Awards and Recognition

Informatica Cloud and Informatica Data Services (IDS) have been named finalists in the Software & Information Industry Association's 27th Annual CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Infrastructure and Best Integration Solution, respectively. In the annual industry peer-review awards, Informatica has been recognized for its outstanding achievement, innovation and vision in the software and information industry. Winners of the CODiE Awards will be recognized at a special event on May 10, 2012, during the All About the Cloud conference in San Francisco. For 27 years, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose – to showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement.

Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Informatica Dynamic Data Maskingthe Most Innovative Security (Software) Product of the Year in the 2012 Global Excellence Awards. Informatica Dynamic Data Masking, the industry's first dynamic data masking solution and a component of the Informatica Platform, was selected for its innovation and excellence in enabling organizations to meet compliance requirements, protect personal and sensitive information and reduce the risk of a data breach.

The Informatica Cloud Customer Support team was named a Bronze Winner for the 2012 Front-Line Customer Support Team of the Year – Computer Hardware, Software, or Services, in the sixth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Informatica Cloud Customer Support was given this honor as a result of its unique ability to successfully blend direct high-touch support and customer success management.

The awards honor organizations that display outstanding performance in the workplace. The awards give customer service and sales professionals the opportunity to be recognized for the results they achieve every day for their customers. More than 1,000 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted to this year's competition.

Informatica Dynamic Data Masking products dynamically mask sensitive production data from unauthorized access and permanently and irreversibly mask nonproduction data. IT organizations can comply with data privacy regulations and organization-wide data privacy mandates and can reduce the risk of a data breach.

Informatica has been named a finalist in two categories of the awards:

• Best Security Solution, financial services
• Information Security Product of the Year

Informatica Dynamic Data Masking was named a finalist in two categories in the 8th annual awards:

• Most Innovative Security Product (Software) of the Year
• Database Security, Data Leakage - Protection / Extrusion Prevention

These global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technology.

Informatica was selected as the winner of the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Award for Collaborative Revenue Contribution for the company's excellence in helping Teradata expand its market coverage. Informatica was recognized as the ISV partner who influenced the largest year-over-year incremental revenue growth for Teradata, expanding its presence in over 20 accounts.

Now in its fourth year, the Teradata Epic Awards program recognizes extraordinary innovations from Teradata customers and partners that use data to create, capture and return equity to their organizations. Their solutions provide business insights and create competitive advantage.

Ron Papas, general manager, Informatica Cloud, has won the 2011 Innovator Award in the Cloud Computing and E-Commerce category at the 53rd Annual David Packard Medal of Achievement and Innovator Awards. Mr. Papas was selected for his leadership in developing and delivering Informatica Cloud, an award-winning, multi-tenant, cloud-based data integration service, which now processes over 20 billion transactions and runs over three million integration jobs per month.

Since 1959, TechAmerica has awarded the David Packard Medal of Achievement, their highest award, to honor significant lifetime contributors and pioneers of the high-tech industry. To honor current leaders for their contributions to the technology industry, TechAmerica added the Innovator Awards.

This award recognizes initiatives that bring constructive change and provide quantifiable business value in organizations working to manage information as an asset. The winning submissions demonstrated a unique combination of circumstances, ideas and technology that successfully and creatively addressed a business pain point.

Station Casinos is using the Informatica Platform to integrate data from customers, gaming and financial metrics, based on a Teradata data warehouse and reporting from Cognos. The Informatica solution pulls information from as many as 500 heterogeneous legacy sources, without developing new data access programs or impacting mission-critical systems. The resulting information provides deeper, diverse marketing and sales information to provide richer, more targeted customer experiences.

According to Julie Langenkamp editor-in-chief, Information Management, "This is a powerful solution, incorporating data integration and data quality to yield an enterprise-wide information supply chain."

Earl Fry has been named a finalist in the 2011 Large Public Company (Above $500 million annual revenue)

The top finance executives in Silicon Valley were honored at the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's annual CFO of the Year awards Thursday night.

Earl Fry has won the Leadership award for Chief Financial Officer in the 2011 Ventana Research Leadership Awards for his sponsorship and leadership around the Informatica Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Investor Relations tracking system. Leveraging technology from Ipreo, Informatica implemented the solution to enable the company to identify and track interactions with investors and profile and analyze its investor base. Consequently, executive and investor relations teams have a far more efficient process for sharing information, have developed better insights and have been able to translate those insights into a more diversified shareholder base.

The Ventana Research Leadership Awards recognize the technology vendors and their customers that have most effectively achieved success through using people, processes, information and technology and applying best practices within specific business and technology categories.

Tony Young has won the Leadership award for IT Performance Management in the 2011 Ventana Research Leadership Awards for spearheading a master data management (MDM) initiative. Leveraging Delphix technology, the initiative has enabled Informatica to correlate and synchronize customer data in order to improve customer service and help sales create more value out of customer interactions. The resulting 360-degree view of customer and prospect interactions has led to more accurate lead routing, more targeted and successful marketing efforts and increased revenues.

The Ventana Research Leadership Awards recognize the technology vendors and their customers that have most effectively achieved success through using people, processes, information and technology and applying best practices within specific business and technology categories.

Westpac New Zealand Life Limited, a leading insurer, has won two awards in the 2011 Ventana Research Leadership Awards. Westpac was recognized for:

• Leadership in Big Data, and
• Overall Information Technology

Westpac New Zealand Life has standardized on the Informatica Platform to help power strategic initiatives around customer centricity and big data.

The Ventana Research Leadership Awards recognize the technology vendors and their customers that have most effectively achieved success through using people, processes, information and technology and applying best practices within specific business and technology categories.

Utah Department of Health was recognized for Leadership in Information Management in the 2011 Ventana Research Leadership Awards.

Utah Department of Health, with its All Payer Claims Database program to track the cost and quality of medical care, created a seamless data collection/access/analysis environment around healthcare data in the entire state of Utah. The Informatica Platform was used to design and power the linking elements of the database, including ensuring the quality of the data and protecting patient privacy.

The Ventana Research Leadership Awards recognize the technology vendors and their customers that have most effectively achieved success through using people, processes, information and technology and applying best practices within specific business and technology categories.

Informatica has been listed on the Forbes' 100 Best Small Companies in America. The annual rankings are based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity during the past 12 months and over five years. Forbes also factors in stock performance versus each company's peer group. Of the 100 Best Small Companies in America, Informatica ranked in the number 66 spot. The Forbes Best Small Companies must generate annual revenue under $1 billion. Forbes notes in the rankings that, "Even in the toughest of times, the best companies—small and large—find a way."

In the 10th annual CRM Market Leaders Awards, Informatica has been recognized for its exemplary company direction and depth of functionality.

