INFORMATICA RECOGNIZES TOP INNOVATORS IN DATA INTEGRATION AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WITH 2003 INSIGHT AWARDS

Fourth-annual awards recognize powerful business results generated by Informatica-powered solutions

INFORMATICA WORLD 2003, SAN DIEGO, October 22, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, is presenting the 2003 Informatica Insight Awards today to companies that have successfully leveraged data integration and business intelligence to reduce costs, improve business performance and achieve competitive advantage. Representatives from Agilent Technologies, Aventis Bio-Services, New York State, Pfizer, the Red Cross, Safeco FIS and Waste Management are receiving their awards today as part of Informatica's annual user conference in San Diego.

“This year's Insight Award winners are leading organizations across a wide variety of verticals in Informatica's customer base, including the manufacturing, public sector, financial services, pharmaceutical and insurance markets,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “We are pleased that these outstanding organizations have achieved such significant success through a wide variety of data integration and business intelligence innovations.”

Winners of the Informatica Insight Award for 2003 are:

• Financial Data Warehouse & ERP Consolidation: Agilent Technologies
  A global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, Agilent is cutting costs through the increased productivity generated by implementing a financial data warehouse. Agilent used the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform to consolidate enterprise-wide financial and order management information into a single, global view from multiple instances of its Enterprise Resource Planning platforms, as well as numerous legacy systems.
• Business Intelligence: Aventis Bio-Services
  Aventis Bio-Services, Inc., one of the world's largest, fully integrated plasma collection companies, is using PowerCenter and the PowerAnalyzer business intelligence platform to gather information from its plasma collection and testing operations. The automation of this complex function has significantly enhanced the cost effectiveness of collection center operations, resulting in multi-million dollar annual savings and productivity improvements. Aventis Bio-Services is using PowerAnalyzer to track donation center performance and proactively manage its plasma operations to support management in meeting operational and strategic objectives.
• Public Sector Spend Analysis: New York State Comptroller
  The Office of the New York State Comptroller implemented a financial data warehouse using PowerCenter and PowerAnalyzer to support analysis of the state's financial activities, including payroll data for over 300,000 employees and accounting data on the state's nearly $90 billion annual budget. The office's consolidated data warehouse is intended to provide decision support at a time when budget constraints make the accurate and timely tracking and analysis of financial transactions essential.
• Enterprise Data Warehousing: Pfizer
  The research and development division of leading pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. successfully deployed an enterprise-wide data warehouse for strategic sourcing analysis and financial consolidation using PowerCenter. Pfizer's results to date include decreased global procurement costs, and greater control, measurement and accuracy of budgeting, spending and financial-reporting processes across the R&D division.
• Metadata Management for Data Warehousing: Red Cross of Australia and MIP
  The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) worked with MIP, Informatica's master distributor in Australia and New Zealand, to implement Informatica's metadata-centric data integration platform in order to help enable compliance with Australian legislative reporting mandates and maximize blood product production. By efficiently leveraging the architecture's reusable metadata, the ARCBS quickly developed a national blood management data warehouse and is in the process of consolidating disparate legacy sources nationwide into a single view of the donor.
• Data Migration: Safeco FIS
  The Financial Institution Solutions subsidiary of Safeco, a Fortune 500 insurance company, implemented PowerCenter to help enable analysis of its customer base for better understanding of risk profiles and product trends. By migrating its business data from the numerous disparate and overlapping systems that resulted from rapid growth and acquisition, Safeco FIS is realizing significant productivity gains and cost savings.
• Mainframe Data Integration: Waste Management
  The leading provider of comprehensive waste management services implemented Informatica's PowerCenter and PowerConnect (formerly Striva technology) to consolidate data from 800 libraries into a single repository of customer data. Additionally, using PowerAnalyzer, Waste Management now has visibility into its millions of customer accounts and can perform effective analysis of accounts receivables to improve its days sales outstanding.

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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