Siperian Announces New CDI Offering Leveraging Unisys Managed Service Capabilities; Biotech Company Signs as First Joint Customer

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Siperian Inc., a leading customer data integration and management solution provider, today announced the immediate availability of the Siperian Hub Managed Service Solution, a unique, adaptive customer data integration (CDI) solution deployed as a managed service. Responding to the need for organizations of all sizes to have a clear and unified view of customers across disparate data sources and applications, Siperian has selected Unisys Corporation , a worldwide information technology services and solutions company, to become the company's first managed services partner. For further information, please visit http://www.siperian.com/.

Seeking the simplicity and cost-effective nature of a managed service solution, Siperian and Unisys also announced that a fully integrated biotechnology company has become the first joint customer to take advantage of the new Siperian Hub Managed Service Solution. Leveraging Siperian Hub Managed Service Solution, this biotech customer will gain greater visibility into interactions with customers of its therapies for infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Under the agreement, Unisys will configure, implement and operate the Siperian Hub Managed Service Solution -- a CDI solution designed to help companies effectively deliver unified, accurate customer views across disparate data sources to all business users and systems.

"Increased insight into a customer's interactions, preferences and value to an organization will allow our mutual customers to both manage costs more efficiently and identify revenue enhancement opportunities," said Christopher Leibfreid, director, Business Intelligence, Unisys. "By leveraging all the functionality of Siperian's CDI Hub with the managed services, technology and business process outsourcing capabilities provided by Unisys, our mutual customers can implement a robust CDI strategy without the challenge of staffing, supporting and managing an enterprise solution."

The Siperian Hub Managed Service Solution is a unique, adaptive CDI solution deployed as a managed service. It delivers unified customer views across disparate data sources and applications to business users. Organizations are able to create more efficient and profitable customer relationships, reduce operations costs and increase the accuracy of regulatory compliance by creating a "system of record" for customer relationship and reference data that is strewn across multiple applications and data sources.

"Having been recognized as one of the leading providers of CDI hubs, we are extremely excited to be the first customer data integration solutions provider to offer a managed service CDI solution," said Darlene Mann, chief executive officer, Siperian. "We are thrilled to partner with Unisys and provide our mutual clients, regardless of their size, with a leading CDI solution that leverages our rich industry experience and our highly adaptive customer transaction hub -- all at an affordable price point. Now, organizations can leverage all the benefits of an extensive CDI platform without the need to manage and support the solution in-house."

About Siperian

Siperian, Inc. is a leading provider of a comprehensive customer data integration (CDI) and management platform. With its adaptive, neutral approach, the company's customer transaction hub, Siperian Hub(TM), delivers unified, accurate customer views across disparate data sources to all business users and systems; that in turn drive real-time business actions within existing operational processes. As a highly manageable and extensible multi-product platform, Siperian Hub enables enterprises to rapidly configure the solution to changing business conditions; resulting in more efficient and profitable customer interactions, reduced customer operations costs and increased accuracy of regulatory compliance. With a rich set of data integration services and support for service-oriented architecture, Siperian Hub cost-effectively delivers trustworthy customer data for direct business use or integration to other systems. Rated as a visionary vendor in the CDI space by Gartner, Siperian has customers across many verticals including Pharmaceutical, High-Tech, Financial Services, Media and Publishing, etc. For further information, visit us on the Web at http://www.siperian.com/ or call 1-866-SIPERIAN (1-866-747-3742).

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