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CONTACT INFORMATION
Siebel Systems
www.siebel.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ZCE Standardizes on Siebel eEnergy
7 Czech Republic's Leading
Energy Provider Uses Industry-Tailored CRM Solution to Enhance Customer
Care, Increase Customer Loyalty, Maximize Sales Effectiveness, and
Streamline Partner Management
SAN MATEO, CA., June 19, 2002 - Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SEBL), the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications, today
announced that Západočeská Energetika A.S. (ZCE), one of the
Czech Republic's leading energy companies, has standardized on Siebel
eEnergy 7, a comprehensive suite of eBusiness applications that
enables energy service providers to manage sales, marketing, and
customer service across all communication channels and points of
customer contact. ZCE is using the software's prebuilt, tailored
functionality to develop a complete 360-degree understanding of
its customers. It will use this enhanced customer and market insight
to improve its quality of customer care, increase customer loyalty,
maximize sales effectiveness, and streamline partner management.
ZCE is transforming its business operations in anticipation of the
energy market liberalization in the Czech Republic. To strengthen
its position in the electricity market, the company has introduced
a new brand-NOVÁ ENERGIE-to provide customers with high-quality,
price-competitive energy products and services. Through its Siebel
eEnergy 7 implementation, the company united its customer, product,
and billing information to effectively understand and satisfy customer
needs. Prior to its Siebel Systems deployment, ZCE faced a major
challenge in integrating numerous, fragmented customer information
silos.
Working in collaboration with Siebel Consulting Partner and systems
integration specialist Soluziona, ZCE is implementing Siebel eEnergy
7 Sales, Siebel eEnergy 7 Call Center, Siebel eEnergy 7 Service,
Siebel eEnergy 7 PRM, and Siebel eEnergy 7 eCustomer. This powerful
blend of Siebel eEnergy 7 modules enables the company to develop
a single, unified view of its customers across multiple channels,
including the Internet, face-to-face contact, the telephone, and
its network of service delivery partners.
ZCE will use its comprehensive customer insight to effectively manage
customer acquisition, retention, and churn management; streamline
the management of complex sales contracts; and effectively capture,
validate, and manage accurate service orders. The Siebel solution
supports ZCE's complex service account and billing hierarchies,
and it delivers efficient management of and collaboration with the
company's national network of service partners. Siebel Systems'
interactive, zero-footprint Web-based application also accelerates
integration with ZCE's bespoke billing and back office systems to
deliver competitive advantage through rapid service activation at
a dramatically lower risk. Siebel eBusiness Applications will provide
the flexible front office capabilities needed to expand ZCE's product
offerings in the increasingly competitive market.
"To remain competitive in the new open market for energy solutions
in the Czech Republic, ZCE must strive to deliver reliable, first-class
service at a competitive price," says Miroslav Kucera, Director
of Customer Care, ZCE. "Using the industry-tailored functionality
of Siebel eEnergy 7, ZCE is rapidly emerging as an efficient, customer-centric
organization, focused on effective customer acquisition, service,
and retention."
ZCE is one of the Czech Republic's leading energy companies. It
generates, distributes, and markets power supplies to 500,000 customers
in the Plzeň and Karlovy Vary regions of the country and manages
seven percent of the total market for electricity supplies in the
Czech Republic.
About Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc. is the world's leading provider of eBusiness
applications software. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family
of eBusiness applications software, enabling multichannel sales,
marketing, and customer service systems to be deployed over the
Web, in call centers, in the field, through reseller channels, and
across retail and dealer networks. Siebel Systems' sales and service
facilities are located in more than 32 countries. For more information,
please visit Siebel Systems' Web site at www.siebel.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, this press
release contains forward-looking statements that involve risk or
uncertainties. Future operating results of Siebel Systems may differ
from the results discussed or forecasted in the forward-looking
statements due to factors that include, but are not limited to,
risks associated with customer relations, such as the availability
of Siebel Systems' products and services, customer implementation
of products and services, relationships with customers, third-party
vendors and systems integrators, concentration of revenues in a
relatively small number of customers, existence of errors or defects
in products, ability to successfully manage growth, significant
current and expected additional competition and the need to continue
to expand product distribution and services offerings. Further information
on potential factors that could affect the financial results of
Siebel Systems are included in Siebel Systems' Annual Report on
Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its other filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available
at www.sec.gov. Siebel Systems assumes no obligation to update the
information in this press release.
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.
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