INFORMATICA EXPANDS DATA-INTEGRATION PLATFORM WITH INTRODUCTION OF POWERBRIDGE

New product helps users of Hyperion Essbase server to more easily, quickly access enterprise data for strategic analysis

LAS VEGAS, Solutions 2000, May 16, 2000 -- Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of integrated analytic solutions for e-business, today introduced PowerBridge™ for Hyperion® Essbase®, the newest addition to Informatica's enterprise family of analytic infrastructure software. Informatica PowerBridge provides a seamless bridge for migrating multidimensional metadata from Informatica's PowerCenter™ and PowerMart® data-integration software into Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server, the market-leading online analytical processing (OLAP) server from Hyperion (NASDAQ: HYSL). With PowerBridge, Hyperion Essbase customers can more quickly and easily deliver critical business information to a wide range of business-analysis applications in areas such as e-CRM for strategic analysis.

In use today by more than 3,000 companies, Hyperion Essbase is the industry's leading OLAP server platform. Optimized for enterprise business analysis applications, Hyperion Essbase manages data in a multidimensional format, delivering maximum performance for analytic applications within an overall enterprise data warehousing environment.

PowerBridge enables multidimensional metadata stored within Informatica PowerCenter and PowerMart data repositories to be quickly and easily transferred to Hyperion Essbase. The efficient metadata exchange enabled by PowerBridge is designed to help Hyperion Essbase customers more quickly and accurately access enterprise data to obtain business insight, and facilitate easy maintenance in large-scale warehousing environments with dozens of OLAP applications.

"With the introduction of PowerBridge, thousands of companies standardized on Hyperion Essbase can now take advantage of Informatica's market-leading data-integration software to power their business intelligence operations with data consolidated from systems across the enterprise," said John Bow, director of business development at Informatica. "The ability to quickly and easily access a wealth of enterprise information further supports the efforts of Hyperion Essbase customers to gain insight through strategic business analysis."

"Large global enterprises have recognized that OLAP is a critical component of any successful data warehousing initiative," said Lance Walter, director of OLAP product marketing for Hyperion. "Partnerships with data warehousing leaders such as Informatica make it much easier for our global customers to access and analyze vast amounts of data in e-Business, CRM, supply chain and financial systems, and increase the return on data warehouse investment."

PowerBridge for Hyperion Essbase is currently available from Informatica. More information on Hyperion's products and services is available at http://www.hyperion.com, info@hyperion.com, or 1-800-286-8000.

About Informatica

Informatica is a leading provider of e-business analytic solutions, including the industry's most powerful enterprise data-integration software platform and analytic applications that help companies evaluate their performance across the entire e-business value chain. Many of the world's largest companies rely on Informatica to integrate data from systems across their extended enterprises for analysis in order to grow their business. Informatica currently maintains 751 customers across all industries, including Barnesandnoble.com, eBay, Netscape, CNET, Inktomi, Preview Travel, Priceline.com, Merrill Lynch, 3Com, Autodesk, Chevron, Delta Air Lines, 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 www.informatica.com.

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