BEARINGPOINT AND INFORMATICA TEAM TO HELP U.S. AIR FORCE IMPROVE COMBAT READINESS

Enterprise Data Warehouse initiative enhances Air Force's visibility into military resources to arm war fighters with critical combat support information

McLean, Va., and Redwood City, Calif., September 2, 2003-BearingPoint, Inc., (NYSE:BE), one of the world's largest business consulting and systems integration firms, and Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced that the U.S. Air Force's Material Systems Group/Enterprise Data Solutions (MSG/ESD) program office has successfully implemented the Informatica PowerCenter data integration solution. Implemented for its Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), MSG/ESD is leveraging the solution to enable supply chain analytics capabilities that empower its war fighters with more accurate, reliable, and readily accessible logistics information to support combat initiatives.

Representing the Air Force's first enterprise-wide data warehousing initiative, the EDW provides members of the Air Force - from commanders to logisticians - with Web access to a full spectrum of integrated combat-support data. Integrating information from 26 legacy systems, including maintenance, supply, transportation, and financial data repositories, the EDW enhances the war fighter's ability to quickly retrieve and analyze accurate, real-time supply chain data on aircraft-combat status, availability of critical parts, outstanding maintenance orders, and the status of financial transactions.

“The EDW consolidates large volumes of data from disparate systems, providing our personnel with a single online resource to make faster, more informed supply chain decisions,” said Mike Riley, EDW program manager, U.S. Air Force. “Leveraging data integration technology like Informatica, we have successfully consolidated data from 26 legacy systems into one robust, scalable data system to improve our operational efficiency.”

“Government agencies require the ability to rapidly access, integrate, and analyze data to fulfill evolving mission requirements,” said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president for worldwide marketing at Informatica. “Informatica is proud to play a pivotal role in this strategic Air Force initiative by providing our industry-leading data integration solution to support this prime example of today's progressive government.”

BearingPoint is the prime contractor, program manager, and systems integrator on the EDW project, helping the Air Force install and configure the Informatica PowerCenter data integration software. BearingPoint uses the Informatica solution to streamline the process of extracting files from servers, performing transformation routines that apply business rules, integrating and standardizing the data, as well as loading the data into the warehouse.

“We commend the Air Force for its prescient vision and dedication to this initiative,” said Dan Marion, a managing director with BearingPoint's federal service practice. “The EDW is a broad scope program and is clearly transforming the way the Air Force does business. The seamless integration of critical data means the Air Force is making better decisions as a result of more accurate, more complete, and more timely information.”

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/.

About BearingPoint, Inc.

IBearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE) is one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms serving Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses, government agencies and other organizations. We provide business and technology strategy, systems design, architecture, applications implementation, network, systems integration and managed services. Our service offerings are designed to help our clients generate revenue, reduce costs and access the information necessary to operate their business on a timely basis. Based in McLean, Va., BearingPoint has been named by Fortune as one of America's Most Admired Companies in the computer and data services sector. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://www.bearingpoint.com/.

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