INFORMATICA WORLD, New Orleans, November 4, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) has selected the Informatica Warehouse for Strategic Sourcing Analytics as an integral component of its newly offered Chief Procurement Officer Solution Set. By pairing Informatica's leading analytics software with CGE&Y's business expertise, the CPO Solution Set is designed to help companies lower their procurement costs and increase supplier performance.
“We chose the Informatica Warehouse for our Chief Procurement Officer Solution Set because we needed a rapidly deployable solution that would quickly give our clients an enterprise-wide view of their procurement spend,” said Brian J. Queenin, vice president and practice leader for business intelligence at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, U.S. LLC. “The Informatica Warehouse provides pre-built infrastructure, yet remains flexible enough to help our clients leverage their existing IT investments. Informatica will help us provide our clients with a robust spend-analysis solution in less time and with less project risk than a traditional custom-build approach.”
The Chief Procurement Officer Solution Set combines CGEY's business and technical expertise with the Informatica Warehouse for Strategic Sourcing Analytics software. In addition, customers may use either the Informatica PowerAnalyzer business intelligence platform or a third-party BI tool of their choice.
“Spend management with proper analytic visibility is an imperative in this economy, as organizations look for ways to better optimize and lower their costs with suppliers and business partners to maintain their competitive advantage,” said Sanjay Poonen, vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica. “The Chief Procurement Officer Solution Set from CGE&Y is a valuable offering for organizations that are demanding all of this - and with even greater speed, flexibility, responsiveness and lower cost. Informatica is pleased to be teaming with a strong partner like CGE&Y to deliver this valuable solution to the market.”
The Informatica Warehouse for Strategic Sourcing Analytics is a complete data integration and data warehousing solution that provides visibility into spend by suppliers, commodities and business units. Chief procurement officers can use the solution to reduce material and service expenses by consolidating spend across the enterprise and reducing their supply base. The application also includes supplier scorecards to track on-time delivery rates and product-quality metrics for improving suppliers' performance.
As a part of this agreement, both companies will jointly market the CPO Solution Set. Additionally, the CPO Solution Set will be installed in several CGE&Y Solution Centers across the globe to provide clients with best practices examples of how to analyze procurement spend. The CGE&Y Chief Procurement Officer Solution Set is currently available.
About the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group
The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is one of the largest management and IT consulting organizations in the world. The company offers management and IT consulting services, systems integration, and technology development, design and outsourcing capabilities on a global scale to help businesses continue to implement growth strategies and leverage technology. Early 2002, the organization employed more than 56,500 people worldwide and reported 2001 global revenues of more than 8.4 billion euros. More information about individual service lines, offices and research is available at http://www.cgey.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/.
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