Administering 70 percent of all student aid, office of student financial assistance leverages Informatica PowerCenter to improve access to information

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., January 28, 2002 - Enterprise analytics leader Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) today announced that the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Student Financial Assistance (SFA) is currently using the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform to help consolidate its vast amounts of information to support improving customer and employee satisfaction as well as lowering the cost for delivering student financial assistance.

The departments within the office of SFA are organized in channels around the customers they serve. The Informatica platform is currently used within the Students Channel, the Financial Partners Channel, and the office of the chief financial officer (CFO). Informatica PowerCenter is used in the Students Channel for administering the Federal Direct Loan Program and in the Financial Partners Channel that deals with student lending among financial partners that include guarantee agencies, lenders, and loan servicers. In the office of the CFO, the Informatica data integration platform is used for financial management.

The Informatica data integration platform is deployed on a Sun Microsystems server sourcing data from mainframe applications and populating Oracle-based data marts.

“As a performance-based organization that handles 70 percent of the nation's student financial aid, the SFA is an excellent example of a large enterprise that can leverage its enormous amount of data by transforming it into valuable business insight,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica Corporation. “We are pleased that Informatica has won the confidence of the SFA through our ability to manage and improve access to enormous amounts of data.”

About the Department of Education, Office of Student Financial Assistance (SFA)

The 1998 Reauthorization of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 established SFA as the first Performance Based Organization (PBO) within the Federal government. With more than 1,200 employees, SFA administers more than $60 billion of financial aid a year to college students, about 70 percent of all student aid, to help millions of students and families pay for postsecondary education.

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 1,465 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, BP Amoco, Brocade, Brunswick, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, France Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Nestle, Nokia, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and Washington Mutual. 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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Contact:

Samantha Moore
Informatica Corporation
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Evan Weisel
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