Informatica Applications and Informatica PowerCenter selected by magazine's influential readership as best in class

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 31, 2001 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytic software, announced today that CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise magazine has named Informatica Applications and Informatica PowerCenter as winners of its annual Readers' Choice Awards. Subscribers of Intelligent Enterprise-comprised of senior executives, top IT application architects, and data management and business intelligence decision makers-selected both Informatica products for their ability to help businesses achieve significant ROI and become smarter, more responsive and more profitable.

Informatica Applications received the best-in-class award in the Packaged Analytic Applications category, while Informatica PowerCenter won in the Data Warehouse Management and Hygiene category.

“We are honored to be recognized by the readers of Intelligent Enterprise magazine for our core analytic products,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “Receiving the Reader's Choice Award provides further validation of the benefit companies can realize from a single-vendor analytic solution that can integrate data across the value chain to provide one enterprise view of customers, partners and suppliers.”

“Businesses today have to focus their IT investments on products that will help them unlock the value of current information assets,” said Dave Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. “Considering that Intelligent Enterprise subscribers are highly influential in the purchase of IT products, Informatica's win in the Packaged Analytics category clearly indicates that Informatica is getting businesses where they need to go.”

Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Readers made their choices among several categories of products, including comprehensive eBusiness application suites, business performance management software, customer relationship management software, analytic applications, business intelligence software, enterprise information portals, ERP applications, application servers, and integration middleware.

About Intelligent Enterprise

Intelligent Enterprise is the only IT publication focused exclusively on the most critical issue in business today: unlocking the value of collected information for competitive advantage. Intelligent Enterprise shows business and technology professionals how to plan, deploy, and manage the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, optimize business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. Published 18 times per year, Intelligent Enterprise provides comprehensive coverage of the technologies and practices that promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of business information.

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 enterprise analytics suite, including a powerful data integration platform, cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,370 customers, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze, personalize and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance.

Our list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Brocade, Brunswick, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, France Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Nokia, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and Vizzavi. For more information, call +1-800-970-1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/

Informatica, Informatica Applications and Informatica PowerCenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be tradenames or trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:

Samantha Moore
Informatica Corporation
650-385-5259
pr@informatica.com

Tara Gibb
Intelligent Enterprise
650-513-4566
tgibb@cmp.com