REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 2, 2001 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytic software, today announced it will release its third quarter 2001 results on October 18, 2001 at 4:00 p.m. E.T. The company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. E.T to discuss the results. The call will be hosted by Gaurav Dhillon, CEO, and Earl Fry, CFO, and can be accessed on the company's Web site at http://www.informatica.com/investor/. The Webcast will be available for replay for seven days on the company's Web site.

About Informatica

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 soon the real-time delivery of personalized analytics via web, wireless and voice. More than 1,300 customers, including 60 percent 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, the Department of Justice, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS and the U.S. Postal Service. For more information, call +1-800-970-1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.

Contacts:

Samantha Moore
Sr. Manager, Public Relations
650.385.5259
pr@informatica.com

Tara Calhoun
Director, Investor Relations
650.385.5059
tcalhoun@informatica.com