GENENCOR SELECTS INFORMATICA TO OPTIMIZE GLOBAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Biotech company looks to centralize financial, manufacturing information for strategic analysis with Informatica PowerMart

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 12, 2000 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) today announced that biotechnology company Genencor International has selected Informatica PowerMartŪ data-integration software to consolidate information across its global enterprise for analysis in order to improve the accuracy of trend forecasting and reduce labor costs.

"With Genencor's primary data centers located both in Belgium and the United States, the coordination of information exchanges across time zones is a challenge. We needed an automated, robust data-integration solution that would provide our forecasting analysts and manufacturing managers with centralized access to enterprise-wide information at any time," said Bob Sullivan, systems project manager at Genencor. "We chose Informatica's PowerMart as the most powerful solution for helping us effectively leverage the wealth of information across our worldwide databases to increase productivity and optimize operational performance."

"In seeking to leverage its corporate information assets to boost business performance, Genencor is demonstrating the sort of forward-thinking, leading-edge mentality that helped make it one of the foremost players within the competitive biotechnology market," said Clive Harrison, executive vice president of worldwide sales at Informatica. "PowerMart has a proven track record for helping hundreds of leading companies around the world achieve significant business results. The product's ongoing selection by global leaders such as Genencor is an important validation of the product's success to date."

Informatica PowerMart is an integrated suite of software products that automates the process of building and managing line-of-business data marts and analytic applications. Since its introduction in 1996, PowerMart has freed organizations from the manual process of constructing and maintaining data marts and data warehouses.

Genencor International develops genetically based biotechnology products for the health care, agriculture and industrial-chemicals markets. The company has principal corporate offices in Palo Alto, Calif., Rochester, N.Y. and Leiden, the Netherlands.

About Informatica

Informatica is a leading provider of e-business analytic solutions, including a comprehensive family of analytic applications and the industry's most powerful enterprise data-integration software platform, 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 http://www.informatica.com/.

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