REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 17, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced it has been named one of the “Companies to Watch” in 2003 for integration by Intelligent Enterprise magazine. This recognition follows Informatica's reception of the Intelligent Enterprise “Readers Choice Award,” for which subscribers voted Informatica Applications as best in class within the Packaged Analytic Application Suite category.
Called the “information integration market share leader,” Informatica was acknowledged for its strength within the integration industry. The magazine recognized vendors in four categories that are “fundamental to complete IT solutions leading the transformation of business organizations in the intelligent enterprises” - intelligence, integration, infrastructure and collaborative commerce.
“Budgets for new IT projects may be tight, but back-office integration remains at the top of the short list of priorities. Whether the goal is creating a real-time, unified customer view or simply moving batch data from one place to another, the technologies involved are more strategic than ever,” said David Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. “Informatica is a well-recognized leader in the integration software market, and continues to play a significant role in enabling the intelligent enterprise.”
“Integration is a business imperative today, ranked by CIOs as one of their top priorities going into 2003,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “We are pleased to have again been recognized by Intelligent Enterprise as a frontrunner in this critical space, especially coming on the heels of their recent 'Readers' Choice Award' for Informatica's analytic applications. This award is ultimately a testament to our customers' success in using Informatica for integration and analytics to achieve strategic business objectives.”
The selection process for this year's “Companies to Watch” involved research, and assessment of the past year's coverage and reader feedback by the Intelligent Enterprise editorial staff. Companies were selected using multiple criteria, such as total revenue, name recognition, technology leadership, customer innovation and satisfaction, and sheer influence in areas key to the development of data-rich, value-generating IT solutions.
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, 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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