REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 23, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that Informatica received a 2002 Reader's Choice Award from CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise magazine. For the second consecutive year, subscribers of Intelligent Enterprise voted Informatica Applications as best in class within the Packaged Analytic Application Suite category.
“We are honored to be recognized again by the readers of Intelligent Enterprise magazine as their preferred choice for analytic applications,” said Sanjay Poonen, vice president of worldwide marketing for Informatica. “Receiving the Reader's Choice Award for two years running highlights the business benefits that industry-leading companies such as HP, Brunswick, ConAgra, Motorola, Brocade and Waste Management continue to achieve using Informatica Applications.”
“Today's businesses have no room for extraneous costs and are focusing their IT investments on products that will help them take advantage of current knowledge assets,” said David Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. “Our subscribers are highly influential in the purchase of IT products, and Informatica's two-time win in the Packaged Analytics category clearly indicates that the company is making its customers successful.”
Voting was open exclusively to Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Results will be published in the October 30, 2002 issue of Intelligent Enterprise magazine. Readers made their choices among several categories of products in the four Intelligent Enterprise technology focus areas: intelligence, integration, infrastructure and collaborative commerce.
Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 100,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships.
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 1,600 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 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com.
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