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. Designed to draw industry attention to those that have shown best how to commit resources to this critical undertaking and bring it to fruition, the Awards recognize pioneers and leaders, organizations and individuals that exemplify the understanding that successful Performance Management requires both a team effort and effective leadership.

Informatica customer RBS has won the Client Financial Services Technology Project of the Year Award for their Shared Product Opportunity Tool project. In order to optimize its data and in turn business opportunities, the bank embarked upon a major project centered on the development of a single, integrated data environment. Informatica PowerCenter enabled the bank to integrate data streams from various client information systems across investment and transaction banking, asset management and local management information sources to provide a complete, single view of each client's activity.

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.

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.