PALO ALTO, Calif. , March 6, 2000 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of integrated analytic solutions for e-business, has expanded its international operations in the Asia-Pacific region by signing a master reseller agreement with Management Information Principles, Ltd. (MIP), Australia's leading business intelligence consultancy group, and opening a sales office in Singapore. Both moves build on the strong presence Informatica has already established in the Asia-Pacific region through a strategic OEM partnership with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, one of Japan's leading technology companies.

"MIP specializes in implementing solutions built around Informatica's key product offerings, including ERP and e-business data integration, and analytic applications," said Clive Harrison, EVP Worldwide Sales Operations. "With a customer base that includes some of the largest, most respected companies in Australia and executives known worldwide for their expertise in data warehousing, MIP is an excellent ally for broadening Informatica's reach in the Asia-Pacific region."

"MIP needed a strong, integrated product for extracting and transforming data from many business applications across the enterprise such as legacy, ERP and e-business systems," said Steve Hitchman, managing director of MIP. "We chose Informatica because it offered the most robust, scalable data-integration technology available and offered the perfect fit for our customers."

MIP specializes in decision support, enterprise management and executive information systems with customers that represent Australia's leading companies in a wide range of industries, including banking, finance, insurance, telecom, manufacturing, retail and government.

The company distributes a comprehensive range of leading-edge technologies which integrate to provide total solutions for data warehousing, data mining, management and executive information systems, and enterprise decision support solutions. The MIP product set now includes Informatica PowerMartŪ, an integrated suite of software products for building and managing line-of-business data marts and analytic applications; Clementine, a leading data mining system used by corporate and government organizations for profiling, segmentation, fraud detection, churn management, CRM and many other applications; and RiskFactor, MIP's own powerful and easy-to-use Factoring and Invoice Discounting risk management system for banks and financial institutions.

About Informatica

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Informatica is a market-leading provider of complete analytic solutions for e-business that enable many of the world's largest companies to integrate data from across their global enterprises--including e-business servers, Web logs, ERP and mainframe systems--and analyze it in order to grow their business. Over 640 major companies across the world in key industries rely on Informatica's analytic solutions, including eBay, Netscape, CNET, Inktomi, Preview Travel, Priceline.com, Merrill Lynch, 3Com, Autodesk, Chevron, Met Life, Mutual of Omaha, Sprint, MCI WorldCom, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Zurich Insurance and Polo Ralph Lauren. For more information, call 800.970.1179, or visit Informatica's Web site at http://www.informatica.com/note

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