AND Joins Siebel Alliance Program


ROTTERDAM - June 22 2004 - AND International Publishers NV (AEX: AND), the leading provider of geointelligence and geotechnologies worldwide, announced that it has joined the Siebel Alliance Program as a Platform Partner.
Siebel Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEBL) is a leading provider of multichannel eBusiness applications software. AND has trained its professionals on Siebel 7 via the Siebel Essentials Course to ensure that its personnel have the expertise necessary to configure the Siebel 7 products and incoporate the customers' unique business processes.
 
Siebel Systems provides organizations with a proven set of 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. The combination of Siebel eBusiness application software and AND's technology will enable companies to transform their businesses into customer-centric operations.
 
"Siebel Systems' commitment to customer statisfaction and market leadership have significantly impacted the way companies do business," said Maarten Oldenhof, CEO of AND. " By joining the Siebel Alliance Program and training our personnel on the latest version of Siebel eBusiness Applications, we can assure our customers to improve their internal processes and increase in customer statisfaction levels.
 
Siebel systems forms alliances with proven platform providers and requires that their personnel train on the latest version of Sieble eBusiness applications. The Siebel Essentials Course trains professionals to identify and perform tasks required for an initial Siebel 7 Application deployment