Informatica Reports Record Revenues of $96.0 Million
and 22 Percent License Revenue Growth

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 18, 2007—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Revenues for the third quarter of 2007 were $96.0 million, up 22 percent from the $78.9 million recorded in the third quarter of 2006. License revenues for the third quarter were $41.0 million, up 22 percent from the $33.6 million recorded in the third quarter of 2006. Net income for the third quarter, calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), was $14.4 million or $0.15 per diluted share, up more than 50 percent from net income of $9.4 million or $0.10 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2006. For the three months ended September 30, 2007, earnings per diluted share is calculated on an "if converted" basis, including the add-back of $1.1 million of interest and convertible notes issuance cost amortization, net of income taxes.

Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2007 was $18.8 million or $0.19 per diluted share, up more than 18 percent from $14.8 million or $0.16 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2006. Non-GAAP net income excludes charges related to purchased in-process research and development, share-based compensation, facilities restructurings, and the amortization of acquired technology and intangible assets.  A reconciliation of GAAP operating results and non-GAAP results is included below.

For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007, revenues were $277.4 million, an increase of 19 percent from the $232.8 million recorded for the first nine months of 2006. License revenues for the first nine months of 2006 were $120.4 million, up 17 percent from $103.2 million in the first nine months of 2006. GAAP net income for the first nine months of 2007 was $34.0 million or $0.36 per diluted share, up more than 50 percent from $22.3 million or $0.24 per diluted share in the first nine months of 2006. Non-GAAP net income for the first nine months of 2007 was $48.8 million or $0.50 per diluted share, up more than 21 percent from $39.0 million or $0.41 per diluted share in the first nine months of 2006.  For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, earnings per diluted share is calculated on an "if converted" basis, including the add-back of $3.3 million of interest and convertible notes issuance cost amortization, net of income taxes.

“Record third quarter revenues in all major geographic regions are clear evidence of our team’s discipline of execution,” said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and chief executive officer of Informatica.  “Continual product innovations have notably advanced our competitive position and further expanded our opportunities beyond our traditional market.”

Significant milestones achieved since July include:

• Signed repeat business with 194 customers.  Customers continue to derive considerable value from their investments in Informatica solutions.  Repeat customers included Banco Santander Brasil, Credit Suisse, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Börse Systems, FedEx Freight System, Globe Telecom, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, PayPal, Paramount Pictures Corporation, and the US Department of Education.
• Signed 53 new customers.  Informatica increased its customer base this quarter to 2,909 companies.  New customers include Cascade Corporation, China UnionPay, China International Marine Containers, Leapfrog Online Customer Acquisition, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Rand Merchant Bank, Sonic Corporation, Temasek Holdings, Tiger Brands, and the US Department of Labor.
• Announced Worldwide Partner Agreement with Cognos.  Cognos will OEM Informatica data quality software in conjunction with its performance management solutions.  The companies also announced they will expand their go-to-market cooperation in the field for data integration to provide complete best-of-breed solutions.
• Announced Informatica Data Quality Assessment for Salesforce.  Informatica announced its newest addition to Informatica On Demand services, Informatica Data Quality Assessment for salesforce.com, which delivers dynamic scorecards on the quality of data in salesforce.com implementations.
• Announced Informatica Integration Pack for Salesforce.  The Integration Pack is a limited-use, subscription-based suite of Informatica products that enables integration between salesforce.com and on-premise applications, databases and files.
• Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, “Leaders have significant mind share in the market, and resources skilled with their tools are readily available. These vendors establish market trends, to a large degree, by providing new functional capabilities in their products, and by identifying new types of business problems where data integration tools can bring significant value.”
• Earned top rank in TNS Custom Research Data Integration Software survey.  Informatica data integration products ranked first in quality overall, and the company was a top performer in customer satisfaction in the 2007 TNS Custom Research, Inc. Data Integration Software survey.

Conference Call and Webcast
Informatica will be discussing its third quarter 2007 results on a conference call today beginning at 2:00 p.m. PDT.  A live Webcast of the conference call will be available at www.informatica.com/investor.  A replay of the call will also be available by dialing 617-801-6888, reservation number 87540996.

• Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
• Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
• Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
• Supplemental Metrics

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. Using Informatica products, companies gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets.  More than 2,900 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of any complexity and scale.  For more information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit http://www.informatica.com/.

*  Diluted EPS is calculated under the "if converted" method for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007. This includes the add-back of $1.1 and $3.3 million of interest and convertible notes issuance cost amortization, net of income taxes for the above periods, respectively.

Non-GAAP Financial Information
To supplement the company's condensed consolidated financial statements presented on a GAAP basis, Informatica uses non-GAAP financial measures of net income and net income per share. These measures are adjusted to exclude the charges and expenses discussed above.  The company believes the disclosure of such non-GAAP financial measures is appropriate to enhance an overall understanding of its historical financial performance.  These adjustments to the company's GAAP results are made with the intent of providing both management and investors a more complete understanding of the company's underlying operational results, trends, and marketplace performance.  Informatica believes that the inclusion of these non-GAAP financial measures provides consistency and comparability with its historical financial results, as well as comparability to similar companies in the company's industry, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors.  In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures are among the primary indicators management uses as a basis for its planning and forecasting of future periods.  The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net income or net income per share prepared in accordance with GAAP in the U.S.

Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Informatica’s opportunity for growth in the data integration market, and efforts being conducted with strategic partners. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from the results described in this press release.  The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ include, among others, risks related to (1) competition with larger companies that have longer operating histories and greater financial, technical, marketing, and other resources; (2) uncertainty in the state of IT spending and the continued growth in the market for data integration solutions in general; and (3) lack of control regarding our strategic partners’ devotion of adequate resources to promote, sell, implement, and support our products, as well as those risks and uncertainties included under the caption “Risk Factors” in Informatica’s report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, which are on file with the SEC and are available on Informatica’s investor relations website at http://www.informatica.com/.  All information provided in this release is as of October 18, 2007 and Informatica undertakes no duty to update this information.

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