Scottish Power Selects Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition For Key Legacy-Migration Projects

International energy company will leverage Informatica data integration platform to establish greater visibility and management of its data through new billing system

LONDON, August 9, 2005—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that Scottish Power, an international energy company supplying electricity and gas to customers in the U.S. and U.K., has selected Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition to manage the migration of its entire base of U.K. industrial and commercial customers to a new billing platform.  This centralized billing platform will replace six legacy applications, enabling Scottish Power to improve customer service, reduce IT costs, meet regulatory-compliance obligations and grow its business.

Previously, Scottish Power had relied upon custom hand-coding techniques to access and migrate critical customer data. To help contain costs, and improve the control and auditability of customer data due to Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, the organisation required a more automated, accurate method for migration.

“Integrating our industrial and commercial customer-billing data is key to helping Scottish Power effectively service its market.  Following extensive research, Informatica’s solution provided a clear fit for our requirements, beating its competitors on technical merit, cost and ability to deliver value back to our business,” said Derek Johnston, IT director, U.K. division at Scottish Power. “With PowerCenter Advanced Edition, we see the benefits of a single platform that addresses the full data integration lifecycle—incorporating metadata-analysis and reporting capabilities into the market’s leading data integration platform.  We are already deriving significant value from our initial implementation, and expect to continue achieving greater returns.”

An international leader in the energy industry listed on both the London and New York Stock Exchanges, Scottish Power provides electricity or gas services to around six million homes and businesses in the western U.S. and across the U.K.  In the U.S., Scottish Power’s activities also extend to coal mining and gas storage/hub services, and the supply of gas to customers in the U.K.

“Efficiently delivering market-leading customer service is critical to success in the competitive U.K. utility industry,” said Dave Berry, senior vice president of EMEA at Informatica. “Our partnership will help Scottish Power to achieve better visibility of customer data at the heart of its business, reducing IT cost and complexity and delivering the highest level of service to customers.”

PowerCenter Advanced Edition is the market’s most robust platform for enterprise data integration, expanding the definition of a data integration platform by incorporating metadata-analysis and data-ready reporting, cost-effective grid computing and team-based development capabilities into a single offering. With PowerCenter Advanced Edition, companies can realize the benefits of a single platform that addresses the full data integration lifecycle—helping them drive productivity and lower IT maintenance costs, and gain a substantial cost advantage with a rapid out-of-the-box experience.

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, visualize, and audit their enterprise information assets to help improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 2,250 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs. For more information, visit www.informatica.com.

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