Beating out industry competition, "Informatica's data quality solution is often on the short list with our clients, even if they are not an Informatica shop," Ray Wang, Constellation Research says. That's a pretty powerful statement that sums up Informatica's victory for the second consecutive year. In fact, in 2009, an analyst proclaimed that the company "will be hands-down [the one] to beat" in a year or two. Well, it's now been two years and it looks like Informatica doesn't plan to go anywhere soon. Scoring an impressive 4.3 for both company direction and depth of functionality and a 4.0 for customer satisfaction, Informatica was the clear winner in the data quality category this year. "I really like what Informatica is doing," Michael Fauscette, group vice president of software business solutions at IDC says. "Their developments are very interesting tools, and in some areas they might be a little ahead."

Informatica customer Station Casinos has won the TDWI Best Practices Award for Right-Time BI. The awards are designed to identify and honor companies that have demonstrated excellence in developing, deploying, and maintaining Business Intelligence and DW applications. The nominated solutions were evaluated based on business impact, maturity, innovation, and relevance.

Station Casinos wanted a better understanding of customer activities and preferences and the ability to offer personalized incentives to increase its customer base. Station Casinos undertook an initiative to gather data from its 18 resorts and casinos and provide a 360-degree, real-time view of customer activities. The data would include all customer "touch points," including financial, gaming, hotel, food and beverage, and other data to understand customer trends, usage patterns, and the overall casino experience.

To get this level of detailed information, Station Casinos deployed the Informatica Platform, which provides the ability to access, clean, and deliver critical data in real time, including integrated customer, gaming, and finance information from as many as 500 heterogeneous sources and 9.2 million customer records.

Stephanie Wakefield, Vice President, Investor Relations was named the Winner for the 2011 Communications, Investor Relations, or PR Executive of the Year . Ms. Wakefield has helped translate Informatica's corporate performance into a premium valuation and has been a key driver in Informatica maintaining its high corporate governance ratings as well as retaining and motivating its professional workforce. Through the Stevie Awards Informatica executives have been recognized for their positive contributions and achievements of excellence to the business world.

Chris Boorman, Chief Marketing Office and SVP Education and Enablement was named a Distinguished Honoree for the 2011 Marketing Executive of the Year. Mr. Boorman has instituted pioneering programs that have more closely bound Informatica Marketing to Sales, the Informatica website to CRM and Informatica to its customers via online communities and social media marketing. Through the Stevie Awards Informatica executives have been recognized for their positive contributions and achievements of excellence to the business world.

Chris Boorman, Chief Marketing Office and SVP Education and Enablement was named the Winner for the 2011 Marketing Executive of the Year. Mr. Boorman has instituted pioneering programs that have more closely bound Informatica Marketing to Sales, the Informatica website to CRM and Informatica to its customers via online communities and social media marketing. Through the Stevie Awards Informatica executives have been recognized for their positive contributions and achievements of excellence to the business world.

Stephanie Wakefield, Vice President, Investor Relations was named the Winner for the 2011 Communications, Investor Relations, or PR Executive of the Year . Ms. Wakefield has helped translate Informatica's corporate performance into a premium valuation and has been a key driver in Informatica maintaining its high corporate governance ratings as well as retaining and motivating its professional workforce. Through the Stevie Awards Informatica executives have been recognized for their positive contributions and achievements of excellence to the business world.

Tony Young, CIO, was recognized as a Distinguished Honoree in the 2011 International Business Award for Information Technology Executive of the Year. Mr. Young has consistently put IT innovation at the service of the business. He runs a global IT organization where a significant amount of the budget goes to innovation, and where the team functions not just as IT, but also as an extension of R&D, Marketing and Sales - partnering with the business is part of daily life for this team.

The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business. Recipients of International Business Awards trophies were selected from more than 3,000 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 40 nations.

Informatica has been recognized as a winner in the 24th annual CIO 100 Awards. The Awards celebrates 100 organizations (and the people within them) that are using information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. Winners show how IT organizations can transform business with technology innovations that propel the enterprise toward a more profitable future.

Informatica Cloud has been selected as the Winner in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 26th Annual CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Management Solution. In the industry's only peer-review awards, Informatica has been recognized for its outstanding achievement, innovation and vision in the software and information industry.

"Now in its 26th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries. In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers. SIIA warmly congratulates all of the winners and nominees of the CODiE Awards, whose innovation is essential for continuing America's leadership in the global knowledge economy." -- Ken Wasch, SIIA President

Informatica and its executives have been recognized for their positive contributions and achievements of excellence to the business world. The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing business awards program in the United States.

In the 2011 American Business Awards:

• Chris Boorman, Chief Marketing Office and SVP Education and Enablement was named a Finalist for Marketing Executive of the Year
• Tony Young, Chief Information Officer was named a Finalist for Information Technology Executive of the Year
• Stephanie Wakefield, Vice President, Investor Relations was named a Finalist for Communications, Investor Relations, or PR Executive of the Year

In its second annual list, Information Management has shared its picks for the best and brightest managers in IT. These are the best examples of leadership and names to watch in information management in the coming year. These four "movers and shakers" deserve special mention as they have one thing in common - being extensive users of data integration and data quality Informatica technology.

Informatica customers recognized:

• Chuck Backus, VP, Enterprise Data, LexisNexis
• Karen O'Dell, BI Product Director and Director of Business Systems, Station Casinos
• Timothy Leonard, VP and Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Xpress Inc
• Wes Flores, Director of IT, Verizon

Informatica customer, Utah Department of Health, has been recognized as a Laureate in the 2011 Computerworld Honors Program for its All Payer Claims Database. The Program recognizes those organizations which create and use information technology to promote and advance the public welfare, benefit society and change the world for the better.

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Institute has named Chris Boorman one of five finalists for this year's award. The CMO Institute created the award to recognize Chief Marketing Officers who demonstrated outstanding leadership across various disciplines of the marketing field during the prior year. This year's finalists include marketers that overcame difficult economic headwinds to produce impressive results. Nominees were evaluated across several categories of performance, including: market orientation and customer intimacy, accountability for results, commitment to innovation, and overall contribution to the success of their company.

Tony Young, Informatica CIO, has been named one of three finalists in the MIT 4th Annual CIO Award for Innovation Leadership. The award honors Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who lead their organizations to pursue innovative use of Information Technology (IT) and business processes to deliver business value. Key characteristics of CIO innovation leadership include:

• Trusted Advisor—to the CEO, CFO, and other senior executives.
• Business Leader—intimately aware of business challenges, competitive landscape, and the organization's core strengths.
• Strong Communicator—articulates a vision for IT-enabled innovation and works across the organization and with external stakeholders to gain support for this vision.
• Proven IT Manager—delivers core IT services, using internal staff and external services, within budget and staff constraints.

