Informatica maintains customers in Latin America across multiple vertical markets, including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, high technology and consumer goods. Leading customers include MetroGas (Argentina), UTE (Uruguay), Danone (Argentina), Banco Central de Venezuela (Venezuela), Itaú Seguros (Brazil ), Intelig (Brazil), TV-Sky (Brazil), France Caribe Mobile (Grenoble), France Telecom Dominica (Dominican Republic), Pemex (Mexico), Gamesa (Frito Lay - Mexico), Petróleo Ipiranga (Brazil), Elma Chips (Frito Lay - Brazil), Vitro (Mexico) and Xerox (Brazil).

Under the terms of the agreement, Softtek will provide sales, marketing, technical, implementation and training support for Informatica business in Latin America. Softtek has offices in all major countries and cities throughout Latin America, as well as in Spain and the United States. Informatica will manage and support Softtek's efforts through its corporate headquarters in California, enabling Softtek to leverage Informatica's centralized product and technical expertise, and successful sales, marketing and business-development programs.

“Our partnership with Softtek will greatly enhance our ability to respond to local customer needs and market forces with highly effective local resources,” said Manny Galvez, managing director of Latin America for Informatica. “Strengthening Informatica resources in Latin America will help both companies collaboratively deliver and support powerful analytic solutions for leading enterprises throughout this fast-growing region.”

“The enhanced partnership between Softtek and Informatica recognizes the successful alliance our companies have already forged and allows us to further build upon that success,” said Francisco Lara, CEO of Softtek Brazil. “As the master distributor for Informatica throughout Latin America, Softtek can now offer customers more comprehensive analytic solutions built upon Informatica products and an even greater level of service.”

Softtek previously acted as one of several distributors in the region for Informatica. While Softtek will now operate as the master distributor for Informatica throughout Latin America, Informatica will also continue to maintain reseller agreements with Softtrends, Softtron and Sybase in the region.

In addition to its reseller and distribution partners in Latin America, Informatica leverages strong relationships with many key technology partners in the region including IBM, Accenture, Compaq, HP, Ariba, SAP and PeopleSoft. Additionally, Informatica has maintained a significant global alliance with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000, and recently was selected by its Management Consulting Services practice as the first vendor to take part in its iAnalytics (SM) (integrated analytics) solution. This robust partner ecosystem allows Informatica to offer comprehensive analytic solutions to customers throughout Latin America.

About Softtek

Softtek merges global capabilities and cost-efficiencies with nearly two decades of experience to enable companies to maximize their technology investments. The international software services provider, the largest in Latin America, is based in Monterrey, Mexico and maintains its North American headquarters in Atlanta with U.S. offices in Albany, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill. and Miami, Fla. Softtek also has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain and Venezuela. The company's expertise includes programming development, commercial and government banking, retirement funds, telecommunications and Internet. Founded in 1982, Sofftek employs more than 2,500. Softtek customers include Xerox, Bayer, HP, Clorox and Telefonica. Key technology partners include SAP, Broadvision, SAS, Cognos, Siebel and Microsoft. Please visit our Web site at: http://www.softtek.com/

About Informatica

Informatica provides business analytic solutions that enable 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, 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/.