Egenera Successfully Integrates Egenera BladeFrame System with Siebel Customer-Facing Solutions
Marlboro, Mass.—September 20, 2005—Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, today announced that the integration between its Egenera® BladeFrame® system running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 and Siebel business applications version 7.7 has been successfully validated by Siebel Systems Inc. With this validation, customers of Siebel Systems and Egenera can now streamline management of the application stack from CRM to database, while lowering costs and improving agility.
"Siebel Systems' CRM expertise and market leadership, as well as its commitment to customer satisfaction, have significantly impacted the way companies do business," said Mike Thompson, chief operating officer, Egenera. "We believe that the Egenera BladeFrame system's utility computing capabilities will further benefit Siebel Systems' customers through the ability to easily increase or decrease the processing capacity dedicated to each Siebel application, helping to ensure performance while optimizing utilization."
"The integration of Siebel business applications with the Egenera BladeFrame system gives our customers a solution for building dynamic customer relationships more efficiently," said Butch Winters, vice president and general manager of global alliances, Siebel Systems. "This validation gives Siebel customers enhanced confidence in the Egenera BladeFrame."
The Egenera BladeFrame system provides an integrated platform for utility computing, a model in which computing resources are dynamically allocated to applications on an as-needed basis. As such, the Egenera BladeFrame simplifies datacenter infrastructure and reduces operational complexity to support a highly responsive business. Through secure resource sharing, the Egenera BladeFrame enables customers to scale applications, increase performance, virtually provision workloads, and attach to networks and storage more efficiently.
Siebel Systems forms alliances with proven technology leaders to deliver tangible business benefits throughout the enterprise. By choosing Siebel business applications and validated partner solutions, Siebel Systems' customers can 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 business 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.
Press Contacts
Nancy Keswani
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nkeswani@egenera.com
Gillian Farquhar
Greenough Communications
617-275-6514
gillian@greenoughcom.com
Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame product family simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. More information is available at www.egenera.com.
Egenera, Egenera stylized logos and BladeFrame are registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Siebel is a trademark of Siebel Systems, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.
