LEADING PARTNERS ENDORSE INFORMATICA'S SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE APPROACH

Web services capabilities will help joint customers reduce IT costs and increase productivity, say global SIs and software partners

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 10, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced extensive partner support for the extended Web services features in the newest release of its Informatica PowerCenter 7 data integration platform. (See today's accompanying news release from Informatica.)

Informatica provides the most data integration application programming interfaces (APIs) in the industry, helping customers integrate the Informatica platform with their IT environments. Informatica's expanded Web services capabilities will now help customers more easily and quickly establish interoperability between their Informatica software and other enterprise applications. This approach to Web services is pervasive across the entire Informatica family - including PowerCenter, the PowerAnalyzer business intelligence (BI) platform and the SuperGlue metadata management software.

“As interoperability becomes more of a priority for CIOs and the use of Web services continues to proliferate, systems architects and business users alike are exploring how best to leverage Web services for more adaptive, extensible data integration and business intelligence,” said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica. “The expanded Web services interfaces across our entire product family make Informatica the industry's leading service-oriented architecture for data integration and business intelligence, and we look forward to continuing to support the evolving needs of our partners and customers.”

Industry-leading systems integrator and software partners that have expressed their support for Informatica's service-oriented architecture (SOA) and its significance to their customers include the following:

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young -
“Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's client-focused BI strategy is to help organizations realize maximum flexibility and return from their existing and future IT investments. Emerging IT architectures such as Web services integrate existing systems, applications and users in a way that accommodates changing needs through existing investments,” said Brian J. Queenin, vice president and global leader of business intelligence at CGE&Y. “Informatica PowerCenter 7 delivers Web services support out of the box, enabling us to quickly deploy Web services across a client's entire IT infrastructure, resulting in better collaboration between users, applications and technology components.”

HP -
“With PowerCenter 7, Informatica's innovations in adaptive integration and Web services go one step further in providing software that responds to changing environments and requirements in support of the real-time HP Zero Latency Enterprise architecture and HP's vision of the Adaptive Enterprise,” said Chris Rooke, vice president of NonStop marketing at HP. “Together with the HP NonStop computing platform, Informatica's adaptive data integration platform allows IT organizations to utilize unique integration software that adapts to changing IT needs, thus providing higher levels of productivity and service at lower total cost of ownership.”

i2 -
“We are pleased that Informatica is continuing to embrace Web services as the standards interface for its extensive list of existing APIs,” said Pallab Chatterjee, president of solutions operations at i2. “The ability to activate a PowerCenter workflow, kickoff a data import into i2, or trigger the moving of operational data to a data warehouse - all orchestrated by Web services - helps our joint customers that are implementing Web services architectures in their enterprises.”

Oracle -
“The InformaticaPowerCenter 7 data integration platform's service-oriented architecture supports the grid computing capabilities of Oracle® 10g by helping enterprises automate the flow of data and consolidate their enterprise information systems,” said Jay Peretz, vice president at Oracle Corp. “Together, Informatica's adaptive data integration products and the Oracle10g platform will help companies deploy secure information systems at lower costs, leveraging existing data assets.”

Sun -
“Sun is looking forward to PowerCenter 7's Web services capabilities, which will further enhance Informatica's involvement in the Sun Java Enterprise System architecture,” said Mark Hapner, distinguished engineer, Web services at Sun Microsystems, Inc. “This will provide our customers with the performance, scalability, maintainable security, and extensibility required for building and deploying Services on Demand with Informatica and Sun's platforms and expertise.”

Tata Consultancy Services -
“Informatica's new release of PowerCenter 7 will benefit our global customers through the performance and productivity gains of its adaptive data integration architecture,” said Dr. Santosh K. Mohanty, the head of eBusiness program management and global head of business intelligence and knowledge management at TCS. “This new version of PowerCenter will help us drive even more value for our clients by leveraging its new location-transparent team-based development features to support our global delivery model and enable reduced total cost of ownership and faster time to deployment. In addition, our joint customers have increasingly stringent requirements for security and technology advances such as Web services, and PowerCenter 7 delivers on all fronts.”

Teradata -
“We are pleased to see Informatica bring joint Teradata and Informatica customers the full benefits of Web services and a service-oriented architecture to ultimately help drive down the costs of operations,” said Mark Howell, vice president of global alliances at Teradata. “Informatica's service-oriented architecture will make it easier for Teradata customers to get more out of their existing technology investments and skill sets.”

webMethods -
“As the industry's first Web services infrastructure company, webMethods is a leading advocate for the use of service-oriented architectures and Web services to fundamentally transform the way that information systems resources are integrated and managed,” said Jim Mackay, senior vice president at webMethods, Inc. “With Informatica's leadership in providing data integration Web services, our joint customers will now have a single, end-to-end solution that is not only comprehensive but also perfectly architected to support their SOA implementations.”

Wipro -
“By providing unprecedented access and visibility for data and processes, Web services has become a core element of applications ranging from self-service, business intelligence and process automation to collaboration and customer care,” said Vivek Bhasin, vice president of data warehousing and e-business at Wipro. “Wipro has built up strong capabilities in the business intelligence and Web services space and is therefore highly enthusiastic about the release of Informatica PowerCenter 7 - the most extensible, Web services-ready data integration platform we have seen to date.”

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software. Using Informatica products, 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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