"The winning entry will demonstrate how the use of technology has improved processes, speeded up response times, enhanced capacity and helped further the chances of future business success." LMAX launched a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in 2010 with Informatica's Ultra Messaging software at its core. The new trading platform provides an entirely new way for retail investors to trade contracts for difference (CFDs) and Foreign Exchange.

The FST Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK and EMEA financial services sectors. These prestigious awards are designed to emphasize the importance of IT as a key driver in business and to acknowledge and reward IT specialists working within the sector.

Informatica Cloud has been named a Finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 26th Annual CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Management Solution. In the annual industry peer-review awards, Informatica has been recognized for its outstanding achievement, innovation and vision in the software and information industry. Winners of the CODiE Awards will be recognized at a special event during the 2011 All About the Cloud conference, which will be held May 23-26 in San Francisco. For 25 years, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose – to showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement.

Informatica Cloud has been named a Finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 26th Annual CODiE Awards for Best Integration Solution. In the annual industry peer-review awards, Informatica has been recognized for its outstanding achievement, innovation and vision in the software and information industry. Winners of the CODiE Awards will be recognized at a special event during the 2011 All About the Cloud conference, which will be held May 23-26 in San Francisco. For 25 years, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose – to showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement.

Informatica has won an award in the seventh annual ERE Recruiting Excellence Awards for Best Strategic Use of Technology. The awards recognize the best firms and their best practices in talent management.

Informatica was named a Finalist in the Innovation in Customer Service category in the fifth annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The awards honor organizations that display outstanding performance in the workplace. The awards give customer service and sales professionals the opportunity to be recognized for the results they achieve every day for their customers. More than 800 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted to this year's competition.

Informatica is dedicated to helping customers accelerate technology innovation by delivering the strongest data integration services and solutions in the market.

ING - Data Management technology management centre project

The Data Management technology management centre is one of the success stories within the regional transformation programme that ING Insurance Central and Rest of Europe established to implement technology solutions to support sustainable growth. The DM TMC has pioneered data integration, reusability and cost effectiveness on a European regional scale.

The FST Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK and EMEA financial services sectors. These prestigious awards are designed to emphasise the importance of IT as a key driver in business and to acknowledge and reward IT specialists working within the sector.

J.P. Morgan - Finance Reconciliation Engine (FiRE)

J.P. Morgan recognized the challenges and limitations of trade vs. ledger reconciliations and needed to design a new system to enable shorter batch processing windows, performance enhancements and resiliency. This new platform, which was designed and implemented with Informatica, achieved these goals, exceeding performance requirements and delivering significant cost savings.

The FST Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK and EMEA financial services sectors. These prestigious awards are designed to emphasize the importance of IT as a key driver in business and to acknowledge and reward IT specialists working within the sector.

LMAX

In October 2010, LMAX launched a new multilateral trading facility (MTF). This unique trading platform provides an entirely new way for retail investors to trade contracts for difference (CFDs) and Foreign Exchange. Informatica's Ultra Messaging product is the ultra low-latency messaging solution used throughout LMAX's MTF trading venue.

The FST Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK and EMEA financial services sectors. These prestigious awards are designed to emphasize the importance of IT as a key driver in business and to acknowledge and reward IT specialists working within the sector.

Informatica chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Sohaib Abbasi, was named one of the three top performing software company CEOs according to buy-side analysts, tying for number two CEO, Software.

Earl Fry, Informatica chief financial officer (CFO), chief accounting officer and executive vice president, Global Customer Support has won the coveted title of Best CFO, Software for the second year in a row in Institutional Investor's annual survey of financial analysts. Fry was rated number one by both buy- and sell-side analysts.

Stephanie Wakefield, vice president of Investor Relations, was named number two IR Professional, Software by buy-side analysts, who also rated Informatica number two in IR performance among public software companies.

The rankings reflect the opinions of nearly 1,300 buy- and sell-side analysts and investment professionals at more than 550 firms.

Informatica Cloud was recognized for the third year in a row with a customer choice award for its product excellence and the highest levels of customer satisfaction amongst the data integration vendor community. Informatica received the Data Integration award for Informatica Cloud, its multitenant cloud service that automates Salesforce integration between other cloud-based as well as on-premise applications, databases and files.

"The AppExchange is the marketplace for salesforce.com customers to find innovative applications designed to extend the benefits of cloud computing throughout their organizations. Informatica Cloud can help our customers realize tremendous success as we make the shift to cloud 2 and ensure that social, mobile and real-time cloud capabilities are integrated with the rest of the enterprise. We congratulate Informatica for its customer success and achievement as the top-ranked Data Integration solution on AppExchange in 2010."
-- Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer at salesforce.com

Best Companies’ vision is to identify the drivers of sustainable business performance. Research shows that the key is ‘Workplace Engagement’. Best Companies Accreditation scheme recognises those organisations that have achieved high levels of ‘Workplace Engagement’.

Best Companies Accreditation follows the elite ‘Michelin style’ star rating system for organisations that demonstrate high levels of employee engagement. Based on staff feedback, organisations receive a Best Companies index score which will determine their star rating compared to a fixed standard.

The program is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. It recognizes SaaS vendors that are producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Informatica customers BDB Payroll Service, Toshiba America Business Solutions and Bay & Bay Transportation were all named as companies receiving measurable business benefits from using Informatica.

Smith & Nephew launched an enterprise data governance initiative with the goals of maximizing supply chain efficiency, improving relationships with health care professionals and trading partners and driving accurate enterprise-wide reporting through improving and ensuring the quality of its data.

Informatica helped Smith & Nephew revolutionize the way the company thinks about data and how to apply it for competitive advantage. From concept to ROI, the implementation took less than 12 months.

This award recognizes initiatives that bring constructive change and provide quantifiable business value in organizations working to manage information as an asset. Winning submissions demonstrated a unique combination of circumstances, ideas and technology or a creative solution that successfully addressed a business pain point, including creativity, their creation of competitive advantage or their positive impact on the bottom line.

U.S. Xpress needed to better manage vehicle idle time across a fleet of trucks, leading to improved customer service and millions of dollars in savings. U.S. Xpress found some data that had not been touched for seven years. The data governance solution, based on the Informatica Platform allows U.S. Xpress to profile the data, determine whether it is still relevant and then drop it into the company's master data management system. Implementation only took four and a half months. Now armed with visibility into how much time drivers were idling, U.S. Xpress cut the percentage of time its trucks stand idle from the high eighties to just over 50 percent. As a result, U.S. Xpress has been able to dramatically reduce vehicle idle time, ultimately saving the company millions of dollars annually including savings on fuel — equivalent to a return on investment in only three months.

This award recognizes initiatives that bring constructive change and provide quantifiable business value in organizations working to manage information as an asset. Winning submissions demonstrated a unique combination of circumstances, ideas and technology or a creative solution that successfully addressed a business pain point, including creativity, their creation of competitive advantage or their positive impact on the bottom line.

