Informatica Innovation Awards Honor Ground-Breaking Implementations In Enterprise Data Integration

Seventh-annual awards spotlight companies around the globe achieving significant business value from Informatica-powered solutions

INFORMATICA WORLD 2006, San Francisco, Calif., May 25, 2006—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today presented the 2006 Informatica Innovation Awards to CEMEX S.A. de C.V., eircom, Fairfax County Public Schools, KPN Mobile The Netherlands BV, Nationwide Insurance and Westpac Banking Corporation. The winning organizations were recognized by Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO of Informatica, who presented the awards at this year’s Informatica World 2006 in San Francisco.

“Companies are continuing to broaden their use of enterprise data integration solutions, implementing innovative data migration, metadata management and data quality projects to achieve new types of business and IT value,” said Brian Gentile, executive vice president and CMO of Informatica. “This year’s Innovation Award winners and their partners are leveraging data integration to enable customer intimacy, aggressive growth strategies, enterprise-wide data governance, data-on-demand, cost-effective regulatory compliance and more. We salute their successes and are proud to have played a part.”

The 2006 Informatica Innovation Award winners are:

Cross-Enterprise Data Integration: Fairfax County Public Schools
One of the largest educational data warehouses in the nation, the Education Decision Support Library (EDSL) enables the 164,000-student Fairfax County Public Schools system to assess student achievement, improve instructional decision-making and optimize its allocation of resources. The comprehensive repository is powered by Informatica PowerCenter, which integrates data across multiple internal and external data sources, including the Virginia Standards of Learning and SAT, so administrators can track student information, from No Child Left Behind-mandated test scores to student enrollment and grades. Due to its success, EDSL is offered nationwide to help other educational organizations achieve similar results. For districts that do not have the resources to manage EDSL internally, Fairfax County Public Schools has adopted a software-as-a-service model, working with Insystech, an application service provider that offers a cost-effective hosted approach.

Data Governance: Nationwide Insurance
Faced with contradictory data from more than 200 applications, financial services-powerhouse Nationwide Insurance implemented Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition as the backbone of its ambitious FOCUS finance data management platform.  A two-year undertaking on the part of Nationwide and Deloitte Consulting LLP, FOCUS now consolidates data from legacy applications and captures and manages master data and metadata across the entire FOCUS ecosystem, from source systems to the master data management system. The capabilities for leveraging master data built into FOCUS have streamlined Nationwide’s financial reporting and are providing the end-to-end data lineage tracing required for comprehensive data governance, effective risk management and compliance.

Data Quality: eircom
Seeking to improve accuracy and save costs when transitioning legacy telephone directory data between systems, Ireland’s largest telecommunications company, eircom, implemented a rules-based data standardization process that reduced the amount of manual re-keying by 75 percent. The project’s success hinged on the Informatica Data Quality product’s ability to profile the source data to identify potential business-rule issues and quickly determine appropriate actions. The lessons learned on the initial project have now been applied to subsequent name/address management projects at eircom, such as “single view of customer” and compliance-related projects.  Most importantly, the Informatica Data Quality product has allowed eircom’s business team (rather than IT) to develop these processes, supporting a very business-focused view of information and information management.

Data Migration and Synchronization: CEMEX, S.A. de C.V.
CEMEX S.A. de C.V. , the world’s third-largest cement company, decided to standardize worldwide on SAP to support its unique global business processes and aggressive growth strategy. Led by SoftTek Mexico, CEMEX used Informatica PowerCenter to migrate data from hundreds of legacy systems around the world and align the data with the new business processes in its SAP applications. Despite the complex data and numerous systems involved, the combination of a robust migration and synchronization tool and proven migration methodology enabled the project to be completed within months, thus providing CEMEX with a single ERP environment for its growing global operations.

Metadata Management: Westpac Banking Corporation
One of Australia’s top banks, Westpac Banking Corporation has significantly improved visibility into its data lineage to help drive reconciliation and regulatory compliance. Working with global management and technology consultants and Informatica partner BearingPoint, Westpac leveraged Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition and its metadata management offering to create a comprehensive metadata repository.
The metadata management components of PowerCenter Advanced Edition have provided a basis for an enterprise-wide view of data lineage that services the needs of both business and technical users – demonstrating end-to-end data lineage; enabling fast, accurate impact analysis; and supporting enterprise-wide data stewardship.  Armed with separate customized user interfaces to the repository, both business and technical users access the same copy of the metadata and are thus always synchronized.

Data Warehousing: KPN Mobile The Netherlands BV
KPN Mobile The Netherlands BV, one of the Netherlands’ largest telecommunications companies, has improved customer satisfaction and increased profitability through a comprehensive customer lifecycle management program that leverages single customer views, customer segmentation and analytics. Anchoring the process is Informatica PowerCenter, which provisions KPN’s enterprise data warehouse and provides unified information to operational marketing and sales applications. Implemented by Informatica partner Getronics, PowerCenter has slashed the time to process call-detail records by more than 50 percent, helped cut data warehouse maintenance costs in half, and contributed directly to reduced customer churn and higher customer profitability rates.

About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica, companies can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,500 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 (1-800-970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

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