The Cisco Lean Retail Oracle Siebel solution provides best practices and implementation guidance that optimizes application availability, performance, and security while lowering application ownership costs. Cisco's Lean Retail provides accelerated application performance and faster access to information. Data center-based applications and hosted managed services can have their performance accelerated to LAN-like speeds. Oracle's Siebel 8 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) enables organizations to transform the customer experience by managing sales, marketing, and customer service across all communication channels and points of customer contact.