The Strategic 100 by MIS Asia highlights the 100 most strategically important vendors in the Asia Pacific region. It provides IT decision-makers with an unbiased and valuable reference tool, highlighting the vendor organisations they need to know about and watch.

MIS Asia appointed a total of 30 independent judges - 10 each from Asia, Australia and New Zealand. These IT veterans are CIOs, IT commentators, analysts and academics who have provided their expert and independent 'arms length' appraisal of the top 100 vendors. The Strategic 100 judging panel selected top vendor organizations based on five criteria: Industry leadership; products and services innovation; strategic roles in the global enterprise IT market; contribution to IT industry development, and financial performance in the past year.

MIS Australia publishes the annual MIS Strategic 100 which profiles the 100 most strategically relevant vendor organisations for CIOs. Broken into three sections – Global, Local and Rising Stars – the vendors are selected by a panel of CIOs and independent industry experts, with the profiles written by the MIS editorial team. "The 75 companies profiled in the following pages are ones CIOs cannot afford to ignore. They are the big players, that influence buying patterns around Australia and the rest of the world. They will be in CIOs' minds whenever they have potential purchasing decisions to make, no matter what their expertise. To qualify for the list, companies must have a significant presence in Australia and generate a large portion of their revenue from outside their domestic markets. Those selected were chosen by a panel of 30 judges from across the Asia-Pacific region."

Smith & Nephew was recognized for their enterprise data governance initiative which is empowering their Global Business Units (GBUs) to measure, monitor, and improve data quality. The GBUs now all share accurate, trusted information. To this end, data quality accountability and dashboard-driven visibility has been placed in the hands of Smith & Nephew's data owners and users, thus driving responsibility for data quality closer to the source of data. "Smith & Nephew's enterprise data governance initiative is impressive, and Informatica data integration technologies helped achieve business process efficiency while maximizing business performance."

BeyeNETWORK's winning entries featured powerful deployments of software technology showing the breadth of success that can be achieved with thoughtful applications of a variety of software solutions from mature products to disruptive technologies.

HealthNow is one of New York State's leading healthcare companies. HealthNow is leveraging the Informatica Platform to create a single common framework using enterprise data services to power enterprise-wide data access and management of healthcare data. The initiative has transformed HealthNow, enabling the organization to rapidly deliver a single, trusted view of data across diverse data sources, empowering business users to quickly access plan rate and claims information from a single service and shortening time to access new critical data for pricing and risk analysis from months to days. The Ventana Leadership Awards recognize organizations that most effectively deliver business success using people, process, information and technology best practices.

Station Casinos is the premier provider of gaming and entertainment for residents of Las Vegas. Station Casinos uses the Informatica Platform on Teradata to help drive a rewarding guest experience and build share of market. The solution integrates information from as many as 500 heterogeneous sources (gaming, lodging, food and beverage, etc.) and transforms the data for use in the data warehouse to power 360 degree customer views in real time. These views can then be leveraged to extend personalized real-time offers to Station Casinos' patrons. The Ventana Leadership Awards recognize organizations that most effectively deliver business success using people, process, information and technology best practices.

U.S. Xpress is a privately owned truckload carrier. U.S. Xpress is leveraging the Informatica Platform to establish pervasive data quality as a cornerstone to providing the business with critical operational and executive decision-making information. An immediate outcome has been a dramatic reduction in truck idle time, saving the company millions of dollars annually, while data profiling of the truck maintenance system  has led to improvements in system stability that are saving additional costs annually. The Ventana Leadership Awards recognize organizations that most effectively deliver business success using people, process, information and technology best practices.

Cabela's Inc. was recognized for its multi-channel data warehouse initiative and the creation of an analytical information framework that has improved advertising effectiveness, inventory and margin strategies. Cabela's initiated a sweep of its multi-channel databases to create a single version of all customer, sales, product, marketing and inventory data. The objective was aimed at process improvement. These efforts have improved the effectiveness of its advertising efforts, inventory position and margin strategies. More importantly, Cabela's has built an information framework that has been a valuable tool to the enterprise providing quantitative insights throughout the organization. The awards were sponsored by Teradata.

Informatica has been named Company of the Year - North America in the InterContinental Finance Magazine's Global 2010 Awards

Informatica is considered to have performed to exceptional levels during one of the most difficult economic periods ever experienced.

With a specific focus on geographical expertise, the awards are presented globally to those firms that have been voted by the readership for demonstrating a high degree of ability across a number of international regions.

Informatica was awarded "Company of the Year" by the Entrepreneurs Foundation at their 11th annual Powered by EF reception and recognition event. The Entrepreneurs Foundation selected Informatica because of the company's commitment to giving back to the community. The Company of the Year award is given to the organization that, through its activities and partnerships during the previous calendar year, clearly demonstrates its commitment to philanthropic and community involvement programs as part of its core business values.

Informatica was named a "Market Winner" in the ninth annual 2010 CRM Magazine Market Awards in the Data Quality category. CRM Magazine honors the vendors, consultants and end-user companies that focus on customer relationships and customer experience through the sophisticated integration of people, processes and technologies.

"In a period marked by economic and sustainability concerns, innovation and agility are the factors that separate the leaders from the laggards," according to CRM Magazine editors.

Judging took place during an extensive three-month process and a proprietary rating formula that involves industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

Informatica has been named to the Top 10 Large Workplaces in the Bay Area. Results were compiled from a confidential comprehensive survey of Bay Area companies using employees' responses to rate area firms. Informatica employees cited strong ethical management, a collaborative company culture and many opportunities for career growth as some of the reasons for working at the company. As part of the program 16,557 employees in Bay Area were surveyed

Sohaib Abbasi, Informatica chairman and chief executive officer, has been recognized as Chairman of the Year at the 8th Annual American Business Awards with a Stevie. These Stevie Awards recognize the leadership achievements and positive contributions of individuals and companies worldwide. Abbasi was selected from more than 2,700 executives in this year's competition.

"Informatica attained record revenues for six consecutive years through exceptional operational discipline.  Much of this success is due to Sohaib's leadership and vision," said Chuck Robel, Lead Independent Director, Board of Directors, Informatica. "Sohaib set a clear vision, focused growth strategy and aggressive targets.  The Informatica team attained record results in good economic times as well as during the recession. Informatica's track record of innovation advanced the company as a leader and a pioneer in multiple technology categories."

Informatica and its executives have been recognized for their positive contributions and achievements of excellence to the business world. The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing business awards program in the United States.

