Informatica Customers Identify Top Trends In Enterprise Data Integration At Informatica World 2005

Survey administered to record-attendance crowd at annual conference highlights broadening role and increasing centralization of data integration initiatives across the enterprise

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 20, 2005—Seventy-seven percent of IT executives surveyed by Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) at its annual customer and partner conference this month say they are or soon will be using Informatica data integration solutions outside of traditional data warehousing for broader integration initiatives such as system consolidation, data migration and data synchronization. An overwhelming percentage of respondents—ninety-four percent—also view data integration as an increasingly critical technology as more companies maintain key corporate data outside the firewall due to outsourcing. In addition, sixty-three percent of those surveyed already have or are moving towards a centralized, enterprise-wide approach to data integration.

 These and other trends in the data integration industry were identified in a customer survey conducted this month at the Informatica World 2005 user conference in Washington, D.C.— which experienced an impressive seventy percent increase in registered attendees over last year.

“The attendees polled in this year’s survey possess some of the world’s fastest-growing and most advanced data integration implementations,” said John Entenmann, executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica. “The Informatica World 2005 survey results show that businesses are increasingly taking their integration solutions beyond the corporate firewall in support of outsourcing, beyond the data warehouse to a unified platform for all data-driven projects, and beyond the department level to the entire enterprise. They chose Informatica in all these endeavors because of the flexibility, ease of use and performance built into our architecture.”

When asked to rank the selection criteria for an enterprise data integration solution, sixty-nine percent of those surveyed identified “performance” as the prime criteria, followed in descending order by “ease of use,” “unified platform” and “price.” Eighty percent of participants also indicated that federated-querying capabilities, or enterprise information integration (EII), are a valuable complement to traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) technology.

Respondents also indicated a larger number of companies are establishing enterprise integration competency centers (ICCs), with fifty-two percent either possessing or planning an ICC. And although only a smaller percentage of companies are currently doing some form of outsourcing, of the attendees currently engaged, thirty-seven percent said they use a data integration platform to manage the flow of critical data between themselves and their outsourcing service providers.

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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 2,200 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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