Informatica Positioned In “Leader” Quadrant For ETL Market
Leading analyst firm evaluated Informatica for completeness of vision and ability to execute
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
May 16, 2005—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that the company was positioned in the "Leader" quadrant in Gartner's May 11, 2005 report, "Magic Quadrant for ETL, 1H05." According to Gartner, leaders are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
"We are pleased to be positioned by Gartner in the leader quadrant of the ETL magic quadrant. We believe this recognition is a tribute to Informatica's unmatched track record for technology innovation," said John Entenmann, executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica. "Further extending our decade-long technology leadership, we recently redefined the requirements for data integration with the delivery of PowerCenter Advanced Edition and outlined the strategic direction of our product roadmap. On the heels of two consecutive quarters of record financial results, Informatica continues to demonstrate its momentum for continued growth as the leading, independent data integration vendor."
Informatica PowerCenter provides a unified enterprise data integration platform to help organizations access, transform, and integrate data from a large variety of systems and deliver that information to other transactional systems, real-time business processes and people. PowerCenter supports the activities of a business' integration competency center (ICC) and other integration experts by serving as the foundation for data warehousing, data migration, consolidation, single view, metadata management and synchronization. By enabling enterprises to create a single, consistent enterprise-wide information resource, PowerCenter helps them reduce IT costs and complexity, harness new technologies and empower the business.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of 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 http://www.informatica.com/.
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The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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