Informatica Named Certified Software Partner For PeopleSoft® Enterprise Performance Management

PeopleSoft customers can now leverage Informatica's data integration platform

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 19, 2004—Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced it has achieved PeopleSoft's (Nasdaq: PSFT) certified software partner status for PeopleSoft® Enterprise Performance Management. PeopleSoft has certified Informatica's data integration technology for use with its EPM suite of analytic applications. With this certification, customers can leverage their investment in Informatica technology to extract, transform and load data from PeopleSoft's applications into the PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse.

PeopleSoft customers can leverage the best-in-class, comprehensive data integration platform from Informatica to access data from various sources for use across multiple PeopleSoft solutions, including PeopleSoft Enterprise, EnterpriseOne, World and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) applications. Today's announcement ensures continued PeopleSoft support for more than 500 PeopleSoft EPM customers that are already using the unified, engine-based Informatica platform.

"Informatica's status as a certified software partner for EPM creates common benefit for our mutual customers," said Chris Leone, vice president of EPM product strategy at PeopleSoft. "As a result, customers can be ensured continued support for Informatica's data integration technology." 

"Our certified partner status ensures that our customers can continue to successfully leverage Informatica technology with PeopleSoft solutions, preserving the investment many existing customers have made in Informatica and PeopleSoft," said John Entenmann, executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica. "We are pleased to provide this important benefit to our joint customers."

Informatica delivers a leading enterprise data integration platform that helps customers reduce the time, cost and risk associated with complex integration initiatives. The company's data integration platform integrates data from a wide range of disparate sources—including legacy and mainframe systems—to meet the requirements of any enterprise data integration project.

 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 2,100 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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