Informatica Joins The Integration Consortium To Help Broadly Define The Role Of Enterprise Data Integration

Data integration leader to help companies meet today’s “total integration imperative”

REDWOOD CITY, Calif, June 2, 2004—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced it is the first data integration solution provider to join the Integration Consortium (IC), a non-profit global advocacy group of users, academics and solutions providers dedicated to driving measurable business value from enterprise integration activities. Informatica will leverage its membership to help simplify and extend a company’s interaction with data regardless of the applications, tools and technologies already in place.

“We see the Integration Consortium as spearheading a new holistic approach to today’s enterprise integration imperative, an approach where data integration, application integration, and other integration techniques all come together to deliver value,” said James Markarian, chief technology officer and senior vice president at Informatica. “Through its participation in the IC, Informatica can drive the standardization of data integration efforts with Universal Data Services, enabling customers, partners and third-party developers to implement a flexible, unified approach for consistent processing and management of data.”

A Universal Data Services architecture enables shared data services for access, integration, visualization and auditing to come together on an as-needed basis, allowing for a broad range of data-centric projects for data warehousing and beyond.  The shared services model of data integration provides organizations with an enterprise-level approach to deliver data consistency across multiple integration initiatives, such as business activity monitoring (BAM), enterprise systems consolidation, data quality and data migration and synchronization.

“In today's challenging IT environment, data integration plays an integral role in unifying data across processes, systems and users,” said Michael Kuhbock, co-chairman and founder of the Integration Consortium.  “As the first data integration solution provider within the Integration Consortium, Informatica’s expertise and vision will help guide consortium initiatives and ensure that enterprise integration solutions and activities address the full spectrum of integration requirements.”

The Integration Consortium is a non-profit industry body responsible for influencing the direction of the integration industry. Its members champion Integration Acumen by establishing standards, guidelines, best practices, research and the articulation of strategic and measurable business benefits.  The mission of the member-driven Integration Consortium is to establish universal seamless integration that engages industry stakeholders from the business & technology community.

Among the sectors represented in the Integration Consortium membership are end user corporations, independent software vendors (ISVs), hardware vendors, system integrators, academic institutions, non-profit institutions and individual members, as well as various industry leaders. Information on the Integration Consortium is available at http://www.integrationconsortium.org/.

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, visualize and audit their enterprise information assets to help improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 2,000 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs.

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