Lots of SAP customers are now Oracle customers because they were running Siebel or PeopleSoft.
In a similar vein was Siebel Systems, founded and run by another Oracle alum, Thomas Siebel.
The Siebel Institute, a brewing academy, says only about 5% of its students are women.
Prior to joining EA, Toledano served as chief human resources officer for Siebel Systems.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, tweeted recently that Fujitsu has dumped Siebel in favor of Salesforce.
And Tom Siebel's experience of nearly being killed on safari puts it all in perspective (p. 63).
The company, founded by Tom Siebel, wants to sell software for managing carbon accounting and energy consumption.
Yet DirecTV had to buy more computing power to handle the latest release of Siebel Systems' sales--management software.
Class president Tom Siebel says the holy grail in enterprise software is cross-platform, cross-silo monitoring of company results.
Yet DirecTV had to buy more computing power to handle the latest release of Siebel Systems' sales-management software.
Siebel and Scopus merged operations quite quickly, and the degree to which we complemented one another was astonishing.
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Some of my own bullish calls made in this column--Global Crossing, Worldcom, Siebel Systems--retain only the smell of bull.
"Whichever company solves this problem will be the Cisco of software, " says Siebel.
The SAP subsidiary now offers support to users of software from Siebel, J.
Ellison had been trying in vain to penetrate the lucrative market for sales-force automation software, where Siebel is the undisputed leader.
Nelson's belief in NetSuite's Web approach flies contrary to what Oracle has done in cobbling together software from PeopleSoft, Siebel and others.
Luminaries such as David Letterman, Tom Brokaw, Charles Schwab and Tom Siebel have all bought ranches, and not just for cattle operations.
Tom Siebel, a star Oracle salesman, left in 1990 to found Siebel Systems when Ellison rejected his idea for a sales-force product.
Benioff denies he is part of the feud between Ellison and Siebel.
The SAP subsidiary offers support to users of software from Siebel, J.
It was 1992 and I was selling sales automation systems for Siebel.
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Siebel's expensive software, which manages relationships with customers, typifies what companies are still interested in: products that make them more efficient and competitive.
Vinny Smith started out at Oracle, the baby of billionaire Larry Ellison, working in sales under Tom Siebel, also now a billionaire.
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Now Ellison has enlisted a loyalist to join him in the fight: Marc Benioff, a 13-year Oracle veteran who succeeded Siebel as Ellison's right-hand man.
Even without its just-announced deal for big rival Siebel Systems, Oracle has 8, 500 banking clients, and they include 17 of the top 20 global banks.
"The federal government needs to think long and hard and move slowly, " said Mr. Repko, a former executive with Oracle Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc.
Siebel, the sales-automation software firm, has many terrific things going for it, including CEO Tom Siebel, who may be the best of the 1995-2000 lot.
Web--based software from Salesforce.com competes with Siebel Systems, and every business that "rents" usage from Salesforce avoids having to buy a server to run Siebel's code.
In a similar vein was Siebel Systems (nasdaq: SEBL - news - people ), founded and run by another Oracle alum, Thomas Siebel.
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