Tennessee Valley Authority Implements Informatica Data Integration Platform

America’s largest public power company implements PowerCenter to help optimize business processes

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 9, 2005—Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federal corporation and the nation’s largest public power provider, has successfully completed the initial stages of implementing the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform.

“TVA is striving to leverage technology to help support its mission of sustainable economic development of the valley and to supply affordable, reliable power,” said David Harrison, IT project manager for TVA’s power system optimization project. “Integration offers us the ability to optimize all our business and real-time power system processes to make us a more efficient and reliable partner to the people of the valley.  To reach our goals, we are implementing an enterprise-wide data integration strategy, with Informatica’s data integration platform as a component of that strategy.”

“Informatica is widely recognized as the de facto standard for data integration within the federal government,” said John Entenmann, executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica. “We are pleased the Tennessee Valley Authority has joined the growing list of public organizations leveraging the performance and scalability of the Informatica data integration platform to further improve the services provided to their constituents.”

Informatica PowerCenter helps accelerate enterprise data integration initiatives, enabling enterprises to reduce IT costs and complexity, harness new technologies and ensure a single, consistent enterprise-wide view of information. PowerCenter is also designed to access, transform and integrate data from a large variety of enterprise systems and deliver that information to other transactional systems, real-time business processes, and to the business for decision-making.

About TVA
TVA is the nation’s largest public power provider and is completely self-financed.  TVA provides power to large industries and 158 power distributors that serve approximately 8.5 million consumers in seven southeastern states. TVA operates fossil-fuel, nuclear, and hydropower plants, and also produces energy from renewable sources. It manages the nation’s fifth-largest river system to minimize flood risk, maintain navigation, provide recreational opportunities, and protect water quality in the 41,000-square-mile watershed.

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 (800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.