Informatica Unveils Strategic Roadmap For Industry’s Leading Enterprise Data Integration Platform

Will provide ultimate flexibility to integrate and deliver enterprise data virtually or physically—all from a single environment

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., February 22, 2005—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today unveiled its 18-month product roadmap for the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform, aimed at delivering the fullest array of enterprise data integration requirements within a single, services-oriented architecture. The roadmap will culminate in the ability for organizations to optimize how information is integrated and delivered across the extended enterprise, while ensuring they can dynamically access data precisely when, how and where it is needed.

“Informatica’s vision centers around enabling customers to virtually or physically integrate data seamlessly—all from the same platform,” said Girish Pancha, executive vice president of products at Informatica. “Giving customers the flexibility to integrate and deliver data in batch, change, real-time or ‘on the fly’ modes—or a blend of all four—will speed deployment of integration projects and broaden data-access capabilities to more users across the organization. With the realization of Informatica’s extensible architecture and comprehensive roadmap, customers will be able to leverage the industry’s broadest array of enterprise data integration capabilities for their data-centric initiatives within one platform.”

Informatica’s product strategy will be delivered in three major releases over the next two years, the first of which was announced today with the launch of PowerCenter Advanced Edition. (See today’s accompanying press release from Informatica.) Augmenting the industry’s leading data integration platform with robust metadata-analysis and data-ready reporting capabilities, PowerCenter Advanced Edition accelerates time-to-value and optimizes performance and productivity for complex integration projects.

With this comprehensive platform in place, the next two major PowerCenter releases, code-named “Zeus” and “Hercules,” will focus on further extending mission-critical enterprise and cross-enterprise deployment capabilities, and delivering a single, ‘full demand’ data integration platform for a broader number of users.

Zeus—Strengthening the foundation for mission-critical enterprise deployments
Scheduled for availability in the Fall of 2005, the Zeus release of the Informatica data integration platform will further deliver a secure and scalable infrastructure to enable both enterprise and cross-enterprise data integration.  In addition to PowerCenter’s current capabilities, Zeus will provide:

• Greater enterprise scalability and reliability. Informatica will deliver greater grid performance across multiple servers, and also provide further end-to-end optimization by leveraging relational technology.  In addition, Informatica will add more fault-tolerant and failover capabilities to PowerCenter to provide better support for today’s 24x7 global operations.
• Enhanced security and performance across firewalls. New features will include RSA encryption and compression for integrating data across enterprises and sharing key information with trading partners, outsourcing service providers and customers.
• Access to more data types in the enterprise. Support will be added for unstructured and semi-structured documents, including the standards-based exchange of SWIFT, FIX, HL7, UCCNET and other business-critical information.
• Expanded developer-community support. Support will be extended for Java coding, such as custom transformations written in Java, within the design environment with metadata support.

Hercules—Seamless virtual and physical integration within a single environment
Scheduled for availability in the Fall of 2006, the Hercules release represents the full realization of Universal Data Services, Informatica’s service-oriented architecture approach. This next-generation platform will allow customers to manage all their disparate data-centric integration initiatives—while fulfilling the promise of ‘full demand’ integration with no constraints on how, when or where data is captured, integrated and delivered.

Leveraging Informatica’s service-oriented architecture, Hercules will help customers to achieve:

• Greater business and IT responsiveness. Informatica will allow customers to integrate and deliver data in batch, change, real-time, or dynamically ‘on the fly’ directly from operational systems. Hercules will provide IT with the flexibility it needs to blend data integration and delivery approaches based on when, where and how data is needed, and maximize their responsiveness to the business.
• A fully extensible data integration architecture. With a fully extensible architecture, customers can easily extend a traditional data warehouse architecture to access all new and existing sources seamlessly, while fully leveraging the metadata, transformation engine and cleansing. Using the same architecture and metadata, IT can track data usage and then prototype before building to speed deployment and add value to the business. Hercules will significantly improve data management by providing a complete view into the virtual and physical data—all within the same architecture.
• Self-service for business users. A single data surface will be introduced that provides consistent and smooth access to integrated data, and can be leveraged to address the full range of integration-driven projects such as data warehousing, data migration, system consolidation and synchronization.
• Greater productivity across diverse communities and IT initiatives. Purpose-built user interfaces will be delivered working against a single design surface to speed productivity for different developer communities and provide an interface for third-party design tools and applications of data integration solutions.
• Decreased burden of ongoing maintenance. PowerCenter’s unique and already considerable metadata services will be further expanded to provide a rich metadata directory and greater search capabilities for reuse and improved data management.

“Informatica’s vision for the future of enterprise data integration aligns precisely with what we’re trying to accomplish at Ace Hardware,” said Mark Cothron, data warehouse architect at Ace Hardware Corp. “Currently, we’re using Informatica to integrate point-of-sale information with our wholesale and inventory data for a real-time view of our stores. The prospect of having greater flexibility to leverage the exact same platform for virtual, on-the-fly data integration, as well as physically accessing the data warehouse, is extremely compelling, as is the ability we’ll gain to continuously optimize the performance of our environment, no matter how complex it becomes.”

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, migrate and consolidate enterprise data across systems, processes and people to reduce complexity, ensure consistency and empower the business.  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 www.informatica.com.

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