PALO ALTO, Calif., June 19, 2001 – Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, today announced the immediate availability of two new Informatica products: Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and Informatica PowerConnect for AS/400. The products offer ready access to mainframe and mid-range computer data, providing a complete view of the enterprise via the Informatica data integration platform.  Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and PowerConnect for AS/400 represent an important extension of the company’s portfolio, enhancing the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform with scalable, high-performance, and easy-to-implement solutions for direct, native access to business data stored in mainframe and AS/400 systems.

The proportion of corporate data that resides in the mainframe environment is up to 70 percent, according to industry sources. Leveraging this mission-critical but often isolated information in data integration and analytic applications typically involves the development of cumbersome, high-maintenance COBOL data integration programs coupled with extensive test procedures.

By contrast, Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and Informatica PowerConnect for AS/400 enable customers to source data and metadata directly from most major mainframe data sources (including DB2, IMS, VSAM, ADABAS, and sequential flat files) and AS/400 environments, respectively. This native access translates into reduced system complexity and higher performance. The ability to access and integrate data from multiple database platforms through a single gateway also results in significant cost and time savings. Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and Informatica PowerConnect for AS/400 can be installed in hours and integrated in days, with no change to existing application code. Once transformation logic has been applied via Informatica PowerCenter, the data can be readily integrated with data from other sources for comprehensive business analytics.

“With Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and Informatica PowerConnect for AS/400, we have extended our comprehensive integration capabilities,” said Girish Pancha, senior vice president and general manager of Informatica platform technologies.  “Informatica can integrate data from anywhere in the enterprise, enabling our customers to leverage business insight for competitive advantage.  We are pleased to have partnered with Striva Corporation to deliver this powerful addition to the Informatica data integration platform for accessing critical mainframe and AS/400 data.”

“Informatica is a premier data integration platform, and Striva is the leader in access to legacy data environments,” said Paul Bach, president of Striva Corporation. “The combined power of both companies’ technologies will allow customers to integrate and analyze mission-critical legacy data in minutes versus the days or weeks it would typically take to gain access to data using traditional methods.”

Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and Informatica PowerConnect for AS/400 incorporate technology from Striva Corporation.  The companies have worked together to integrate Striva products with the Informatica data integration platform.  Under the terms of the strategic relationship, the two companies will work together to continue to extend the newly announced mainframe and AS/400 data access and integration products. 

Striva Corporation is an industry leader in the fields of B2B infrastructure, enabling heterogeneous connectivity and database integration.  With headquarters in Silicon Valley and London, Striva was founded in 1998 and develops software to solve complex database integration problems for some of the world's leading software and hardware vendors.  Striva’s flagship technology is the first infrastructure solution to combine very high performance native legacy access with an easy to use and implement agent technology, thus enabling large companies to invest in new technology while maintaining the viability of their existing database infrastructure.  The company’s list of leading customers includes AAA, Alcatel, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Nortel Networks, WestLB and Xerox Corporation. For more information, in the Americas call 1-408-573-6798, in Europe please call  +44 (0) 1895 876117 or visit the Striva website at http://www.striva.com.

About Informatica

Informatica provides eBusiness analytic solutions that enable companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage.  Approximately 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, 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.