Together with the Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse, the comprehensive suite of Siebel Business Analytics provide users across the entire enterprise with the ability to "ask any question of any data" at any time with no limitations.
Today's announcement confirms the general availability of additional integration and optimization of Siebel Business Analytics platform and applications for Teradata Warehouse. Joint development announced at the formation of the companies' strategic platform partnership in April 2004 has resulted in:

Bank Of America Investment * Enhanced Siebel Business Analytics extraction-load-transformation plans to leverage Teradata's high performance load and update utilities.
* Siebel Business Analytics data warehouse data models and indexing strategies adjusted and tuned for Teradata Warehouse, to leverage Teradata's high performance and unique parallel processing capabilities.
* Siebel Business Analytics generating SQL optimized for Teradata and using specialized analytic functionality offered by the Teradata database.

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Investment Opportunity This integration and optimization makes Siebel Business Analytics platform and applications ideal for all customers seeking high-performance, native interaction with the Teradata Warehouse. The combined solution allows joint customers to leverage the complete functionality and maximum performance provided by the Teradata data warehousing platform in providing a wide range of cross-enterprise analysis capabilities, embedded best practices, and metrics to deliver actionable insight for all employees.

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Banc Of America Investment In addition, Siebel and Teradata are announcing the availability of an integration methodology between Teradata's industry-specific logical data models and Siebel Business Analytics application data models. Siebel Business Analytics applications include pre-built ETL plans and logical and physical data warehouse models that augment and integrate with Teradata industry-specific logical data models. The integration methodology ensures Siebel Business Analytics applications can run directly against Teradata data models that have been supplemented with required information, such as detailed customer interaction data, thus minimizing data redundancy and accelerating implementation for joint customers. The combination of Siebel and Teradata data models provide a consolidated, current and high reliability Enterprise Data Warehouse that enables a single view of the business for executives, management and employees across the enterprise.

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Banking Investment Finally, the companies announced immediate availability of Siebel's new enterprise analytic applications for sales, service, marketing, financial, workforce and supply chain functions for initial customers on the Teradata Warehouse. These new applications provide organizations with comprehensive insight about the impact financial, staffing, strategic sourcing and customer management decisions have on performance across the entire enterprise value chain.

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Investment Solution Strategic "The comprehensive, cross-enterprise nature of Siebel Business Analytics significantly leverages the capabilities of Teradata Warehouse to provide timely insight across finance, human resources, customer, and supply chain interactions to increase organizational effectiveness and help drive revenues," said Scott Gnau, Vice President of Product Strategy and Program Management for Teradata. "We are pleased to expand the commitment to provide our joint customers with a leading integrated business intelligence platform offering high-performance and scalability to meet the demanding analytic requirements of the world's largest organizations."

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Investment Banking Services "Responding to customer demand, we are pleased to deepen our partnership with Teradata and our support of the Teradata Warehouse with the release of Siebel Business Analytics," said Larry Barbetta, Group Vice President and General Manager, Siebel Analytics. "Teradata supports some of the largest and most sophisticated analytic deployments in operation, and the combination of Teradata Warehouse and Siebel Business Analytics will provide our customers with a solution that delivers real-time insight for more effective decision making to thousands of employees, managers and executives involved in mission-critical operations."

Bank Investment Siebel and Teradata are presenting and exhibiting the joint solution this week at Siebel Business Intelligence Summit 2004, Los Angeles and at the 18th annual Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference and Expo, October 10-14 in Seattle.

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Online Investment Services Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services. Organizations around the world rely on the power of Teradata's award-winning solutions (www.teradata.com) to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships and profitability.

Accompany Essential Investment About Siebel Systems

Investment Company Siebel Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of business applications software, enabling corporations to sell to, market to, and serve customers across multiple channels and lines of business. With more than 3,500 customer deployments worldwide, Siebel Systems provides organizations with a proven set of industry-specific best practices, CRM applications, market-leading analytics products, and business processes, empowering them to consistently deliver superior customer experiences and establish more profitable customer relationships. Siebel Systems' sales and service facilities are located in more than 30 countries.

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