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THRIFTY PUTS INFORMATICA TO WORK ON KEY CAR RENTAL DATA
World's largest international car rental franchise implements Informatica data integration platform
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 17, 2001—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, today announced that Thrifty, Inc., the parent company of Thrifty Car Rental, has implemented the Informatica data integration platform to improve corporate performance and enhance competitive advantage. Thrifty is using the Informatica data integration platform to quickly and effectively integrate critical reservation and contract information from disparate field sources into its Internet environment, which drives more than 30 percent of its business.
“Getting a fast and consistent view of the information from our distributed franchise operations and turning it into knowledge the business can use and leverage is absolutely essential for our continued success and growth,” said Vic Alonzi, staff vice president of technology at Thrifty. “Informatica's data integration platform is a key piece of our strategy to integrate and analyze critical business information.”
Alonzi noted that the Informatica data integration platform has met all expectations in terms of speed of execution and ease of use. A comprehensive self-documentation feature provides graphical representation of data integration from source to target databases. Complete and easy-to-use product documentation, coupled with full online support, has made calls to the Informatica help desk virtually unnecessary. In addition, the Informatica platform shares metadata with industry-leading business intelligence and modeling tools—a key advantage, Alonzi pointed out, and one that is expected to deliver significant time and cost savings for Thrifty.
“I'm very pleased at the strong start we've made with Thrifty,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “The rental car industry is extremely competitive, and the Informatica data integration platform will be a valuable competitive asset in helping Thrifty leverage critical business data for insight and action. Informatica is delighted to be contributing in such a significant way to Thrifty's continued success.”
Thrifty, Inc., headquartered in Tulsa, OK, is the parent company of the Thrifty Car Rental and Thrifty Car Sales brands. Thrifty Car Rental is a value-oriented company consisting of more than 1,300 locations in 58 countries around the world. Thrifty, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTG). More information about Thrifty is available at the company's website, www.thrifty.com.
The Informatica data integration platform empowers corporations to make insightful, fast and consistent business decisions. It provides integration among eBusiness and enterprise data sources such as: ERP, CRM, procurement, XML, messaging, clickstream data sources, relational sources, mainframe and legacy systems. And the platform delivers the performance to meet the business analytic needs of the most demanding enterprises.
About Informatica
Informatica provides eBusiness analytic software that enables companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage. More than 1,200 global customers, including over half of the Fortune 100, leverage the Informatica Insight Network to integrate, analyze and personalize critical business information to improve business performance and responsiveness across the entire business value chain. Informatica products include a comprehensive family of analytic applications, the industry's most powerful data integration platform and a wide range of supporting services and partnerships. The company's list of leading customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Boeing, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Inktomi, Merck, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Motorola, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint and UBS. For more information, call 1.800.970.1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.
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Contacts:
Darlene Perry
Informatica Corporation
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