INFORMATICA WORLD, New Orleans, November 4, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that i2 Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITWO) has signed an OEM agreement for the Informatica Warehouse for Supply Chain Analytics and the Informatica PowerAnalyzer business intelligence platform. Both analytics solutions will become core components of i2's platform for supply chain management. Under the contract, i2 is also authorized to resell the entire suite of Informatica Applications to its customers. The new agreement expands an existing OEM relationship in which i2 embeds Informatica's PowerCenter data integration platform within the i2 architecture.
With this new agreement, Informatica's analytics software family becomes a standard component of i2's core infrastructure, helping its customers gain visibility across i2 applications and improve decision-making with data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities.
“Our deepened relationship with Informatica will help provide our customers with a proven solution for supply chain and business analytics that can quickly link management processes with core business metrics,” said Pallab Chatterjee, president of solutions operations, i2. “We are pleased to continue partnering with Informatica, a market leader in business analytics, to provide a single-vendor analytics solution with superior visibility and improved decision-making to our customers at all levels.”
“By strengthening our relationship with the industry's leader in value chain management solutions, we are providing companies with end-to-end solutions that will help bring a consolidated and consistent view of cross-value chain metrics that chart the pulse of their businesses,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “Our expanded relationship with i2 in supply chain analytics and other areas highlights the strength and continued industry adoption of Informatica's family of analytics software.”
Said Jim Cates, CIO of Brocade, “Brocade currently uses the Informatica Warehouse for Finance, HR and Customer Relationship Analytics with the i2 Demand Planner Applications to obtain a real-time view of actuals versus forecast for bookings, billings and backlog. We see great value in a tightened relationship between these two best-of-breed vendors to help companies solve complex demand and supply matching problems. Due to the packaged nature of the Informatica Warehouse, we were able to tie our ERP system and i2 data together in a very rapid implementation that took less than nine weeks.”
The Informatica Warehouse for Supply Chain Analytics helps companies analyze the supply side of their enterprise - including suppliers, inventory and procurement - and provides knowledge that helps to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and improve demand fulfillment and customer satisfaction.
Informatica PowerAnalyzer is a business intelligence solution designed for the rapid and broad deployment of Web-based analytic solutions - including dashboards, reporting, analysis, ad-hoc query and analytic applications. PowerAnalyzer is built upon a 100-percent Internet architecture - designed for usability, scalability and extensibility - to help ensure the lowest cost of ownership and quickest return on investment for analytic solutions.
About i2
i2 is the leading provider of value chain management solutions. I2's value chain management solutions help companies plan and execute the activities involved in managing supply and demand. These solutions span the entire scope of value chain interactions, including service and parts management, supplier relationship management, supply chain management and demand chain management. Learn more at http://www.i2.com/
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 http://www.informatica.com/.
i2 Cautionary Language: This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including forward-looking statements regarding the integration of i2 and Informatica solutions, the customer's ability to implement or integrate i2 solutions successfully and in a timely fashion, receive expected functionality and performance, or achieve benefits attributable to i2 solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those projected.
For a discussion of factors, which could impact i2's financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K filed April 1, 2002 and Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2002. i2 assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.
Note: Informatica, PowerCenter and PowerAnalyzer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies US, Inc. and i2 Technologies, Inc. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.
