INFORMATICA POWERANALYZER POSITIONED IN "VISIONARY" QUADRANT FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE MARKET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., September 3, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced that the company was positioned in the “Visionary” quadrant in Gartner's August 25, 2003 report, “Magic Quadrants for EBIS/Reporting and BI Platforms, 2H03.” According to Gartner, “Visionaries” are vendors that have a clear vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but they can still improve in terms of optimizing service delivery.

“We believe by positioning Informatica in the visionary quadrant, Gartner is confirming the initial success of our PowerAnalyzer 4 launch earlier this year,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “With PowerAnalyzer's ease of use, scalability and low total cost of ownership, we are rapidly gaining traction as the first end-to-end business intelligence solution that can be truly deployed to the masses.”

Informatica PowerAnalyzer is a business intelligence solution that quickly and easily delivers ad-hoc query and reporting, embedded Excel, and collaborative analytics via “out of the box” dashboards. PowerAnalyzer is the only business intelligence offering based on a single-server, pure Internet-centric architecture - designed for usability, scalability and extensibility - to ensure the lowest cost of ownership and quickest return on investment.

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/.

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