REDWOOD CITY, Calif., September 4, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that some of the world's top systems integrators are now authorized to resell Informatica Applications. By offering their customers a complete packaged analytics solution, these global consulting firms can provide their customers with a lower-risk approach to analytics, faster realization of business value and greater ROI.
Resellers for Informatica Applications now include Accenture, Core Integration, CSC Consulting, Deloitte Consulting, EYT (formerly Ernst & Young Technologies), Fujitsu Consulting, Headstrong, KPMG Consulting, LoganBritton and PwC Consulting.
“As more companies demand fully packaged analytic solutions, it's a natural evolution to allow our partners to sell the entire suite of Informatica products to enable faster and more complete implementation of business analytics rather than building an analytic solution from scratch with components and tools,” said Sanjay Poonen, vice president of worldwide marketing for Informatica. “Several of these partners have already standardized on Informatica's data integration platform for their customer implementations. These partners can now build on that rock-solid foundation to sell the entire Informatica analytic solution, adding their world-class vertical domain expertise, best practices and business-process insight to help speed ROI to joint customers.”
“Expanding the distribution channel for its analytic applications to include major systems integrators will place additional feet on the street in Informatica's behalf while also providing additional and valuable domain knowledge and vertical expertise,” said Mike Schiff, vice president, e-Business and Business Intelligence, Current Analysis Inc. “Companies are able to implement packaged analytic applications, and thus achieve business insight from their deployments much more quickly and with lower risk than if they were to build them themselves from scratch.”
Informatica's integration partners increase the value to end users by providing their extensive domain knowledge and strong channels to extend and configure the Informatica Applications architecture with company and industry-specific domain knowledge and business logic. Selling Informatica's full suite of business analytics software will enable resellers to more quickly customize Informatica analytics for vertical markets solutions such as federal, high tech and financial services.
Consultants from each of these integration partners across the globe have already received in-depth training from Informatica on the Informatica Applications suite. Additional training sessions are planned.
Informatica offers a fully integrated business analytics solution comprised of the world-standard data integration platform, packaged analytic applications, and broad scale deployment capabilities for corporate information consumers.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) 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 customers 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 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.
