INFORMATICA MAINTAINS POSITION IN “LEADER” QUADRANT FOR ETL MARKET

Industry-leading analyst firm places Informatica in leader quadrant, evaluated for vision and ability to execute

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 29, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced that the company was positioned in the “Leader” quadrant in Gartner's October 27, 2003 report, “ETL Magic Quadrant Update, 2H03: The Market Broadens.” According to Gartner, “Leaders” are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

“We are pleased to be acknowledged by Gartner in the ETL market leader quadrant once again,” said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. “We believe this accomplishment is further recognition of our continued success as we expand our focus on comprehensive data integration beyond data warehousing to areas of operational data integration such as data migration, synchronization, ERP consolidation, information hubs, metadata management and profiling - all of which are critical for an end-to-end enterprise integration strategy.”

Informatica PowerCenter is the industry-leading data integration platform for building, deploying and managing enterprise data warehouses, as well as a wide variety of data integration projects. Informatica PowerCenter helps users transform data from disparate enterprise systems and sources into reliable information to support strategic business 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. 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 http://www.informatica.com/.

Note: Informatica and PowerCenter are registered trademarks 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.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2003 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.