Top Government Agencies Worldwide Choose Informatica For Data Integration

All Cabinet-level departments now rely on Informatica for strategic integration initiatives

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 26, 2004—As government agencies around the world move to consolidate and leverage rapidly mounting volumes of information, an overwhelming number of public agencies have turned to Informatica Corporation's (NASDAQ: INFA) market-leading data integration and visibility solutions to help drive operational efficiency, improve the performance of government programs, optimize fiscal responsibility and protect citizens. 

Further bolstering its position as the de facto standard for data integration within government, the most recent additions to Informatica's marquee customer list include the Defense Acquisition University, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Defense Logistics Agency, German Army, Hong Kong Housing Authority, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Ministerie van Defensie, State of Louisiana, Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Kingdom Department of Constitutional Affairs.

In the U.S. alone, Informatica's public-sector customers now include more than 100 organizations within the federal government.  This list includes all 15 Cabinet-level departments, such as the Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of Transportation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.  It also encompasses all four branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, including the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy. 

Other federal customers include the U.S. Census Bureau, Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Bureau Investigation, Federal Election Commission, Food and Drug Administration, General Services Administration, U.S. Geological Survey, Internal Revenue Service, NASA, National Institute of Health and the U.S. Postal Service. 

"Driven by the need for the improved exchange of information among government agencies, an ever-increasing focus on financial management, and the demand for new levels of responsiveness to diverse constituents, government agencies are feeling the 'integration imperative' like never before," said John Entenmann, executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica.

"As the world's largest collectors of information-most of which is stored in complex mainframe systems-government organizations face the most complex IT environments on the tightest IT budgets," Entenmann continued. "Informatica has become the data integration standard for so many governmental entities over time because we have consistently proven that we can help cost-effectively solve their most critical data integration challenges with commercial off-the-shelf software that eliminates the need for custom coding."

The Defense Acquisition University is one of these organizations, currently leveraging the Informatica data integration platform to help communities within the Department of Defense to make intelligent business and technology decisions.

Said Chuck Cameron, professor of financial management at the Defense Acquisition University, "We are focused on promoting greater performance and efficiencies throughout the organization, for which data integration is crucial to our success. With Informatica, we source data seamlessly from a broad number of our disparate systems - not all of which are under our direct control - and aggregate the information to better monitor and improve performance on a number of fronts."

Informatica is also used by 160 agencies across 43 states, including the Arkansas Department of Health, California Office of the Governor, City of Philadelphia, City and County of San Francisco, Colorado Department of Corrections, Commonwealth of Kentucky, District of Columbia, Los Angeles Police Department, Massachusetts Department of Education, Minnesota Department of Corrections, Missouri Department of Health, State of Hawaii, State of North Dakota, State of Oklahoma, State of Utah, State of Virginia, Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Around the world, other government customers include Australia's Department of Justice, Brazil's Ministry of Energy, Canada's Department of National Defense, Finland's Air Force, Ireland's Central Statistics Office, Italy's Ministry of Labor, China's Nanjing Local Taxation Bureau, Norway's Department of Defense, South Africa's Auditor General, the State of Israel, United Kingdom's Department for Work and Pensions, and the United Nations Development Programme.

 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.

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