Mumbai:

Driven by customer needs, the focus of the comprehensive partnership is to provide enhanced integration and optimisation between the Siebel Analytics products and the Teradata® Warehouse. Teradata is now a strategic platform partner in the Siebel alliances programme and Teradata Warehouse will become a supported database platform for Siebel Analytics.

The Siebel Enterprise Analytics Platform is optimised for high-performance native interaction with the Teradata Warehouse to enable customers to leverage the complete functionality and maximum performance provided by the Teradata data-warehousing platform. For example, Siebel Analytics generates SQL specific to Teradata, and makes use of specialised analytic functionality offered by the Teradata database. This enhances Siebel''s existing support for Teradata, currently deployed in joint customer sites worldwide.

With planned availability to initial customers in the second quarter and general availability targeted for the third quarter of 2004, all Siebel analytic applications will be optimised for the Teradata Warehouse. Also in the third quarter, Siebel and Teradata plan to make available an integration methodology between Teradata''s industry-specific logical data models and Siebel''s analytic application data models to minimise data redundancy and to speed implementation for joint customers. The Siebel Analytics product family includes more than 150 applications, in over 20 industries, providing actionable insight for all users, including executives, managers, partners and front-line employees.

According to Julian Beavis, vice president of Teradata, "This is a partnership driven by the needs of customers. Siebel and Teradata customers were clear: they wanted us to make it easy for them to integrate and use our best-of-breed technologies. The combination of Siebel''s packaged analytic applications and the Teradata Warehouse provides decision-support capabilities for improved customer insight, operational efficiency and competitive advantage."

"Teradata and Siebel share a vision that business intelligence and data warehousing solutions must provide just-in-time insight from vast quantities of detailed customer and enterprise data to drive fact-based actions and interactions," said Larry Barbetta, group vice president and general manager, Siebel Analytics. "We are pleased that through our partnership with Teradata, together we are providing joint customers with the integrated and optimised products to realise this vision today."