Leading Analyst Firm Positions Informatica in “Leaders” Quadrant For Data Integration Tools Market

Only independent data integration software company positioned on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Axes

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,  November 29, 2006—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that Gartner has placed Informatica in the Leaders Quadrant in its November 22, 2006 report, "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2006*." According to Gartner, "Leaders" are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

"We are pleased to be positioned in the Leaders quadrant in Gartner's Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant. We believe this positioning reflects the market response to Informatica's singular focus on data integration, consistent track record of innovation that genuinely benefits customers, and commitment to a positive customer service and support experience," said Brian Gentile, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Informatica. "We will continue to execute on our vision and roadmap for enterprise data integration, including helping customers capitalize on the benefits of software-as-a-service and making data quality assurance an integral, embedded component in business processes."

A Complete Data Integration Solution
Informatica has long been an innovator in enterprise data integration, contributing to the definition, scoping the requirements and delivering the technology to address the increasing fragmentation of on-premise and off-premise enterprise data. 

Informatica's enterprise data integration solutions encompass a completeness of vision in addressing our customer's challenges.  The products available include PowerCenter, PowerExchange, Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer.

Informatica PowerCenter, the company's flagship product and the result of 13 years of genuine innovation, is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows organizations of all sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in almost any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise at any latency. PowerCenter addresses complex, real-world problems such as migrating off legacy systems, consolidating application instances, and synchronizing data across multiple operational systems.

Informatica PowerExchange, a broad set of intelligent data access tools based on a services-oriented architecture (SOA), provides on-demand access to data in all critical enterprise data systems, including mainframe, midrange, and file-based systems. Tightly integrated with Informatica PowerCenter, PowerExchange helps organizations leverage mission-critical operational data by making it available to people and processes without requiring manual coding of data extraction programs.

Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer are specifically designed to put the control of data quality processes in the hands of business professionals. With powerful data profiling and mapping capabilities in the hands of the business and IT, data analysts and data stewards work with Informatica Data Explorer to search and profile data from any source. With Informatica Data Quality users can find hidden data quality issues, gaps, inconsistencies and incompatibilities within and across data sources. The software delivers powerful data cleansing, data matching, reporting and data quality monitoring capabilities in a single solution. Data stewards use the technology to easily design, manage, deploy, and control departmental and enterprise-wide data quality initiatives.

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,650 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 (1-800-653-9871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

Note: Informatica, PowerCenter, PowerExchange, Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer are trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

*The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. (http://www.gartner.com/) and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.