PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTORS SELECTS INFORMATICA APPLICATIONS
Leading semiconductor company looks to gain insight across its extended
enterprise with Informatica
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27, 2000 -- Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of integrated analytic solutions for e-business, today announced that Philips Semiconductors, one of the world's top-ten semiconductor suppliers, has selected Informatica Applications to analyze and improve operational performance across the company's entire value chain.
"We required a solution that would address our key global business and technical requirements, enabling us to meet the immediate reporting needs of our sales, finance and product-planning organizations," said Chuck McCarty , CLASS project cross-application team leader at Philips Semiconductors. "Informatica's packaged analytic applications -- 'out-of-the box' -- satisfied the majority of our key reporting requirements, eliminating the time, effort, and risk of building an analytic reporting system from scratch."
Informatica Applications is a family of three integrated analytic applications that for the first time help companies evaluate the performance of their entire web of customer, partner and supplier relationships, and act upon the results to achieve optimal business performance. Powered by Informatica's market-leading data-integration platform software, Informatica Applications delivers the industry's only analytic solution for gaining insight across the entire value chain. For more information, please see www.informatica.com.
About Philips Semiconductors
Philips Semiconductors is a product division of Philips Electronics N.V., headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the world's sixth-largest electronics company. With sales in excess of US $5 billion in 1999, Philips Semiconductors is one of the top-ten semiconductor suppliers in the world (source: Dataquest). With offices on every continent, in over 40 countries, Philips maintains 30,000 employees worldwide.
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. More than 50 of the Fortune 100 now rely on Informatica's analytic solutions to obtain the insight they need to stay competitive and grow their businesses. In total, more than 750 leading companies across all industries use Informatica, including Merrill Lynch, 3Com, Autodesk, Chevron, Delta Air Lines, Met Life, Mutual of Omaha, Sprint, MCI WorldCom, Barnesandnoble.com, eBay, Netscape, CNET, Inktomi, Preview Travel, Priceline.com, 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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