Informatica PowerChannel supports fast, secure data integration across the Internet

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 16, 2001—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytic solutions, today announced it has extended its data integration capabilities to support distributed data exchange across and amongst global enterprises.  The solution, called Informatica PowerChannel, allows companies to integrate global corporate data as well as share data with suppliers, customers and partners across the extended enterprise, thus enabling a comprehensive view of the entire business.  When deployed with Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica PowerChannel enables secure, high-performance data interchanges across wide area networks (WAN) and corporate firewalls, resulting in more accessible and consistent business analytics for complete business insight. 

Informatica PowerChannel is designed to enable global 2000 companies with large data volumes and distributed data sources to achieve secure, high-performance, data interchanges and integration.  Informatica PowerChannel helps ensure the integrity, accuracy and privacy of all data interchanges with integrated encryption and authentication algorithms from RSA Security Inc., the leader in e-security. 

“Informatica’s ability to provide distributed data integration is a natural extension of our cross value chain analytic strategy,” said Girish Pancha, senior vice president and general manager of platform technologies with Informatica. “Businesses that need to securely exchange, integrate and transform high volumes of data across the Internet can benefit from PowerChannel. With Informatica PowerChannel, companies can now leverage all the rich functionalities of PowerCenter across geographic and corporate boundaries.”

Informatica PowerChannel is comprised of the following key features:

• High-performance data interchange.  Enterprise-class compression technology supports rapid integration of large data volumes.
  
  
• Data integrity.  Task monitoring, checksums (pre- and post-transfer validation), and robust recovery capabilities ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data interchange.
  
  
• Seamless integration with Informatica PowerCenter.  Leverages and extends the high-performance and scalable transformation capabilities of the market-leading Informatica data integration platform.
  
  
• Scalable architecture.  Multiple configurations allow users to push, pull, or broadcast data across and among any enterprise environment.  Multi-threaded architecture allows multiple users to transfer data in parallel from and to each node.
  
  
• Ease of administration and management.  Easy-to-use Web interface simplifies and automates task administration and monitoring.  An XML programmable user interface directly triggers multiple integration processes via a singe command.

 “As Global 2000 businesses are harder pressed for profit in a slackening economy, the value of agile analytic tools proves increasingly valuable to track growth and partner activity,” said Alexander Kopriwa, analyst at META Group. “Analytical tools must be designed to meet both availability and scalability expectations, besides providing a secure inter-enterprise exchange facilitating aggregation of data located across disparate IT systems and multiple environments. Only by effectively consolidating and analyzing global data in near real-time operations will enterprises achieve a complete and consistent view of operations.”

Informatica PowerChannel is available now and can be purchased direct or via selected resellers.  The product is priced on a sliding scale starting at $36,000 for two nodes. Pricing is based on data integration requirements.  

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, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, HP Corporation, 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.