Stevie Awards – Sales and Customer Service 2010: Paul Hoffman

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 Editors' Choice Awards 2010

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.

Stevie Awards – Sales and Customer Service 2010

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 Wins AppExchange Best of 2009 Customer Choice Award for Data Integration

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.

Ventana Research 2009 Leadership Awards

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 named to Forbes 200 Best Small Companies

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.

Stevie Awards – 2009 Sixth Annual Women in Business

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.

Teradata Names Informatica Winner in its 2009 Partner Impact 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.

Stevie Awards – Women in Business

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.

2009 CRM Magazine Market Awards

"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.

Stevie Awards - The International Business Awards

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.

Stevie Awards - The International Business Awards
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.

Stevie Awards - The American Business Awards

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.

Stevie Awards - The American Business Awards
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.

Data Integration Product of the Year 2008 - searchDataManagement
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.

Data Quality Product of the Year 2008 - searchDataManagement.
“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.”

2009 Stevie 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.

Salesforce.com "Best Apps of 2008" -
Best Data Integration Tool
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.

Intelligent Enterprise 2009 10th Annual Editors' Choice Awards Companies To Watch: Information Management

"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."

Ventana Research 2008 Information Management Leadership Award: KPN
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.

Client Financial Services Technology Project of the Year Award
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.

2008 CRM Market Awards
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.

The 2008 Computerworld Honors Program: CEMEX
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.

The Banker Technology Awards 2008
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.

The Most Trustworthy Mid-Cap Companies
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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Data Integration Product of the Year 2007 - searchDataManagement
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.

Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editors' Choice Awards
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.

The Stevie Awards, 2007: Women in Business Awards
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.”

San Jose Mercury News Awards, "Silicon Valley 150" - 2006
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.

Asia Pacific ICT Awards, "Healthcare Project Award" - 2006
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.