REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 28, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that it has embedded support for Web services into the latest release of its Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform. Available immediately, Web services support will help Informatica customers easily deliver embedded real-time analytic content, including key metrics and analytic dashboards, to information consumers across and beyond the enterprise.
“We are the first to provide a ubiquitous, always-on analytics 'dial-tone' by making our industry-leading analytics available as a Web service, thereby allowing analytics to be embedded in enterprise applications,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “Informatica's unique J2EE architecture enables the embedding of analytics to occur seamlessly without special custom coding.”
“Informatica is opening the door for enterprise applications to incorporate a real-time analytics capability and thus further increase their value to the end user,” said Joshua Greenbaum, principal of Enterprise Applications Consulting in Daly City, California. “This is a major step towards leveraging analytics as a key operational component of day-to-day business.”
Increasingly used by global enterprises, Web services enable business applications and their services to be invoked by standards-based methods to other applications over the Internet. By offering Informatica Business Analytics as an XML- and WSDL-enabled Web service, Informatica provides out-of-the-box analytics integration with enterprise applications.
This enables companies to share analytic content with consumers, partners and business units in real time and without the use of software development kits. It also provide users with a single sign-on capability, with built-in authentication for secure sharing of metrics and reports via Informatica software's J2EE architecture.
The Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform with support for Web services is available immediately. Base pricing for an unlimited number of users starts at $142,500.
About the Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform
The Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform gives users intuitive, Web-based analytic dashboards, reports, alerts and metrics personalized by role and linked with Informatica Analytic Workflows (patent pending) technology. This allows for collaborative, rapid time-to-insight. The platform's mobile dashboard delivery option, Informatica Mobile, enables personalized information and alerts to be delivered to WAP-enabled phones, PDAs (Windows CE and PalmOS), text pagers, RIM pagers and voice recognition interfaces.
The Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform is powered by the scalable Informatica Analytics Server, which automatically installs the Web service for publishing content directories, reports and analytic dashboards to portals and enterprise applications. Informatica Analytics Server integrates with the back-end Informatica Data Integration Platform in real time; enables seamless metadata synchronization; and provides a high performance, high-reliability, J2EE-based platform for analytics delivery.
Informatica provides business analytic software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica offers the industry's only integrated business analytics suite, including an enterprise data integration platform, cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,400 customers worldwide, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance. 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/
