INFORMATICA SELECTED AS FOUNDING MEMBER OF IDC'S SOFTWARE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Collaborative forum of software and end-user executives to help define, prioritize and comment on key industry issues

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 19, 2003 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced the selection of Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, as a founding member of IDC's Software Leadership Council. The council is a unique, collaborative forum bringing together the viewpoints of senior executives from more than 30 of the most accomplished software vendors in the world.

During the Software Leadership Council's bi-annual meetings, participants will identify, analyze and formulate strategies for addressing some of the most important issues facing the software industry. The council's iterative process will include quarterly member surveys on key software topics, IDC research on high-priority topics and commentary from members during ongoing meetings.

“IDC is pleased to welcome Informatica's participation as a founding member of our elite Software Leadership Council,” said Henry Morris, group vice president for applications and information access research at IDC Research, a leading market intelligence and advisory firm. “We expect industry leaders such as Informatica to significantly contribute to identifying and researching critical software industry issues.”

“There are several topics and themes that need to be addressed by the collective software industry, including IT consolidation, grid computing, Web services, flexible pricing needs, government regulation and even newer trends like RFID,” said Poonen. “By combining Informatica's leadership role in data integration and business intelligence with the technology expertise of other council members, we can help address and determine the appropriate strategy for these and other key issues affecting the software industry.”

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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