REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 26, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytics software, today announced that Informatica Applications took top honors in the eWEEK eXcellence Award program for 2002. Designed to honor the best and most innovative enterprise technology product releases in 2001, the award was given to Informatica in the Business Management: Analytics and Reporting category.

“Enterprise analytics is a must-have in today's economy, as increasingly companies seek to gain visibility into their entire organization and run their business via metrics-driven management,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “We are honored eWEEK has recognized Informatica Applications as a 'breakthrough in enterprise computing' for 2001.”

The eWEEK eXcellence Awards seek to provide enterprise IT professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing products and services that create efficiencies, improve performance and provide a competitive edge. More than 500 entries in 15 categories were received this year, and were evaluated by a panel of experts, including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK corporate partners.

Winners will receive their awards at a special ceremony on March 5, 2002, at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston, Mass. They will also be published in the March 4th edition of eWEEK and posted on www.eweek.com.

Informatica Applications provide the industry's only out-of-the-box standardized reports and metrics solutions that help companies analyze business performance across their entire value chain, including front-office, back-office, Web channel and strategic sourcing operations. Members of the Informatica Applications suite are Informatica Business Operations Analytics, Informatica Customer Relationship Analytics, Informatica Web Channel Analytics and Informatica Supply Chain Analytics. These applications are tightly integrated with the underlying data integration platform, which provides unparalleled flexibility and allows the integration of virtually all enterprise and other strategic data.

eWEEK reaches 400,000 core IT buyers at 257,573 fully Internet-connected sites that are currently conducting e-business. These leading e-business IT buyers purchase Internet and intranet products and services, networking and systems products in volume for their enterprises and have an average budget authority of $21 million. (Source: June 2000 BPA). eWEEK's award-winning editorial content focuses on e-commerce, communications and Internet-based architecture, enabling its readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology solutions for competitive advantage in today's Internet economy.

 

 

Informatica provides enterprise analytics 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, 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/

 

 

Samantha Moore

Informatica Corporation

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