Enterprise business software provider J.D Edwards & Company and Siebel Systems, Inc. today announced a strategic sales and product partnership in which they will collaborate to deliver Web-based enterprise and E-business solutions. Under the agreement, J.D. Edwards will resell Siebel`s market-leading sales applications to extend and enhance the customer-centric supply chain capabilities of its software suite, tightly integrating J.D. Edwards OneWorldTM with Siebel`s Web-based front office software. The solution serves as a key part of J.D. Edwards` larger E-business offering, to be announced at the Company`s international customer conference next week.
"The name of the game is leverage - leveraging the Internet and e-business - so customers can create new revenue opportunities," said Doug Massingill, president and CEO of J.D. Edwards.
"Companies that buy the joint solution will extend their supply chain to provide a complete view of the customer life-cycle, giving them the ability to identify, acquire and retain customers, and take advantage of new business and market opportunities being created by the Internet."
Siebel`s Web-based architecture integrated with J.D. Edwards` component-based OneWorld will enable J.D. Edwards` customers to share information seamlessly between their OneWorld enterprise applications and Siebel`s front office applications, creating a rich and agile solution for competing in today`s information economy.
"Customers are demanding applications that seamlessly extend their enterprise to the Web, that preserve and enhance their previous IT investments, and that begin to deliver the value always promised by the ERP vendors," said David Dobrin, Partner with Benchmarking Partners, an industry analyst firm. "With this partnership between Siebel Systems and J.D. Edwards customers can attain greater ROI from their IT investment, and feel its impact in terms of business growth."
According to Thomas G. Hudson, president and chief executive officer of a mutual customer, Computer Network Technology, Inc. (CNT), "This partnership gives CNT the best of both worlds - a flexible enterprise software solution that is tightly integrated with feature-rich customer, marketing and sales applications. No single vendor can provide that today. We chose J.D. Edwards and Siebel products independently because we found each to be the best product to meet our business needs. Now that they are linking these critical information systems, we will be able to extend our supply chain to our customers, using the Internet to execute ideas rapidly for competitive advantage."
As partners, J.D. Edwards and Siebel Systems will work together to:
Tightly integrate their respective applications;
Continuously develop new products and functionality to address the needs of their joint customers;
Commit the appropriate resources and funds to promote the partnership and develop a seamless service delivery model that ensures 100% customer satisfaction.
Through this partnership, J.D. Edwards becomes the first member of Siebel`s Channel Alliance program, which will allow organizations to purchase Siebel`s applications from the technology providers with whom they already have established relationships.
"J.D. Edwards is the undisputed, global market leader in delivering enterprise solutions into mid-market organizations," said Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO, Siebel Systems, Inc. "We believe that this partnership will bring significant value to J.D. Edwards, to Siebel Systems and most importantly, to our mutual customers, who can now benefit from a cost-effective, seamlessly integrated front office to back office solution."
Siebel Systems and J.D. Edwards plan to deliver comprehensive integration between Siebel Enterprise Applications and OneWorld by the end of 1999.
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEBL) is the world`s leading supplier of Web-based front office software systems. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of sales, marketing and customer service application software for field sales, customer service, telesales, telemarketing, field service, third-party resellers and Internet based e-commerce and self service. Siebel Systems products are designed to meet the needs of small, medium and large businesses. Siebel Systems sales and service facilities are deployed locally in over 20 countries and can be reached through the World Wide Web at www.siebel.com
J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards provides Idea to Action(tm) software for managing the enterprise and supply chain. The Company`s integrated applications give customers control over their front office, manufacturing, logistics/distribution and finance processes for the consumer products, industrial and service industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action(tm) with ActivEra(tm), a collection of tools and technologies that extend the J.D. Edwards` SCOREx and AIMx supply chain solutions and OneWorld(tm) and WorldSoftware(tm) enterprise business software. ActivEra allows customers to change their enterprise software quickly and easily during and after implementation. The Company`s solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT(r), UNIX(r) and OS/400(r), and are Java(tm) and HTML enabled.
Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1998 revenues of $934 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 1-800-727-5333, or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com.
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