REDWOOD CITY, Calif., January 9, 2002 -- Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytic software, announced today that Nestlé SA has chosen the Informatica PowerCenter enterprise data integration platform for Nestlé's GLOBE strategic business initiative. GLOBE plans to rely on the Informatica data integration platform to help manage the integration and migration of information from diverse operational systems across the company and to help reduce costs, improve performance and increase operational efficiency of its businesses worldwide.

The GLOBE initiative, which stands for Global Business Excellence, will implement common business processes by integrating common internal and external master data and common information systems. The standard business framework is based on the mySAP.com application suite. A global template will be designed and constructed at the GLOBE headquarters in Switzerland and then be delivered to the three regional centers (Europe, America, Asia/Pacific).

The combination of Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerConnect products will help ensure seamless delivery of data across the company and into the SAP application. This combination is designed to ensure that most of the transformation processes can be achieved without major adaptations by each regional center, thereby enabling Nestlé engineers to focus on other projects.

“We are delighted that Nestlé has chosen Informatica to help realize its ambitions in managing their worldwide data on a standard business framework,” said Ediz Ertekin, vice president of Informatica Europe. “Our enterprise analytics infrastructure is designed to scale with the GLOBE initiative as a key to improved efficiency and effectiveness.”

About Nestlé

Nestlé, with 225,000 employees, 479 factories in 80 countries and sales amounting to CHF 81.4 billion (USD 49.6 billion, EUR 53.6 billion) is the world's largest food Group. It produces and sells beverages, milk products, nutrition products and ice cream, prepared sides, cooking aids and pet care, chocolate, confectionery and biscuits, as well as pharmaceutical products (ophthalmology and dermatology, representing 6% of the Group's sales).

About Informatica

Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica offers 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 worldwide, 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 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/

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Informatica Corporation
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