INFORMATICA LAUNCHES SUPERGLUE TO STRONG INDUSTRY SUPPORT

Industry's first solution for metadata visibility and analysis commended by global software partners, industry influencers and systems integrators

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., August 18, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced extensive support from key software partners, industry influencers and systems integrators for its one-of-a-kind metadata management solution. (See today's accompanying news release from Informatica.) Informatica SuperGlue is the industry's first completely Web-based metadata management solution for assembling, visualizing and analyzing information about data and systems across the enterprise.

“The outpouring of industry support for our new metadata management solution demonstrates the clear need that has not been met until today - companies are clamoring for software that helps them to easily visualize and manage their information assets,” said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica. “By working closely with our extensive ecosystem of software and system integrator partners, we are broadening the reach of our SuperGlue solution in the market.”

Software Partners

BEA

“Informatica SuperGlue is designed to integrate with the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform to provide our joint customers with an enterprise-scale Web services metadata management solution along with the industry-leading application infrastructure platform,” said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager of global software partners, BEA Systems. “SuperGlue can help enterprises analyze the impact of changes in Web services messaging and better understand the historical context of message delivery through Web services metadata. Together, Informatica and BEA can help customers increase visibility and control over both internal and external information assets, and can enable rapid development and deployment of Web services applications.”

HP

“By providing greater visibility into how data is moving across the enterprise-via technologies such as ERP, ETL, EAI and BI-Informatica's metadata management solution complements HP's adaptive management strategy,” said Al Smith, CTO of HP's Web Services Management Organization. “SuperGlue delivers deep insight into changing integration conditions that could impact business reports and decision-making, providing historical context around real-time alerts that monitor system performance.”

WebMethods

“Informatica SuperGlue helps deliver on the promise of business activity monitoring (BAM) by ensuring accurate context for business process events,” said Jim Mackay, senior vice president of technology solutions at webMethods. “Our jointly developed Business Activity Platform in conjunction with Informatica's new metadata management solution now help guarantee that real-time alerts and historical comparisons have consistent meaning, enabling faster decisions and responses.”

Industry Influencers

Database Design Solutions, Inc.

“At last a vendor has leveraged their existing products to create an extensible metadata solution,” said Adrienne Tannenbaum, president of Database Design Solutions and metadata thought leader. “With its flexible, open design, Informatica SuperGlue is architected to not only support Informatica's products, but also expand to a world of metadata outside data integration and business intelligence. By setting the stage for cross-vendor integration, SuperGlue is now enabling the next generation of enterprise information sharing.”

EWSolutions, Inc.

“Without an enterprise metadata management solution it is virtually impossible for any global 2000 company or large government agency to properly manage their information assets,” said David Marco, president of EWSolutions, world-renowned metadata authority and top selling author in the field. “Informatica SuperGlue takes a fresh approach to cataloging a company's information assets, providing IT users with powerful dashboards that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise integration.”

Inmon Associates

“Metadata management is crucial to improving overall project quality and flexibility as government agencies deploy recommended data warehouse frameworks - such as the government information factory,” said Bill Inmon, founder of Inmon Associates. “Informatica SuperGlue provides a complete directory of agencies' extensive data and greater visibility and control into data lineage, which lowers development and maintenance costs by promoting superior data quality and consistency among multiple agency repositories.”

The Data Warehousing Institute

“TDWI research has shown that there is a huge demand for enterprise metadata management systems that provide users with a comprehensive view of the enterprise BI environment, including lineage for all upstream and downstream systems,” says Wayne Eckerson, TDWI's director of research. “Informatica's new SuperGlue product represents an important step in delivering this type of functionality.”

Systems Integration Partners

EDS

“EDS supports a metadata management solution which promises to provide information to help us more easily assess the affects of change, streamline development, and improve quality through web-enabled reporting of the repository data,” said Dan Schwartz, director of the EDS Business Intelligence practice. “We see Informatica SuperGlue as evidence that significant progress is being made toward that solution which should ultimately lower our clients' total cost of ownership.”

TCS

“Informatica's SuperGlue, with its centralized metadata capability and complete CWM-compliant data model, is truly the answer to the complex metadata needs of a global corporation,” said Satyendra Vyas, head of the Informatica Center of Excellence, TCS. “Its Internet architecture not only allows the business users to view and analyze metadata, but also helps the development team significantly improve integration and foster collaboration. It provides development teams across the globe with personalized views into complex integration efforts throughout the project lifecycle.”

Wipro Technologies

“By providing us with a highly extensible metadata management solution, Informatica SuperGlue helps Wipro Technologies in quickly delivering large-scale data integration and business intelligence deployments to our global customer base,” said Vivek Bhasin, vice president of eBusiness and data warehousing at Wipro Technologies. “SuperGlue promotes greater insight into the integration process itself, both at the project and enterprise level, allowing us to in turn provide our clients with visibility into their IT data, process and systems.”

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. More than 1,800 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to meet their 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/.

Note: Informatica and Informatica SuperGlue are trademarks or registered trademark of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.