REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 18, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that DM Review has named Informatica one of the top vendors in the DM Review 100, the magazine's annual list of the best business analytics companies. Moving up steadily from the number 17 spot in 2000 and the number 12 spot in 2001, Informatica this year was ranked number nine out of 100 business intelligence, data warehousing, analytic applications and CRM companies.
“Informatica is very pleased to have once again been placed at the top of DM Review's business analytics industry ranking,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “Their continued endorsement highlights nearly a decade of Informatica's innovation, leadership, and superior partner and customer support.”
“With enterprise IT expenditures under increased scrutiny, business analytics products have continued to prove their value by posting consistently impressive ROI across all industries,” said Jean Schauer, editor-in-chief of DM Review. “Informatica's repeated success in the DM Review 100 and its 2002 ranking in the top ten are testaments to the company's ability to help customers improve corporate performance.”
In a survey, DM Review readers were asked to provide an overall rating of vendors based on expertise, service and support. The DM Review 100 winners were chosen using a statistical analysis process that utilized the following criteria: the number of respondents reporting use of a particular vendor in a given product category, the number of respondents assigning each rank for a given vendor in a given product category, the number of categories in which a vendor appeared, and the rating scores for overall satisfaction with expertise, service and support.
The complete list of 2002 DM Review 100 award winners can be found at http://www.dmreview.com/awards/top100/2002/2002_reveal.cfm
About DM Review
DM Review is recognized as the premier business intelligence, analytics and data warehousing publication. For more than a decade, DM Review has provided thought-provoking and informative editorial covering strategic solutions for business intelligence, analytics, data warehousing and CRM across all major industries. DM Review's authors and columnists are internationally recognized experts in a variety of business intelligence fields. DM Review editorial provides both business and technology perspectives regarding issues, trends and solutions of interest to corporate executives and IT managers.
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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