ADAPTIVE DATA INTEGRATION EMERGES AS KEY REQUIREMENT FOR IT EXECUTIVES, SAYS SURVEY

Informatica World customers see growing imperative for integration software that intelligently adjusts to changing information demands and conditions

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 30, 2003 - Ninety-four percent of senior IT executives surveyed last week by Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) believe that data integration software that adapts intelligently to changing information requirements and environments is now or will soon be an important IT requirement. Also, the majority of respondents believe that rapidly increasing data volumes and infrastructure complexity present their greatest integration challenges. Furthermore, achieving a single view of enterprise information (e.g. customer, supplier, products) is their most business-critical issue. These and other observations were drawn from customers participating in a survey at last week's Informatica World 2003 in San Diego.

“Today's enterprises are increasingly demanding adaptive infrastructure as an important requirement to keep pace with mounting complexity and rapid business change,” said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Informatica. “Informatica's software solutions differentiate themselves from other code-generating, cobbled-together products in the market in that our architecture is built to intelligently adapt to changes in an IT environment with a host of industry-unique technology innovations. In doing so, Informatica's adaptive integration software ultimately helps lower IT costs and increase IT productivity.”

Last week's survey results also highlighted the expanding role data integration software is playing within the enterprise, with eighty-seven percent of respondents indicating they use their data integration solutions for more than just traditional data warehousing. Additional data integration uses can include business activity monitoring, ERP consolidation, data quality, data replication, data migration and synchronization, and real-time enterprise information hubs.

Eighty-seven percent of participants also said they view Web services as a significant data integration trend. Within the data integration environment, for example, plug-and-play support for Web services enables data integration solutions to adapt quickly to a customer's existing and new Web services processes.

The survey also queried respondents on business intelligence (BI) issues. With many companies recognizing the value of a unified BI and data integration platform, seventy-five percent of participants indicated that effective metadata tracking across the entire integration and BI cycle is the most important benefit.

The majority of those surveyed also identified ease of use as the single most important BI feature, thus highlighting the trend away from BI solutions designed for specialists and toward a much broader base of business decision makers.

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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