VERITAS Announces Siebel Validation of Application Performance Management Solution, VERITAS i3 for Siebel(email this article)

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VERITAS Software (Nasdaq: VRTS - News) (Company Profile, Past Stories, Case Studies), the leading storage software provider, today announced at Siebel User Week 2003 that VERITAS i3(TM) for Siebel and Siebel eBusiness Applications version 7.5 have been successfully validated by Siebel Systems. Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL - News) is a leading provider of multi-channel business applications software. The VERITAS solution allows Siebel customers to optimize performance across multi-tiered Siebel eBusiness Applications, improving user response times and shortening deployments and upgrades.

Siebel Systems provides organizations with industry-specific best practices, CRM applications software, and business processes, enabling corporations to sell to, market to, and serve customers across multiple channels and lines of business. VERITAS i3 software solutions offer application-specific performance management, monitoring and tuning using a unique, low overhead technology, focusing on the end-user experience. By measuring application performance across the entire IT infrastructure, VERITAS i3 software can detect an application performance problem, diagnose the root cause, and provide expert tuning advice for enhanced performance to help meet service level objectives. This enables CIOs to better deliver IT as a measurable, accountable service, aligned with business needs and capable of adapting to changing demands, key values in the utility computing model for IT.

VERITAS i3 for Siebel integrates key performance metrics for each tier of the Siebel Smart Web Architecture, from the servers and application to the underlying database, network and storage. Using VERITAS i3 software, Siebel customers can optimize application performance for their unique business environments, taking corrective action for any problems before users experience delays. The product shortens new application deployment or upgrade times by helping organizations tune performance for specific customizations, architectures, and usage patterns in pre-production.

"Companies worldwide use Siebel eBusiness Applications to maintain a competitive edge in a rapidly changing business environment. VERITAS i3 for Siebel helps sustain that edge with optimal application management in complex IT environments," said Bob Maness, senior director, product and solutions marketing, VERITAS Software. "Application-specific performance management is an important building block to enable the value of our utility computing, offering companies a tangible way to make IT more accountable and efficient."

"Siebel Systems has thousands of customers worldwide using our business application software in a wide variety of industries, on various platforms and IT architectures," said David Peranich, vice president and general manager, Alliances, Siebel Systems. "VERITAS i3 for Siebel helps our wide-ranging customers optimize application performance for their specific environments and needs, making the overall solution a more powerful tool for business."

Siebel Systems forms alliances with proven technology leaders to deliver tangible business benefits throughout the enterprise. By choosing Siebel eBusiness Applications and validated partner solutions such as VERITAS i3 for Siebel, Siebel Systems' customers are able to pursue a best-of-class software acquisition strategy. The Siebel Validation Program applies rigorous technical scrutiny to evaluate the integration of third-party solutions with Siebel eBusiness Applications. Integrations that meet the strict testing criteria are validated and documented by the Siebel Validation Program. Validation documentation is available on the Siebel Partner Directory at www.siebel.com/partners/dir/directory.shtm.

About VERITAS Software

With revenues of $1.5 billion in 2002, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. VERITAS Software is the world's leading storage software company, providing data protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery software to 86 percent of the Fortune 500. VERITAS Software's corporate headquarters is located at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA, 94043, tel: 650-527-8000, fax: 650-527-8050, e-mail: vx-sales@veritas.com, Web site: www.veritas.com.

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