INFORMATICA WORLD, New Orleans, November 4, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced its support for BEA Liquid Data for WebLogicä, a new Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software solution launched today by BEA Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ: BEAS]. Alfred Chuang, BEA's founder, chairman and CEO, will discuss this newly launched solution today during his keynote address titled, “The Power of the Platform” at Informatica World.
BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic can provide real-time information visibility to front-office applications, such as self-service portals and customer service and support. BEA Liquid Data uses extensible mark-up language (XML) technology, designed to provide a cost-effective, standard way to easily aggregate and expose logical views of business information inside and outside firewalls, regardless of the location, format or type of data source.
“We look forward to working with BEA, and furthering the strong relationship we have already built to solve customers' integration needs, ” said Ron Papas, vice president of alliances at Informatica. “The complementary nature of BEA's application infrastructure platform and Informatica's data integration and analytic solutions provides our joint customers with an integration solution for their diverse real-time needs.”
“Informatica and BEA announced their initial partnership at last year's Informatica World user conference, introducing BEA WebLogic Server as a key supporting technology for Informatica's analytics solutions. Our strong alliance with Informatica to date has yielded powerful benefits for our joint customers,” said Scott Edgington, vice president of global software partners at BEA. “We look forward to a growing level of synergy between our two companies - pairing Informatica's leading real-time analytics infrastructure with BEA's market-leading application infrastructure.”
In his keynote address at Informatica World, Alfred Chuang will address the synergy that joint Informatica and BEA solutions create for customers by marrying the combination of Informatica's analytic infrastructure with BEA's application infrastructure software.
BEA and Informatica currently have a business and technology alliance in which Informatica OEMs BEA WebLogic application server as part of Informatica's business intelligence platform, PowerAnalyzer. The addition of BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic to BEA's product family will help Informatica and BEA's alliance to provide further technology to solve the total integration and analytic needs of joint customers.
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, HP 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/.
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