Informatica Extends Relationship With IBM To Japan

Collaboration will enable marketing and selling of  comprehensive data integration solutions in Japan

TOKYO and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 12, 2004—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that it will jointly integrate, market and sell comprehensive data integration solutions with IBM in Japan. The relationship will expand Informatica's reach in the second-largest economy in the world, and will help enable Japanese customers to speed development, increase effectiveness and reduce the cost of their data integration solutions.

Comprehensive data integration solutions from Informatica and IBM will help empower Japanese customers to more efficiently utilize their full range of information assets, deliver comprehensive visibility to wider sets of knowledge workers, and respond more quickly and intelligently to business opportunities and change.

"IBM will play a critical role in Informatica's continued growth in Japan," said Takemi Hojo, recently hired to act as representative director at Informatica KK. "Informatica will leverage IBM Japan's enormous market presence, technical depth, and local sales and marketing expertise to lead this important market with comprehensive data integration solutions."

 "We are pleased to work with Informatica as it makes strategic investments in its Japan operations and its global partnership with IBM," said Ichiroh Nakagawa, BI & CM specialty sales for information management at IBM Japan. "Our complementary products will help Japanese companies to leverage their growing amounts of enterprise-wide data for strategic, highly responsive decision-making."

Added Tetsuo Narita, manager of CRM analytics and BI solutions for e-Business on demand at IBM Japan, "As the Japanese economy regains momentum, leading Japanese companies are increasingly looking to leverage their information to gain business insight. IBM's middleware portfolio, together with Informatica's data integration software, will provide customers with integrated solutions that deliver powerful business value."

 As part of the agreement, Informatica KK will train IBM Japan sales personnel on the Informatica products. The agreement for Japan further strengthens the existing global sales and marketing relationship between Informatica and IBM. Through this relationship, the companies jointly co-market and co-sell Informatica's comprehensive data integration software tightly integrated with IBM's industry-leading platform technologies, such as the IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM DB2 Cube Views and IBM DB2 Information Integrator technologies; IBM WebSphere Internet infrastructure software; and the IBM eServer platforms.

Informatica's relationship with IBM Japan also builds upon Informatica's recently announced relationship with IBM EMEA. Informatica joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative to help support the needs of EMEA small and medium business customers in the insurance and financial services sectors.

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) 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. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit http://www.informatica.com/.

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