Oakwood Worldwide Powers Business Agility With Informatica Data Integration

Global leader in corporate housing standardizes on Informatica for consolidated business views and more productive customer interactions worldwide

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 5, 2005—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) today announced Oakwood Worldwide, the world's largest corporate housing and multifamily property management firm, has standardized on the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform for enterprise-wide data consolidation, synchronization and migration. In powering near-real time views of global operations and sales, the Informatica platform has helped Oakwood increase employee efficiency, strengthen customer relationships, reduce risk, and respond more effectively to new business opportunities.

“Informatica has helped Oakwood create an agile infrastructure for implementing new ideas and responding to new demands without technology limitations,” said Vinnie Le, vice president, information systems at Oakwood Worldwide. “With the Informatica platform, employees and customers are now empowered with instant information across multiple diverse systems, leading to more efficient business processes and better informed decisions. We’ve also eliminated considerable redundancy and risk from our IT environment, and are able to closely manage key information processes, making us a more nimble organization all around.”

At the center of its new agile infrastructure, Oakwood uses PowerCenter in concert with Informatica PowerExchange mainframe access software to bi-directionally integrate data between legacy systems and other enterprise applications. In leveraging the consolidated information, decision-makers in sales, marketing, operations and finance gain visibility into apartment availability, global sales and marketing operations, building maintenance status, customer accounts and invoicing, and other critical processes.

For customer-service purposes, live operational data is replicated and synchronized by PowerExchange in near-real time between Oakwood’s legacy environment and its Siebel CRM solution to help drive more meaningful customer interactions. Customers are provided with information feeds and reports regarding their account status and activities with Oakwood, as well as with online invoices.

“Not content to rest on its well-earned reputation for service, Oakwood is reinforcing its leadership position with seamless information processes that enable higher-quality customer and employee experiences,” said Karen Steele, vice president of corporate marketing at Informatica. “In leveraging the Informatica platform for data synchronization and many types of bi-directional data movement, Oakwood is at the forefront of leveraging data integration technology to create and drive efficient new business procedures that result in increased competitiveness and customer value.”

Oakwood Worldwide (www.oakwood.com) is the largest global provider of corporate housing and serviced apartments, with locations throughout the U.S., the U.K. and Asia.

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 2,300 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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