REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 18, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytics software, today announced that Informatica Applications now support the integration of data from Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. Customers of Oracle's integrated e-business applications suite can now use the packaged analytic applications suite from Informatica to help empower business decision-makers with timely insights and fact-based decision-making capabilities.

Oracle E-Business Suite 11i joins a list of leading transactional applications - including PeopleSoft, SAP and Ariba - that Informatica Applications now support. Using unique “business adapter” technology within Informatica Applications software, both the data and the process model from these diverse transactional sources can be automatically extracted and mapped directly into Informatica Applications. Built upon the world-standard Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform, Informatica Applications also support the integration and analysis of data from virtually any corporate system, including ERP, CRM, supply chain, procurement, e-business, mainframe and legacy systems.

Informatica Applications is the industry's only analytic solution that leverages intelligent business adapters to map the Oracle-specific aspects of Oracle 11i and other transactional systems to common aspects of Informatica Applications' data model. The data model within Informatica Applications is built on top of industry-standard business process models and therefore has no dependency on the specific nature of any one transactional system. By eliminating the need to laboriously create thousands of manual mappings and programs that have to be maintained over time, the business adapters packaged with Informatica Applications can help to substantially reduce the time to implementation, costs associated with building from scratch, project risk and ongoing maintenance issues.

Customers can use Informatica Applications to extend the value of their Oracle 11i implementations either by sourcing data exclusively from Oracle 11i modules, or by integrating data from Oracle 11i with other transactional applications and enterprise systems.

“A major advancement in enterprise analytics, Informatica Applications are the only fully integrated suite of analytic applications proven by customers to implement rapidly on top of transactional applications from Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Ariba,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “With the Informatica data integration platform at its core, the Informatica suite of analytic applications also provides access to a wide variety of other enterprise systems to provide companies with a true 360-degree view of their business.”

Informatica Applications provide the industry's only packaged analytic applications with all the necessary components of a full enterprise analytics software solution. They help decision makers gain insight by analyzing business performance across the enterprise-including the front office, back office, Web site, customer relationships, supply chain operations and strategic sourcing. These enterprise analytics are made possible by a world-standard data integration platform, a robust data model and a flexible analytics delivery platform. Built to be quickly deployed by IT and easily used by any decision maker, Informatica Applications provide analytic dashboards, alerts, reports, metrics and analytic workflows. The award-winning Informatica Applications are: Informatica Business Operations Analytics, Informatica Customer Relationship Analytics, Informatica Web Channel Analytics and Informatica Supply Chain Analytics.

 

 

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 1,460 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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Colleen Haikes

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