PALO ALTO, Calif., October 4, 2000 — Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of e-business analytic solutions, today announced that readers of Intelligent Enterprise magazine have selected Informatica Applications as the winner of the 2000 Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award in the analytic applications category. Launched in June of this year, Informatica Applications is an integrated family of analytic applications -- eCRM, eProcurement, eBusiness Operations and eMarketplace -- that allows companies to evaluate the performance of their entire web of customer, partner and supplier relationships, and act upon the results to maximize business performance.
"Informatica's top placement among analytic applications vendors by readers of a publication like Intelligent Enterprise illustrates how quickly Informatica has established a strong position in the analytic applications market only three months after the launch of this product line," said Gaurav Dhillon, CEO of Informatica. "Industry recognition for Informatica Applications and the products' adoption by global leaders such as Motorola, SGI and Philips is strong validation of our strategy to deliver the market's most comprehensive suite of analytic applications."
Intelligent Enterprise magazine is targeted at business and IT leaders, reporting on management and technology issues pertaining to business intelligence, data warehousing, customer relationship management, data/application integration, knowledge management, and scalable e-business. The publication is read bi-monthly by more than 100,000 IT professionals involved in the management of business-critical applications.
Every year, Intelligent Enterprise magazine sponsors its Readers' Choice Award with categories representing the various products and topical areas covered by the publication. Readers submit online ballots to determine the winners. The list of 2000 winners can be found at
http://www.intelligententerprise.com.
Informatica Applications is a family of integrated analytic applications -- eCRM, eProcurement, eBusiness Operations and eMarketplace -- that for the first time helps companies evaluate the performance of their entire web of customer, partner and supplier relationships, and act upon the results to maximize business performance. Powered by Informatica's market-leading data-integration platform software, the Informatica Applications family delivers the industry's most comprehensive analytic solution for gaining real-time insight across the entire e-business value chain.
About Informatica
Informatica provides e-business analytic solutions that enable companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage. Informatica's products include a comprehensive suite of analytic applications, the industry's most powerful data integration platform and a wide range of supporting services and partnerships. Over 1,000 customers rely on Informatica to analyze and improve their entire e-business value chain. Informatica's customers include 3Com, AMD, Boeing, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, GE, HP, Inktomi, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, MCI WorldCom, Mutual of Omaha, Philips Semiconductors, Polo Ralph Lauren, Preview Travel, Priceline.com, Sprint and Zurich Insurance. For more information, call 800.970.1179, or visit Informatica's Web site at
http://www.informatica.com/.
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined under The Securities Litigation Reform act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this release include statements regarding Informatica's ability to continue to deliver analytic solutions to leading companies across all industries. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as implementation and integration of Informatica's software, as well as additional risk factors outlined in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999 and updated in our report on Form 10-Q for our quarter ended June 30, 2000 and also in our prospectus dated September 27, 2000. Informatica assumes no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements in this release.
NOTE: Informatica, Informatica Application for eCRM, Informatica Application for eProcurement, Informatica Application for eBusiness Operations and Informatica Application for eMarketplace are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Samantha Moore
Informatica Corporation
(650) 687-6361
smoore@informatica.com
David Eichberg
Applied Communications
(415) 305-7130
deichberg@appliedcom.com
