verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message siebel crm systems industry software & programming successor oracle founded 1993 defunct 2006 headquarters san mateo california united states key people thomas siebel ceo patricia house vp marketing products crm application revenue 1.340 bln 2004 operating income 0.129 bln 2004 net income 0.111 bln 2004 number of employees 5 036 2005 website www.oracle.com siebel siebel crm systems inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design development marketing and support of customer relationship management crm applications . the company was founded by thomas siebel and patricia house in 1993 . at first known mainly for its sales force automation products the company expanded into the broader crm market . by the late 1990s siebel systems was the dominant crm vendor peaking at 45 % market share in 2002 . 1 on september 12 2005 oracle corporation announced it had agreed to buy siebel systems for 5.8 billion . 2 3 siebel is now a brand name owned by oracle corporation . the crm software development environment is known as siebel developer and those skilled in such are known as siebel consultants . contents 1 history 2 competition 3 key dates 4 references 5 external links history edit siebel systems inc. began in sales force automation software then expanded into marketing and customer service applications including crm . from the time it was founded in 1993 the company grew quickly . benefiting from the explosive growth of the crm market in the late 1990s siebel systems was named the fastest growing company in the united states in 1999 by fortune magazine . with the growth of electronic commerce siebel formed strategic alliances and made several acquisitions to provide e business solutions for crm and related areas . one reason for siebel s success was its ability to form alliances ; as of late 2000 the company had more than 700 alliance partners . competition edit principal competitors included oracle corporation now siebel s owner sap america inc. vantive corporation subsidiary of peoplesoft inc. now owned by oracle sage group clarify corporation subsidiary of amdocs sas institute inc. epiphany inc. broadbase software inc salesforce.com microsoft dynamics sugarcrm . siebel systems competed directly with oracle and sap . these competing software suites gradually developed hr financial and erp packages that were readily integrated and thus did not require specialists to deploy citation needed enabling them to steadily erode siebel s market share . key dates edit 1993 siebel systems inc. is founded by thomas siebel and patricia house . 1995 siebel delivers siebel sales enterprise software for sales force automation . 1995 siebel 2.0 release end of 1995 siebel customer relationship management crm siebel sales enterprise 1996 siebel becomes a publicly traded company . 1997 siebel 3.0 release feb 1997 1998 siebel 98 1999 siebel 99 2000 siebel 6 also known as siebel 2000 2000 revenue surpasses the 1 billion mark . 2001 siebel 7.0 released 2001 was the first web based version 2002 siebel 7.5 released in 2002 2004 siebel 7.7 released in 2004 2005 siebel 7.8 released in 2005 2006 oracle acquires siebel systems . 2007 oracle siebel 8.0 released in 2007 2007 oracle business intelligence enterprise edition plus released 2007 2007 oracle business intelligence applications formerly siebel analytics released 2007 2008 oracle siebel 8.1 released in 2008 2011 oracle siebel 8.2 released in 2011 oracle sales cloud oracle fusion crm oracle crm on demand 2015 oracle siebel 15.0 released 11 may 2015 2016 oracle siebel 16.0 released 29 apr 2016 references edit gilbert alorie september 27 2002 . rivals vie for siebel s customer spoils . cnet news.com . archived from the original on march 3 2007 . retrieved may 10 2007 . oracle completes acquisition of siebel oracle press release kawamoto dawn june 21 2006 . oracle to swallow siebel for 5.8 billion . cnet . retrieved may 7 2007 . external links edit http www.oracle.com us products applications siebel overview index.html siebel developer s reference v t e oracle corporation corporate directors jeffrey berg h. raymond bingham michael boskin safra a. catz larry ellison h ctor garc a molina joseph grundfest jeffrey o. henley mark hurd jack f. kemp donald l. lucas naomi o. seligman acquisitions list sun peoplesoft hyperion siebel bea jd edwards rightnow virtual iron timesten retek sunopsis netsuite dbms oracle database mysql innodb berkeley db timesten rdb essbase programming languages java pl sql ide jdeveloper forms netbeans apex sql developer solaris studio middleware fusion middleware webcenter soa suite weblogic server coherence tuxedo glassfish operating systems oracle linux oracle solaris computer hardware sun fire sparc t series enterprise storagetek computer appliances oracle exadata oracle exalogic oracle exalytics big data appliance education and recognition oracle certification program category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title siebel systems & oldid 732461282 categories companies based in redwood shores californiasoftware companies based in californiaoracle acquisitionscrm software companiescompanies established in 1977hidden categories articles needing additional references from june 2008all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschespa olitalianopolskiportugu s srpskohrvatski edit links this page was last modified on 1 august 2016 at 03 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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