REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 8, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced the first anniversary of the Informatica Developer Network and its recent successes. Newly reached milestones include the registration of 3,000 external developers, new partner-branded products developed under the program, and soon the online availability of these products via the Informatica customer portal.

The Informatica Developer Network is a Web-enabled program that helps third-party developers drive the rapid development of add-on solutions to Informatica products. Developers from 1,100 companies in 43 countries have registered during the program's first year and created more than 10 add-on solutions to enhance Informatica products in specific functions such as metadata management, information quality, data interoperability, performance management and event monitoring.

“The success the Informatica Developer Network has achieved in its first year-with the introduction of new products, the fast-growing number of participants and its expert discussion forums-demonstrates the developers' innovation and passion for creating a collaborative forum for solving customer issues,” said Girish Pancha, senior vice president and general manager of platform technologies at Informatica. “The program's impressive productivity to date has significantly enhanced the business value of the Informatica platform.”

The latest products resulting from the Informatica Developer Network include those from Firstlogic, Group 1 Software, Trillium Software, AmSoft Systems, Data Advantage Group, Yaletown Technology Group, Sapior and The Bridgers:

• The Firstlogic Information Quality Suite has been seamlessly integrated with the Informatica Data Integration Platform to provide data cleansing, matching, and householding of critical customer and business information. The rapid deployment of information quality into the Informatica data flow helps users create a single customer view and improve decision support and business intelligence systems. The Firstlogic solution has achieved “Gold” certification from the Informatica Developer Network.

• Group 1 Software has seamlessly integrated its enterprise data quality solution, DataSight, with the Informatica Data Integration Platform. This solution provides enterprise-wide correction, validation, and enhancement of name and address and non-name and address data from customers, prospects and suppliers. Consequently, businesses can create an accurate, single customer view, thereby increasing operational efficiency and organizational decision-making and maximizing customer lifetime value. Group 1 Software has achieved “Gold” certification from the Informatica Developer Network.

• Seamless integration of the Trillium Software System with the Informatica Data Integration Platform provides the benefits of data quality across global enterprises. In financial services, retail, health care, manufacturing, high tech, utilities and other industries around the world, Trillium Software helps organizations better understand their customers and their business based on a complete, accurate and relevant data foundation. Trillium Software has achieved “Gold” certification from the Informatica Developer Network.

• AmSoft Systems has launched its Data Warehouse Event Monitoring and Notifications Solution (ProActor), which tracks custom events and exposes them to user-defined rules to determine what action should be performed when an event or a pattern of events takes place. ProActor adds value to Informatica solutions by providing subscriber profile and calendar-based personalized notifications, advanced resolution and tracking, and maintaining an exception repository.

• The newest release of Data Advantage Group's MetaCenter metadata management solution has been integrated with the Informatica Data Integration platform. MetaCenter delivers a customizable metadata repository that allows businesses to encapsulate necessary information to manage successful data warehousing solutions. The Data Advantage Group solution has achieved “Gold” certification from the Informatica Developer Network.

• Working in tandem with Informatica, Yaletown Technology Group has delivered the newest version of a metadata integration solution that enables the swift exchange of multi-dimensional metadata between the Informatica Repository and the Hyperion Integration Server. Yaletown also continues to help evolve products that provide a fast way to easily import metadata from leading entity relationship data modeling tools and ERP applications into the Informatica Metadata Repository.

• The Sapior Redbridge product for high-performance surrogate key management has achieved “Member” certification from the Informatica Developer Network. Sapior Redbridge accelerates and simplifies surrogate key lookup and generation, especially for data warehouses/marts operating in complex multi-processing, multi-user environments with increasing data volumes and arrival rates.

• The Bridgers, a newly formed company in the Netherlands, now focuses on offering data interoperability between the Informatica Data Integration Platform and SAS. The Bridgers products can load data from the Informatica Data Integration Platform directly into targeted SAS data warehouses and also read data from SAS data sources directly into the Informatica Data Integration Platform. These products in turn provide Informatica and SAS users greater ability to integrate and analyze their data in an efficient and seamless manner.

Enhanced Online Member Services: Web Seminars and Discussion Forums

During the last four months, the Informatica Developer Network has sponsored Web seminars from four of its members to educate the developer community about innovative third-party solutions that are tightly integrated with the Informatica Data Integration Platform.

The main portal to the Informatica Developer Network at http://devnet.informatica.com/ was also recently remodeled for easier navigation, especially in the developer showcase area which details the third-party add-on solutions. The site offers access to documentation, software, technical papers and a variety of discussion forums, which have become a rich knowledge base with 800 technical messages posted. It also showcases key partner solutions and provides a mechanism for direct feedback on development-related issues.

The Informatica Developer Network is open to commercial and corporate developers within large user organizations. Developer members include commercial software companies; corporations and government organizations with internal software development staff; consultants and system integrators; and academic institutions performing research and software development. The program supports software development efforts and creates a collaborative online community of developers by providing online discussion forums for interactive information exchanges, resource sharing, and open feedback between members and Informatica. Software products from Informatica Developer Network members can become certified once they pass a set of requirements established by Informatica.

 

 

Informatica provides business analytics 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/

 

 

 

Samantha Moore

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