Informatica And Deloitte Consulting Host Web Seminar On Emerging “Business-Time Integration Architecture”

Jane Griffin of Deloitte Consulting and Informatica to discuss the new integration imperative: unified access to all data types across the enterprise

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 14, 2005—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced it will host a free Web seminar on August 10, titled “Building the Business-Time Integration Architecture.”Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, Jane Griffin, an internationally respected leader in data integration and business intelligence, will discuss the critical need for enterprise information architectures to unify access to both unstructured and structured data for a truly holistic view of the business.

According to Griffin, true enterprise-wide information integration requires the melding of data integration technologies, including enterprise information integration (EII), with business intelligence so that users can leverage all enterprise data—not just structured data within the data warehouse—for improved business visibility and decision-making. A Business-Time Integration Architecture enables need-based access to the wealth of unstructured information that resides across the enterprise—such as XML documents, email, Word files, spreadsheets, presentations and .PDF documents—in addition to structured data from data warehouses, operational data stores and operational systems.

“In so many companies, structured and unstructured data never meet,” said Griffin. “Yet the technologies now exist to bring them together and deliver comprehensive views in ‘business time’—that is, precisely when and how they’re needed. I look forward to this event with Informatica to spread the word on effective solutions for integrating all forms of enterprise data in a seamless manner.”

Following Griffin’s presentation, Informatica will present a technical perspective demonstrating how its upcoming product release, code-named Zeus, will support unified access to complex combinations of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data, leveraging both data federation and physical data integration capabilities.

“As more of our customers and partners move toward the enterprise-wide information integration model advocated by Ms. Griffin, we are committed to supporting our customers with a flexible, high-availability data integration platform,” said John Entenmann, executive vice president, corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica. “Deloitte Consulting is playing a valuable thought-leadership role in this important area, which promises to radically redefine the data integration and business intelligence landscape.”

Griffin is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, where she is responsible for managing its Information Dynamics practice.  With over 30 years of IT experience, Jane serves on several partner advisory boards for data management vendors and maintains high-level relationships with leading vendors in the business intelligence and data management space.  She is an internationally respected in the field of data integration and business intelligence. She authors a monthly column in Data Management Review, has published over 150 articles in various trade journals, and speaks internationally on customer relationship management, data management, data warehousing, repositories, data modeling, data quality, consensus building and enterprise-wide business modeling.

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 2,200 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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