In the 2010 American Business Awards:

• Chris Boorman, Chief Marketing Officer was named a Finalist for Marketing Executive of the Year
• Stephanie Wakefield, Vice President, Investor Relations was named a Finalist for Communications, Investor Relations, or PR Executive of the Year
• The Global Launch of Informatica 9 was named a Finalist for Best New Product Introduction Event

The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business. Informatica executives have been honored for their achievements and positive contributions to the business world. Honorees were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 40 countries. Informatica honorees include:

• Sohaib Abbasi, Chairman and CEO for Chairman of the Year
• Chris Boorman, Chief Marketing Officer for Marketing Executive of the Year
• Jo Stoner, Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Human Resources Executive of the Year
• Stephanie Wakefield, Vice President, Investor Relations for Communications, Executive of the Year
• Informatica 9 for Best New Product or Service of the Year, Computer Software, New Version

Informatica 9 has been named a finalist in the Software Category of the 2010 American Technology Awards. The awards given for excellence in technology, embody the spirit and vision of Frederick Terman, who is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley. Nominations for The American Technology Awards "The Termans" are vetted by industry experts and technology companies.

Informatica CFO Earl Fry, was recognized as Institutional Investor 2010 "Best CFO", Software All-America Executive Team". Fry was awarded the accolade following a survey of 570 sell-side analysts at nearly 100 securities firms and more than 780 buy-side investment professionals at 425 institutions.

Informatica customer Station Casinos was awarded a Laureate medal at the 2010 Computerworld Honors Program. Station Casinos was also recognized as one of the top five Finalists in the Media, Arts and Entertainment category. Station Casinos and other Laureates are seen as pioneers and principals of the world's foremost information technology companies. The program aims to recognize and document the achievements of the people, organizations and institutions around the world, whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change.

Other Informatica customers that received Laureate medals include: Smith & Nephew, Zyme Solutions and Rochester Institute of Technology.

For 2010, Information Management commissioned a ranking of the top 50 revenue-producing product vendors in information management - those that supply the tools and knowledge used by organizations to collect, distribute, analyze and report on data. The list looks at the 2009 revenue and profit of the largest publicly held information management companies.

The awards recognize EMC Velocity Tech & ISV Partners for developing repeatable, referenceable solutions built on or using EMC Platforms. Informatica was distinguished for being the "best new offering of the year for integration with Centera", its market readiness, business impact and commitment to joint customers. Informatica Data Archive's highly scalable, high-performance information lifecycle management software helps IT organizations cost-effectively manage data growth in databases and enterprise business applications. The software archives inactive data, which are less frequently accessed in databases, data warehouses and enterprise applications, while maintaining data integrity and seamless access to the archived data. Informatica Data Archive can relocate data to another database or to a highly compressed, optimized, secure, immutable file archive. Relocated data can be stored in any storage, notably EMC Symmetrix, Celerra, Clariion, and Centera, as well as EMC Documentum and XDB.

Informatica executive Paul Hoffman has been honored as the 2010 Global Sales Leader of the Year in the 4th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.

Hoffman leads Informatica's sales, alliances, professional services and education services organization across the Americas, Europe Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific and Japan. With a more than 30-yeasr track record of leading high-growth sales organizations, Hoffman has helped Informatica attain record results during his tenure at the company.

The awards honor organizations that display outstanding performance in the workplace. The awards give customer service and sales professionals the opportunity to be recognized for the results they achieve every day for their customers

New Finance World Magazine has named Informatica to the 2009 Annual Finance Data Management Software Product Recommendation list. The award was nominated and voted by New Finance World Magazine.

Informatica is acknowledged as a leader in the data integration market, and according to New Finance World Magazine: "Informatica provides professional data integration software and services to solve many kinds of data issue. With Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Data Quality, Informatica helps enterprises reduce costs and accelerate time-to-results, to achieve data integration projects in varying scale and complexity."

Intelligent Enterprise named Informatica to 'The Dozen' most influential vendors for the intelligent enterprise. According to Intelligent Enterprise, "Informatica delivered strong growth in an otherwise weak market through a combination of focused execution and disciplined moves into adjacent markets. Acquisitions in 2009 brought the company into application data lifecycle management, postal data quality and complex event processing. The company also extended three years of work on cloud-oriented integration approaches with the Cloud 9 platform, a multi-tenant environment for building, sharing and running data integration services and data quality mappings. Informatica kicked off 2010 with a major new release, Informatica 9, and the acquisition of master data management vendor Siperian. There's little doubt we'll see continued rock-steady execution and leadership from Informatica in the months ahead."

CRN has named Informatica to its 2009 Top 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors list. Informatica is acknowledged as an innovator in creating the cloud computing data integration category and according to ChannelWeb: "Informatica basically pioneered cloud computing for data integration, offering a host of offerings for customers of various shapes and sizes. It offers fast and easy pay-as-you-go and pay-for-use options that let users move data into or out of the cloud or manage data within the cloud from one app to another."

Aligning business users and IT, the Informatica Cloud delivers enterprise-class software-as-a-service (SaaS) integration applications and a powerful platform for developing and deploying custom integration services to non-technical users over the web.

Informatica was named the Most Influential Partner of the Year 2009 in MicroStrategy's inaugural Global Alliance Partner Awards. The awards program recognizes key business partners for working with MicroStrategy to support customers and helping them maximize the value of their Business Intelligence applications.

Informatica has been named a finalist in three categories in the 4th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service:

* Global Sales Leader of the Year – Paul Hoffman, Executive Vice President and President, Worldwide Field Operations
* Customer Service Management Team of the Year – Informatica Global Customer Support
* Award for Innovation in Customer Service – Informatica Global Customer Support

An international competition recognizing excellence in disciplines that are crucial to business success, the awards honor organizations that display outstanding performance in the workplace. The awards give customer service and sales professionals the opportunity to be recognized for the results they achieve every day for their customers.

Informatica is dedicated to helping customers accelerate technology innovation by delivering the strongest data integration services and solutions in the market.

Informatica Cloud has been recognized for the second year in a row for ease of use and ease of set-up for its Data Loader Service. Salesforce.com recognizes top AppExchange partner solutions based on user reviews. Salesforce customers consistently cited rapid implementation, ease of use and the ability to upgrade to Informatica Cloud Services for more advanced application synchronization and data replication requirements as the primary benefits of the Data Loader Service. In receiving this customer choice award for Data Integration, Informatica is recognized for its ability to take customer success to new levels in satisfaction and application excellence.

Informatica customer Smith & Nephew has won the 2009 Ventana Research Leadership Award in the Information Management category. The leading global supplier of medical devices for healthcare professionals was commended for their exemplary enterprise data governance and master data management (MDM) quality initiative using the Informatica Platform.

The Leadership Awards recognize and promote individuals and organizations that have contributed to advancing the use of technology in their organizations bringing together people, process, information and technology to achieve the best potential outcomes. These practitioners realize that successful business technology efforts require a team effort guided by leadership, and committed resources for critical undertakings.

