SGI SELECTS INFORMATICA APPLICATIONS
High-performance computing-technology vendor seeks to gain valuable insight into supplier relationships with Informatica Application for eProcurement
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 27, 2000 -- Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of integrated analytic solutions for e-business, today announced that SGI (NYSE: SGI) has selected Informatica Application for eProcurementä to help its purchasing managers more effectively select and negotiate relationships with suppliers. Launched today as part of the Informatica Applications software family (see today's separate release), Informatica Application for eProcurement is an analytic application designed to help companies evaluate the effectiveness of procurement and supplier relationships.
"We were drawn to the enterprise vision and architecture behind Informatica Applications, which will help us obtain enterprise-wide totals on purchasing data quickly and accurately," said David Fairbanks, director of IT at SGI. "The implementation of the eProcurement application will help us examine purchasing activity on specific commodities by region, supplier and past performance, and use that data to make intelligent business decisions and optimize our supplier relationships."
Previously, SGI manually combined data from numerous enterprise systems to gain access to global information regarding purchasing. Using the eProcurement application, key business metrics such as buy/sell volume and on-time delivery will now be synopsized across the entire enterprise, helping SGI to leverage dollars and volume and, ultimately, control costs.
Informatica Application for eProcurement is a suite of integrated analytic modules for evaluating the effectiveness of procurement and supplier relationships. The eProcurement application contains key business metrics required to analyze areas such as material acquisitions, requisition approval rates, price variances, buy/sell volume, on-time purchase-order delivery and vendor ratings. Using eProcurement, companies can analyze purchasing from all sources across all procurement functions, obtain the insight needed to effectively evaluate supplier relationships, and reduce or eliminate costs associated with direct and indirect goods and services.
Informatica Applications is a family of three integrated analytic applications -- eCRM, eProcurement and eBusiness Operations -- 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 most robust analytic solution for gaining real-time insight across the entire e-business value chain. For more information, please see www.informatica.com.
About SGI
SGI provides a broad range of broadband Internet, high-performance computing and advanced graphics solutions that enable customers to understand and conquer their toughest computing problems. SGI broadband and Internet solutions enable customers to expand their business in Media Commerce-transacting content over networks. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with offices worldwide, the company is located on the Web at www.sgi.com.
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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