Informatica Signs Distributor Agreement With Digital China

Also plans to open Beijing office and localize products to address emerging Chinese data integration market

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 25, 2004—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that it is significantly expanding its market presence in the greater China region to address that country's growing demand for data integration solutions. This includes signing a distributor agreement with Digital China Holdings Ltd., the largest information technology distribution and solutions company in China, and plans to open an office in Beijing. 

"The second-largest economy in Asia Pacific, China is fertile ground for information solutions that maximize business and government efficiency and enhance global competitiveness," said Manny Galvez, vice president for Asia-Pacific at Informatica. "Informatica has already signed license agreements with several dozen marquee companies in China.  We are now teaming with Digital China to further our reach by leveraging the company's unmatched market presence and longstanding customer relationships across the entire greater China region."

Initially, Informatica and Digital China will focus on opportunities for leveraging Informatica data integration solutions in the telecommunications, financial, manufacturing and governmental markets. Informatica plans to localize its data access, data integration and business visualization products for the Chinese market. 

"Digital China has grown to become one of the most successful companies in China, fueled in part by forging relationships with key technology vendors such as our new affiliation with Informatica," said Liu Yang, sales director at Digital China Holding Ltd. "We believe our broad market footprint and key customer relationships will complement and help assure Informatica's success as we leverage our network to grow this business into a large operation over the next several years."

Informatica currently has more than 35 customers in China, including the China Export and Credit Insurance Corp., China Merchants Bank, China Mobile, China National Tax Bureau, China Telcom, China Unicom, COSCO Shanghai, Guangdong Development Bank, HongKong Hospital Authority, HongKong Security Exchange, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Sony Shanghai and Taikang Insurance.

With over 15 years of experience in China's IT market, Digital China is a pioneer in software development. Its self-developed CTAIS taxation solutions gained wide usage and application in state tax bureaus in over 100 PRC cities nationwide for tax collection and management. Others proprietary solutions include Sm@artBanking and Sm@rtBoss, tailor-made for banking and telecommunications respectively, were also widely applied by its customers. Digital China was ranked the leading position in financial and government sectors and third in telecommunications (IDC 2002).

 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 (1-800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the company's plans to localize its products for the Chinese market and plans to open an office in Beijing.  Informatica's intentions with regard to the foregoing plans may be affected by a number of factors, which include general business and market conditions in China, and management's determination of alternative needs and uses of the company's resources.  Further risks are detailed from time to time in Informatica's SEC reports, including its Form 10-K Report and Form 10-Q filings.  Informatica assumes no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements in this release.

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