Informatica ranks 89 in the Forbes list of the 200 Best Small Companies in America 2009. The list highlights companies that show both sales and earnings growth. Candidates have annual revenue between $5 million and $750 million, are publicly traded for at least a year and have a stock price no lower than $5. Rankings are based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity in the past 12 months and over five years. Forbes also compared the stock performance of each company with that of its peers.

Suganthi Shivkumar, managing director, South Asia has won the Best Asian Executive category in the 2009 sixth annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run – worldwide.  The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards.

In its inaugural awards program, Teradata has named Informatica the winner for "Best Partner Accelerate Package" in the Partner Impact Awards Program.

The Awards recognize those organizations whose contributions have had the most profound impact on Teradata's success in the past year. The awards express appreciation for outstanding teaming with Teradata to more tightly align companies and increase joint business activities.

Suganthi Shivkumar, managing director, South Asia, Informatica has been named a finalist in the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business in the Best Asian Executive category. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run – worldwide.  The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards.

More than 1,100 entries were submitted this year for consideration in 54 categories, so this is a significant achievement as independent judges agreed that this entry is worthy of international recognition.

"To stay competitive in a challenging economy, companies must come up with innovative ways to improve their customer relationship efforts."

Informatica was named a leader in the eighth annual 2009 CRM Magazine Market Awards in the Data Quality category. CRM magazine honors the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies that focus on customer relationships and the customer experience through the sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies.

Judging took place during an extensive three-month process and a proprietary rating formula that involved industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

Institutional Investor named Informatica Investor Relations the second-best 2009 Investor Relations team in the Software sector, as nominated by the sell-side.

Institutional Investor's rankings of America's Best Investor Relations reflect the opinions of over 600 sell-side analysts at some 100 securities firms across the US and over 650 buy-side investment professionals at nearly 400 institutions with combined assets of $5.7 trillion in US equities.  All voting was conducted on an unprompted basis.

Informatica CFO, Earl Fry, has won the 2009 International Business Stevie Award for Finance Executive of the Year.

A 25-year industry veteran, this award honors Fry's exceptional leadership and contributions to Informatica where he has helped build a global foundation for sustained performance. He is helping to further advance Informatica's preeminent leadership in the data integration and data quality software market categories around the world.

Informatica has been named a finalist in three categories in the 2009 International Business Awards:

* Multinational Company of the Year in North America – Informatica Corporation
* Chairman of the Year - Sohaib Abbasi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
* Finance Executive of the Year - Earl Fry, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Informatica is singularly focused on developing and delivering data integration software and services globally that help enterprises reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and enhance competitive advantage. Informatica is dedicated to helping customers accelerate technology innovation by delivering the strongest data integration services and solutions in the market.

Informatica CFO, Earl Fry, has won the 2009 American Business Stevie Award for Finance Executive of the Year.

A 25-year Silicon Valley veteran, this award honors Fry's exceptional leadership and contributions to Informatica where he has helped build a foundation for sustained performance. He is helping to further advance Informatica's preeminent leadership in the data integration and data quality software market categories.

Over 200 executives across the country participated in the judging process to determine the winners. The Stevie Awards were created to honor and publicly recognize the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people worldwide, raising the profile of exemplary organizations and individuals among the business community and general public.  The Awards are governed by a Board of distinguished judges and advisors that features many of the leading figures in American business.

Informatica has been named a finalist in four categories in the 2009 American Business Awards:

* Best Overall Company of the Year – Informatica Corporation
* Chairman of the Year - Sohaib Abbasi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
* Finance Executive of the Year - Earl Fry, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
* Customer Service Department of the Year - Informatica Global Customer Support

During today's tough economic conditions Informatica continues to remain focused and stay true to its mission to enable organizations to reduce IT costs and gain a competitive advantage by empowering companies in numerous industries to access, integrate and trust all their information assets. Informatica and its strong network of global partners are helping deliver solutions that enable companies to grow and run more effectively by aligning the organization to achieve operational excellence. Informatica is dedicated to helping customers accelerate technology innovation by delivering the strongest data integration services and solutions in the market. All of these reasons and more have made it possible for Informatica to reach the finalists' stage of these prestigious awards.

Informatica Global Customer Support has been named the winner in the 3rd annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service: Best Use of Technology in Customer Service category. Informatica beat out stiff competition with over 520 submissions received. In addition Informatica was also recognized as a Finalist in the category of Customer Service Department of the Year - IT & Telecommunications.

The Informatica submission focused on the "Global" in Global Customer Support, highlighting how Informatica replaced a regional support model with global, location-transparent support to ensure effective response to fluctuating customer needs. To underpin the new model, Informatica built an infrastructure powered by Informatica PowerCenter Real-Time edition which enabled support personnel holistic, real-time views of customers so that service requests could be handled not just at the nearest support center, but at any of the nine worldwide centers. The solution validates Informatica's value proposition to do more with less and to be operationally efficient.

"With all eyes on the economy, smart enterprises will have to make the most of technology to outmaneuver the competition and navigate the shoals of a challenging marketplace. The competition will be fierce, and it's more important than ever for companies to make the most of information and deliver timely insight, to quickly adapt applications and processes to changing conditions, and to maximize financial and operational performance."

Selecting vendors that are leading the way in innovation and business optimization, Intelligent Enterprise names Informatica a 'Company to Watch' in 2009. Companies that were considered are helping organizations move toward the ideal expressed by the publication's name, Intelligent Enterprise. All the companies that made the Editors' Choice list are deemed as leaders.

"An independent that has held its own in the face of fierce competition from IBM and Oracle, Informatica has continued to innovate with its push into real-time data services and data integration for cloud computing options including SaaS. Look for more forays into operational data integration outside of the context of BI."

Named one of the 'Products of the Year', Informatica PowerCenter Real-time Edition won high marks from judges, especially for functionality and performance. PowerCenter Real-time Edition extends the Standard Edition and gives companies one scalable and highly available platform to manage the entire continuum of data integration and data quality requirements – from analytical data integration to 24/7, real-time operational data integration.

"Informatica Data Quality 8.6 is specifically designed to put control of data quality processes in the hands of business information owners, such as data analysts and data stewards. Informatica Data Quality 8.6 also embodies a trend, recently recognized by analyst firm Gartner Inc., toward platforms that combine data integration and data quality features. Fully integrated with the Informatica data integration platform, Data Quality 8.6 leverages the platform's ability to develop and deliver data services to support the often elusive vision of true enterprise-wide data quality."

Informatica On-Demand Data Loader has been named the Best Data Integration Tool for 2008 by salesforce.com customers. The accolade bestowed only on Informatica, was earned based on the number of positive reviews submitted by AppExchange customers. Vendors receiving the most 4 and 5 star customer reviews in 2008, making powerful impacts on customer businesses garnered the "Best of 2008" title.

