“BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TAKES A STEP FORWARD” WITH INFORMATICA POWERANALYZER, SAYS INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE

Evaluation praises comprehensive functionality, Web-friendly architecture, and Informatica's deep market and product expertise in data management

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 4, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) today announced that CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise magazine has named Informatica PowerAnalyzer 4 a “compelling alternative in the BI space” that “may well be the product to beat.” Featured in the magazine's November 18th issue, the magazine's hands-on review rated the PowerAnalyzer business intelligence platform “excellent” or “good” across five key evaluation criteria.

Observing that BI solutions “must be able to reach out and touch someone,” the review calls PowerAnalyzer “a feature-rich and technology-progressive solution that takes BI a big step forward in this direction.” After evaluating the product across five categories, Intelligent Enterprise gave PowerAnalyzer the highest possible score (Excellent) for scalability, support for analytic applications, and support for query, reporting and analysis. In addition, the product was rated high (Good) for BI application development features and support for performance management.

“Informatica PowerAnalyzer 4 has a slew of features to help you get the most out of your business data,” states the review. Attributes highlighted include PowerAnalyzer's strong reporting features, alerts and indicators, patent-pending workflow technology for guided analysis, strong support for Microsoft Excel, and strong administration features within the same browser. Also considered noteworthy were PowerAnalyzer's “sensible” Internet-centric approach and tight coupling with Informatica's enterprise data integration platform.

“All things considered, PowerAnalyzer offers a compelling alternative in the BI space and may well be the product to beat,” concludes the review. “Here's an easy recommendation. Give Informatica PowerAnalyzer 4 serious consideration in your enterprise data and BI strategies.”

“We are honored to receive such a glowing evaluation from one of the best-known publications covering the business intelligence and data integration space,” said Girish Pancha, executive vice president of products at Informatica. “PowerAnalyzer has achieved amazing traction in the market since its introduction 18 months ago, with rapid customer adoption and broad industry recognition for its next-generation capabilities. We are committed to building upon this momentum, and look forward to helping our customers further leverage BI for maximum business performance.”

The full review from Intelligent Enterprise, entitled “BI Takes A Step Forward,” is posted at http://www.intelligententerprise.com/031118/618products1_1.shtml.

About Intelligent Enterprise

Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 80,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. It provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering such interlocking technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing, data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management.

For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 415-947-6242 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.IntelligentEnterprise.com.

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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