INFORMATICA CONTINUES TO DOMINATE GLOBAL DATA INTEGRATION MARKET, SAYS LEADING ANALYST FIRM

Latest research finds Informatica the market leader with 21 percent market share, versus nearest competitor at 14 percent

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 22, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced that it has been named the top vendor in the worldwide data movement and replication software market in a report from IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice. The recent report, “Worldwide Data Movement and Replication Software Competitive Analysis 2003” (July, 2003) ranks Informatica as the leading vendor in the data movement and replication space for the third consecutive year. View the entire report here.

“Informatica is the market share leader in the worldwide data movement and replication software market,” said Steve McClure, a research vice president in IDC's Software Research Group. “In this market, successful vendors will meet the emerging market demands for real-time access to data, open and flexible best-of-breed data integration, and integration with business intelligence infrastructure products.”

IDC's research identified Informatica as comprising 20.9 percent of 2002 data movement and replication software revenue, with the next competitor at 13.7 percent. IDC's report (# 29767) also included its market-leadership grid, which placed Informatica as the leader in the upper-right quadrant based on its ability to meet current market demands.

“Data integration is clearly a market with significant potential beyond traditional ETL projects as companies look to improve business agility,” said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of marketing at Informatica. “We are pleased that IDC continues to recognize Informatica as the top vendor providing this critical technology to companies standardizing on a real-time enterprise data integration platform for a wide range of strategic integration initiatives.”

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software. Using Informatica products, Global 2000 companies can leverage their existing information assets for enterprise insight that helps them improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. With more than 1,800 companies worldwide, Informatica addresses companies' end-to-end needs for enterprise data integration and business intelligence. 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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