Informatica PowerAnalyzer 4 Garners Strong Industry Support.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003

Global Technology Partners, Industry Analysts and Systems

Integrators Give High Marks to Groundbreaking Innovations

in the Latest Release of Informatica's BI Platform

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced wide-ranging support from key technology infrastructure partners, industry analysts and systems integrators for significant innovations in the newest release of its business intelligence platform, PowerAnalyzer 4. (See today's accompanying news release from Informatica.)

Informatica has introduced five significant technology innovations in PowerAnalyzer 4: overall usability enhancements, unparalleled integration with Microsoft(R) Excel, guided-analysis capabilities, integrated performance-management capabilities, and true real-time awareness. Geared toward extending business intelligence capabilities to a broader base of users within an organization, PowerAnalyzer 4's new features have elicited a powerful response from across the industry.

-- Technology Infrastructure Partners --

Microsoft

"We are excited about the breakthroughs Informatica has made using Microsoft .NET and Web Services to allow information workers to utilize the full power of Excel within their PowerAnalyzer business intelligence environment," said Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president, .NET Platform Strategy, Microsoft. "This will benefit everyone throughout an organization -- not just the business intelligence 'power users' -- since Excel is the analytical tool of choice for information workers."

BEA

"As the world's leading application infrastructure software company, BEA is excited about our partnership with Informatica and the new features in PowerAnalyzer 4 that will accelerate usage and deployment, and provide a low total cost of ownership solution," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. "PowerAnalyzer leverages the enterprise scalability and performance that BEA WebLogic provides, along with WebLogic Integration, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Workshop -- helping Informatica realize the goal of BI for the masses."

i2

"In a constantly changing business environment, open-standards architectures enable businesses to deploy best-of-breed solutions for the market. We at i2 have built our supply chain operating services with analytics services based on Informatica's PowerAnalyzer because it is the only BI platform committed to embracing the Internet-centric standards of J2EE," said Pallab Chatterjee, president, i2 Solutions Operations. "With the PowerAnalyzer 4 release, our development teams will be able to further extend the PowerAnalyzer user interface and back-end server functionality with the extensive APIs that Informatica has now made available. Using PowerAnalyzer 4, i2 can provide customers with better visibility into their supply chain."

-- Industry Influencers --

IDC

"Informatica, a leader in the data integration software required for business intelligence and analysis, has extended its offerings to provide an easily usable, broadly deployable business intelligence platform," said Henry Morris, vice president applications and information access, IDC. "Informatica PowerAnalyzer is distinguished by its dashboard-driven interface, rich process support via guided analysis, leverage of Excel, ability to deploy in both mobile and Web-based environments, integration with other enterprise infrastructure including PowerCenter, and its foundation on an integrated, scalable, standards-compliant (J2EE) analytics server. The result should be new advances in the quality and user accessibility of key business metrics and performance indicators via analytic applications."

Aberdeen Group

"Informatica is not only delivering a single, Web-based server containing the predominant engines of BI -- it has also figured out how to progressively disclose the capability of those engines as users become more versed in and more comfortable with the environment," said Bob Moran, vice president, Enterprise Business Applications and Analytics, Aberdeen Group. "By combining the worlds of BI and productivity software, Informatica has made a strong contribution to removing the inhibitors that have been keeping analytics and reporting out of the hands of most business users."

Ventana Research

"The requirements for business intelligence demand more in empowering users to access, analyze and deliver information in simple, but sophisticated tools," said Mark Smith, CEO and senior vice president of research, Ventana Research. "Informatica PowerAnalyzer provides visual workflows for guided analysis, and robust monitoring and alerting for all types of users in an organization who can now interact with information efficiently."

-- Systems Integration Partners --

EDS

"EDS is continually looking to drive improvements in productivity, collaboration and service for our clients," said Dan Schwartz, director of the CRM and BI practice, EDS Solutions Consulting. "Informatica's PowerAnalyzer 4 technology can assist EDS in serving its clients, particularly with the analytic workflow feature that provides guided analysis with the ability to incorporate best practices in a visual manner. This allows users across an organization to share information, as well as contribute quickly and easily to a collaborative decision-making process."

Core Integration Partners

"PowerAnalyzer 4 is a groundbreaking release for Informatica with a lot of well-justified functionality. We are very excited to roll this business intelligence platform out to our customers," said Dan Linstedt, CTO of Core Integration Partners. "The usability enhancements are powerful, promising to deliver BI into the hands of many more users across an organization, as is the unparalleled level of integration with Excel. Also, PowerAnalyzer's unique real-time-aware dashboards are likely to see fast-growing demand as this year progresses."

Wipro

"The Informatica PowerAnalyzer 4 release has taken operational and real-time reporting to a new level, with the ability to proactively deliver information in real time -- without manual refresh -- via EAI message queues such as webMethods and Java Messaging Services," said Vivek Bhasin, general manager, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Wipro. "Real time is the direction the market is heading, and Wipro Technologies sees more of our customers asking about it in their implementations. Informatica is ahead of the curve in this respect with PowerAnalyzer 4, and well positioned to augment its strength in data warehouse reporting to capitalize on real-time and business activity monitoring as they move into the mainstream."

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

"With its release of PowerAnalyzer 4, Informatica has delivered an extremely usable, highly flexible business intelligence platform -- one that our customers can use to drive the power of BI even further across their organizations," said Brian Queenin, vice president, global leader -- Business Intelligence at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. "The flexibility of the PowerAnalyzer platform -- which allows users to select specific formats for presentation, integrates real-time updates, and allows for timely broadcasts via e-mail and other media -- can have broad appeal to our clients looking to further expand their business intelligence capabilities."

Tata Consulting Services

"The powerful user-interface enhancements in the PowerAnalyzer 4 release will improve the product's ease of use -- enabling a much broader base of end users," said Shrirang Bapat, West eBusiness leader at Tata Consulting Services (TCS). "The advances in navigation and visually rich features will do a lot to make everyone -- business and IT -- more productive and responsive at the end of the day."

Saama

"With its Internet-centric architecture and the powerful new enhancements in the latest release, PowerAnalyzer 4 is now in the major league of business intelligence tools," said Shekar Prabhakar, vice president, marketing at Saama, a premier business intelligence system integrator. "We were particularly impressed with the unique 'embedded Excel' capability, which can provide the best of both 'what if' analysis and query and reporting from a single interface. This will provide a huge productivity gain for the large number of our customers using BI and Excel on a regular basis."

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the leading provider of business analytics software that helps Global 2000 companies monitor and optimize the performance of key business operations across the enterprise. Using Informatica, companies can improve their operational efficiency, increase customer profitability and streamline supply chain operations. With more than 1,700 companies worldwide, Informatica provides organizations with business analytics products that span their end-to-end needs for data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence -- whichever best suits their requirements and resources. For more information, call 650/385-5000 (800/970-1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com.

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