PALO ALTO, Calif., August 1, 2001 – Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytic software, today announced that Ray Lane, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former president of Oracle, will be one of the keynote speakers at Informatica’s annual user conference, Informatica World 2001. The theme of this year’s conference, which will take place October 21 to 24 in San Francisco, is “Powering Business Insight.”
In his keynote address, Ray Lane will focus on the evolution of analytic technology solutions, how to further extend the benefits of analytics to the masses, and the current direction of the IT industry overall. Also presenting keynote addresses at Informatica World will be Informatica CEO Gaurav Dhillon, Informatica President and COO Diaz Nesamoney, and Siebel Systems’ Executive Vice President David Schmaier.
Informatica World will also feature a customer panel and Q&A session introduced and moderated by Forrester analyst Joseph Butt. Participating Informatica customers will include Brocade, Merrill Lynch and Motorola. Topics to be covered will include analytics challenges and best practices, build versus buy, how to achieve business insight across your entire organization, and return on investment.
In addition to the keynote presentations and customer panel at Informatica World, more than 50 breakout sessions are planned on topics such as implementation, data integration platforms, analytic applications and partner solutions. Also, 40 of the leading OLAP, portal, database and tools vendors will be exhibiting at the conference to showcase their solutions.
“Informatica World provides a forum for the Informatica worldwide user community to share experiences, best practices and successful solutions,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “Attendees should leave the conference better equipped to use corporate data assets as a strategic competitive advantage as well as a means to measure business performance in key areas of their businesses. They will also have an opportunity to hear about new products from Informatica and our key partners as well as share best practices with their peers.”
Registration
For more information or to register for the conference, please visit http://www.informatica.com/world/index.html or call 800-648-5717 (toll-free) or 719-473-8245 (outside the USA).
About Informatica Corporation
Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that enables decision-makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica provides the industry's only integrated set of analytic products including a powerful data integration platform, a suite of cross-value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of personalized analytics via web, wireless and voice. More than 1,300 customers, including over half of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision-makers to optimize business performance. The company's list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, HP Corp., 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/.