Informatica customer, KPN was recognized as the winner of the Information Management category in the 2008 Ventana Research Leadership Awards. The winner is an organization that has most successfully used information and technology best practices to advance business and IT management and improve its performance. The Leadership Awards recognize pioneers and leaders, organizations and individuals that exemplify the understanding that successful Performance Management requires both a team effort and effective leadership. They are designed to draw industry attention to those that have shown best how to commit resources to this critical undertaking and bring it to fruition.

Informatica customer RBS has won the Client Financial Services Technology Project of the Year Award for their SPOT (Shared Product Opportunity Tool) project. In order to optimise its data and in turn business opportunities, the bank embarked upon a major project to develop SPOT, centred on the development of a single, integrated data environment. Through its unified enterprise data integration platform, PowerCenter, Informatica enabled the bank to integrate data streams from various client information systems across investment banking, transaction banking, asset management and local management information sources to provide a complete, single view of each client's activity. More than 6000 users within the bank are now able to access the latest financial information for all corporate clients worldwide, providing a powerful single platform for cross-selling and enhanced relationship banking.

The Aberdeen Group has named Informatica one of the Top 100 most influential technology vendors for 2008. In an annual survey of over 9,000 respondents, executives were asked to name the companies that had had the most impact on their business in the last year. Vendors who were chosen represent companies that customers believe are driving business value through technology. The annual State of the Market Report from Aberdeen Group showcases the results of 5 years of history across 3 continents, 550,000 locations, 2.5M interviews, and 4,654 snapshots of current survey respondents.

In the seventh annual CRM Market Awards Informatica was named a Market Leader in the Data Quality category. CRM Market Awards honor those companies and individuals who are raising the bar in their customer relationship initiatives. These efforts are helping companies streamline business processes, maximize profitability, and provide more value to customers. Recipients were determined through an extensive three-month process and proprietary rating formula that involved industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

Informatica customer CEMEX was awarded a Laureate medal at the 2008 Computerworld Honors Program. CEMEX was also recognized as one of the top five Finalists in the Manufacturing category. CEMEX and other Laureates are seen as pioneers and principals of the world's foremost information technology companies. The programme aims to recognise and document the achievements of the people, organisations and institutions around the world, whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change.

Informatica Global Customer Support's California Service Center has been awarded the Service and Support Professionals Association's (SSPA) prestigious "Rated Outstanding" certification for Core Support, Assisted Support and Unassisted Support. To achieve 'SSPA Rated Outstanding' certification, Informatica Global Customer Support had to meet best-in-class criteria as part of a rigorous on-site audit. Developed by 50 leading technology companies, the SSPA certification program involves in-depth audits of support functions against a broad range of best practice criteria for delivering industry-leading customer support.

Informatica and customer ABN AMRO were named winners for the Client Management Award for their SPOT (Shared Product Opportunity Tool) project. In order to optimise its data and in turn business opportunities, the bank embarked upon a major project to develop SPOT, centred on the development of a single, integrated data environment. Through its unified enterprise data integration platform, PowerCenter, Informatica enabled the bank to integrate data streams from various client information systems across investment banking, transaction banking, asset management and local management information sources to provide a complete, single view of each client's activity. More than 6000 users within the bank are now able to access the latest financial information for all corporate clients worldwide, providing a powerful single platform for cross-selling and enhanced relationship banking.

Informatica CFO Earl Fry has been named Bay Area CFO of the Year in the Public Company with revenues up to $500MM category of the 2008 Awards. These awards recognize CFOs who have played a critical role in the success of their companies, as well as those who have contributed to the region's economic growth and stability. The CFO will also have played a key role in significant achievements of their company for example, in areas such as managing rapid growth, providing necessary services and infrastructure to support growth; achieving operational efficiency, cost reduction and cash flow improvement.

Informatica has been named to Forbes.com America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies list in The Most Trustworthy Mid-Cap Companies section for 2008. These are companies that, by their assessment, have consistently released transparent accounting statements and follow conservative accounting procedures. They are companies that "do not play games" with revenue and expense recognition or asset valuation.
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Named "best of the best", Informatica 8.5 has been named Data Integration Product of the Year for 2007. Informatica 8.5 won high marks from judges, who recognized it as "the most pragmatic story" out of all of the nominees in the data integration category. It was carefully reviewed for Innovation, Performance, Ease of integration into environment, Ease of use and manageability, Functionality and Value. Increasingly more and more companies are recognizing the benefits of treating data as a valuable corporate asset - Informatica 8.5 addresses the challenges of effectively integrating, managing and leveraging this data.

Informatica has been named one of the most influential vendors in 2008 that will drive the intelligent enterprise. Looking at scores of companies that expressed the ideals of helping organizations move toward the Intelligent Enterprise, only twelve companies were named in the ninth annual Editors' Choice Awards. Judges looked at the year ahead and considered scores of companies - in total 48 companies were recognized, but the Editors' Choice list are leaders, a select group of 12 ("The Dozen") elite companies that will matter most to intelligent enterprises in 2008.

Informatica executives, Dr Linda Pfeifer of Learning and Performance and Roslyn Jones of Global Education have both been named as finalists in the 4th annual Stevie Awards Best Executive – Service Businesses – up to 2,500 Employees category. These awards recognize individual women executives for their accomplishments and positive contributions worldwide.  The mission is to raise the profile of exemplary companies and individuals among the press, the business community, and the general public. The New York Post called the Stevies "the business world's own Oscar Awards."

Informatica customer The Defense Acquisition University has been named a finalist in the Performance Management Leadership Awards - Information Management category. The awards recognize organizations that have demonstrated leadership in orchestrating people, process, information and technology - the cornerstones of Performance Management - for optimal business impact.

Informatica customer The Defense Acquisition University (DAU) was awarded the 2007 21st Century Achievement Award: Education and Academia for its project "DAU Data Mart". The DAU was chosen from a short-list of five outstanding nominations and selected as the overall winner - recognised for its enterprise wide data mart consolidating information from over 40 disparate data sources. The DAU and other winners are seen as pioneers and principals of the world's foremost information technology companies. The programme aims to recognise and document the achievements of the people, organisations and institutions around the world, whose visionary applications of information technology promote positive social, economic and educational change.
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Informatica customer M&S Money has been named a finalist for the Information Management 2006 Business Intelligence award and the 2006 Premier Project award for its submission entitled "Meeting the compliance deadline from Basel II". The Information Management Awards, now in their eleventh year, are the premier European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information. These awards honor the most innovative and successful project involving the application of business intelligence technology and the overall best information management project.

