Informatica Appoints John Entenmann As Executive Vice President Of Corporate Strategy And Marketing

Former head of Oracle’s Business Intelligence group brings wealth of experience in data integration product and market development

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., September 29, 2004—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that John Entenmann has joined the company as executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing. Reporting to Informatica president and CEO Sohaib Abbasi, Entenmann will lead Informatica's worldwide marketing, channels and business development organizations.  Entenmann replaces Paul Albright, who served as Informatica's executive vice president and chief marketing officer since January of 2004.

"Over the last eight years, John successfully built and led an organization that delivered a comprehensive suite of enterprise software products now used by more than 10,000 customers," said Sohaib Abbasi, president and CEO of Informatica. "John is an accomplished leader with an insightful perspective on the broader data integration, business intelligence and analytics market. With a proven track record of leading world-class teams and delivering market-leading products, John is a very strong addition to Informatica's executive team. John is eminently qualified to drive Informatica's product strategy and strengthen our key alliances."

Entenmann most recently served as vice president of Business Intelligence products at Oracle Corporation. As general manager of the organization, Entenmann was responsible for product strategy and development across Oracle's entire Business Intelligence product suite, including Warehouse Builder. He also oversaw market strategy, competitive analysis and the formation of key relationships with various business intelligence vendors.

"I am very pleased to be joining a company with such tremendous assets in its customer base, market-leading products and strong management team," said Entenmann. "I look forward to helping Informatica successfully position itself as a leader in the large market opportunity emerging around data integration."

Previously at Oracle, Entenmann served as director of cross-platform user interface technology and also directed a team of user interface design and usability experts.  Prior to Oracle, he spent six years at Sun Microsystems managing Solaris operating system development projects.  Entenmann began his career at AT&T Bell Labs, where he was a member of the UNIX tools and ISDN software development teams.

Entenmann has a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, and a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Illinois.

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. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-970-179 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com/.

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