REDWOOD CITY, Calif., August 12, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that it has been named the top vendor in the global data integration market in a bulletin from leading industry analyst IDC. The recent bulletin, “Worldwide Data Distribution, Migration and Repurposing Software Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006,” ranks Informatica as the leading vendor in the data integration space for the second consecutive year.

“For the second year, Informatica is the leading vendor in the IDC Data Distribution, Migration and Repurposing (DDMR) market, in addition to being the number-one ETML vendor,” said the IDC report. “Over the past year, Informatica has been evolving from a back-end ETML solution to include business analytics on the front end that, along with other Informatica solutions, are changing the focus of the company to promising business analytics opportunities.”

The IDC bulletin examines the data distribution, migration and repurposing market and leading vendor performance and profits for 2001 through 2006. The document also identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to be successful in the future.

“Experts agree that the most challenging aspect to effective analytics is collecting and integrating data from across the enterprise,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “We are pleased that IDC continues to recognize Informatica as the top vendor providing this critical technology to companies looking to optimize their business performance.”

Informatica provides industry-leading software platforms and tools for developing, managing and maintaining data warehouses, data marts, operational data stores and other analytic environments. Over 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies currently rely on Informatica data integration software as the foundation of their business analytics.

IDC is the world's leading provider of technology intelligence, industry analysis, market data, and strategic and tactical guidance to builders, providers, and users of information technology.

About Informatica

Informatica is the leading provider of business analytics software that helps Global 2000 companies monitor and manage the performance of key business operations across the enterprise. Informatica business analytics products span the entire “build to buy” spectrum, enabling customers to buy packaged analytic applications or build their own best-of-breed data warehousing solutions -- whichever approach best suits their requirements and resources. More than 1,500 companies worldwide are using Informatica data integration software to build and manage data warehouses. And, leading technology innovators, including Motorola, ConAgra, Brunswick, Brocade, Hewlett-Packard and GE, are using Informatica packaged analytic applications to successfully monitor and optimize business performance. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/