Informatica, Deloitte Consulting and customer Nationwide won DM Review's coveted World Class Solution Award in the Data Management category. The award recognizes the ground-breaking FOCUS finance data-management initiative, a multi-year undertaking on the part of Nationwide to transform its global enterprise finance function, leveraging its service providers, Deloitte Consulting and Informatica.  Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition was selected as the data integration backbone that unifies the entire FOCUS ecosystem into a single platform used by over 2,000 business users at all levels and across all Nationwide business units.

Informatica and customer Carphone Warehouse has been named a medalist for the prestigious BCS Business Achievement Award in the Retail, Commercial & Manufacturing category. Carphone Warehouse made the final shortlist for successfully implementing the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform that enabled more rapid, reliable access to worldwide sales and call-detail information on a daily basis. Replacing a custom, hand-coded method for data integration, Informatica PowerCenter helped Carphone Warehouse streamline key business processes, improve cash-flow procedures and, ultimately, increase profitability.  The BCS is the industry body for IT professionals and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology.

Informatica, Teradata and Nationwide won the 2006 TDWI Best Practices Award in the Master Data Management category. Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition serves as the data integration backbone of Nationwide's FOCUS finance data-management initiative, consolidating data across more than 200 legacy applications into a Teradata enterprise data warehouse. As a result of the MDM and data governance initiative, Nationwide has improved regulatory-compliance efforts, decreased IT costs and increased business agility across the organization.

Informatica and customers BNSF, Fairfax County Public Schools and U.S. Coast Guard won four out of the five 2006 Performance Management Leadership Awards presented by Ventana Research. Informatica's IT department, led by CIO Tony Young, won IT Performance Management Leadership award for successfully using technology, including Informatica PowerCenter, to improve business performance. Fairfax County Public Schools won the Overall Performance Management Leadership Award and BNSF and U.S. Coast Guard won the Finance Performance Leadership Award and the Technology Leadership Award respectively.

Informatica CIO, Tony Young, won CIO Decisions magazine's prestigious 2006 Mid-Market Leadership Award. One of 25 award winners, chosen from a field of 175 nominations, Young was recognized for advancing the success of Informatica's enterprise "through the creative, resourceful and cost-effective use of information technology." Nominees were judged by a panel of CIO Decisions editors, IT executives and industry experts on how well they achieved IT/business alignment and project success within their midsized ($50 million to $2 billion in annual revenues) enterprises.

The American Business "Stevie" Awards named Informatica a finalist in three categories, including "Best Turnaround Story" of 2006. In addition, Informatica's customer support team and chief technology officer James Markarian were shortlisted in the "Best Customer Service Team" and "Best IT Executive" categories respectively. The American Business "Stevie" Awards honor and recognize the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and business people worldwide.

Carphone Warehouse has made the final shortlist in the 2006 Effective IT Awards Most Effective Use of IT in Retail category. AC Nielsen has made the final shortlist in the 2006 Effective IT Awards Most Effective Use of Information category. The Information Age Effective IT Awards celebrate IT strategies that demonstrate how technology provides indisputable business value.

Intelligent Enterprise's editors selected Informatica as one of the "hot companies" to watch in 2006. The editors noted: Comfortable with its identity, Informatica looks like the Switzerland of data integration. The acquisition of Similarity Systems adds data quality to its portfolio. PowerCenter 8 lays the groundwork for broader challenges as customers move toward SOA.

Informatica was selected by the San Jose Mercury News as one of 2005's Top 150 Silicon Valley corporations. The Silicon Valley Top 150 ranks the leading companies in the Bay Area based on worldwide revenues ("Sales'') for the most recent available four quarters. For the year 2005, Informatica jumped seven spots to place #94 among the leading companies in the technology industry.

Hong Kong Hospital Authority has won the 2006 Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Award (APICTA) in the Healthcare category for its Electronic Patient Record system with Radiological Image Distribution, a comprehensive clinical data repository powered by the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform. APICTA is an international awards program designed to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity and promote economic and trade relations.

Virginia Fairfax County Public Schools has won the coveted 2006 CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Award for its patented Education Decision Support Library (EDSL), a comprehensive repository of educational information built on top of the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform, to help the school system achieve compliance with the federally mandated No Child Left Behind Act.

Informatica's Harry Piccariello was recognized by the editors of Federal Computer Week magazine for his role in the federal information technology community as a volunteer to raise money for IT scholarships and other charitable causes. He has been instrumental in improving collaboration and partnerships between industry and government.

Informatica was named the worldwide revenue market leader in ETL for the fourth year in a row in Gartner's November 14, 2005 report, "Market Share and Forecast: ETL Tools, Worldwide, 2004-2009."  According to the report, Informatica captured 25 percent of the ETL market, highlighting a strong revenue increase of 10.8 percent from 2003

For the second year in a row, readers of DM Review magazine have named Informatica the industry's top vendor in enterprise data integration. Informatica was awarded the prestigious DM Review 2005 Readership Award by DM Review's 75,000 subscribers who were asked to rank vendors on the quality of products used in their organizations and their satisfaction with those products.

For the third year in a row, Informatica Corporation has been voted the number-one data integration vendor by the readers of Intelligent Enterprise magazine. Representing more than 80,000 subscribers, the 2005 Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Awards named Informatica the best technology vendor for both enterprise data integration and metadata analysis.

Informatica customers Carphone Warehouse and Vertex have both been shortlisted for the prestigious Business Intelligence Project Award. The award will be given to the company with the most innovative and successful project involving the application of business intelligence technology.

For the third year in a row, Informatica was named by Computer Business Review (CBR) as one of the ten most-influential companies in the integration market. Declaring that Informatica "pioneered the market for data integration," CBR singled out the company for having "steadfastly remained independent" and for "concentrating on enterprise data integration."

T. Rowe Price was selected as a finalist for DM Review's 2005 World Class Solutions Award for its implementation of Informatica's software in the Data Acquisition & Integration category. The World Class Solution Award, a symbol of excellence within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry, originated in 1996.

ING America's successful implementation of Informatica's PowerCenter data integration platform has won a prestigious 2005 Best Practices Award in the Enterprise Data Warehousing category. The annual Best Practices Awards provide thousands of practitioners with best practices they can follow for data warehousing and business intelligence

Editors of Intelligent Enterprise magazine selected Informatica as one of the IT community's "movers and shakers" to watch in 2005. Editors also noted: Now led by former Oracle executive Sohaib Abbasi, Informatica has its groove back. The new SOA-based Universal Data Services shows off the company's technology depth.

Informatica PowerExchange 5.2.1 was selected from among hundreds of entries as an eWeek Excellence Award finalist for 2005 in the March 28 issue. Designed to honor products that are both innovative and cutting-edge while maintaining a strong commitment to helping enterprises address their varied competitive, security and budgetary concerns, Informatica was selected as one of the best in the Analytics and Reporting category. eWEEK Excellence Finalists Award Logo is a trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Used under license.