REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 10, 2002 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced it will be extending its proven strength in enterprise data integration to address an emerging 'hot spot' for enterprise-class companies - how to bridge the gap between operational and analytic systems and leverage the full power of enterprise data, both real-time and historical, to power business analytics. Major technology innovations to Informatica's market-leading data integration platform, unveiled today with the debut of Informatica PowerCenterRT (see today's accompanying release), will offer business users access to critical information as business events occur, enabling them to better focus on driving performance across key business operations - from customer and supplier relationships to procurement practices, e-business initiatives and front- and back-office processes.

Paired with the real-time alerting capabilities of the Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and the packaged business metrics in Informatica Applications, PowerCenterRT allows information consumers to now receive critical information in real time as events occur in their transactional systems. This helps allow critical decisions to be made instantly.

“We believe that 2002 will mark a major transition in the enterprise software market, where close integration of transactional and business-analytics systems will deliver on the promise of the real-time enterprise,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “As business cycles accelerate, the ability for information consumers to gain instant access to corporat e information is becoming crucial. Our goal is to be a major player in this fast-emerging market, where efficiently architected products will deliver mission-critical results - and cobbled-together solutions will prove to be no-shows.”

“We are seeing increased interest from our enterprise customers for data integration technology that can smoothly combine real-time and historical data for the purpose of performance management,” said Dan Vesset, research manager, IDC. “Informatica appears to be in the right place at the right time, bolstered by viable technology and a proven ability to execute. Informatica is a company to watch in this emerging market.”

A Breakthrough in Data Integration

As businesses are being forced to become much more operationally efficient, enterprise-class companies are turning their attention toward implementing composite systems to drive key corporate performance initiatives, such as operating a zero latency enterprise (ZLE) and implementing real-time business activity monitoring (BAM). These initiatives fundamentally require enterprise data to be captured and analyzed in real time from a wide variety of enterprise applications, operational data stores (ODS) and static data warehouses.

While traditional data integration products, built on top of core extract/transform/load (ETL) engines, are ideally suited for building the historical data warehouses that today drive enterprise business intelligence initiatives, they don't go far enough toward addressing the real-time data integration challenge. To make the transition from conventional batch-oriented ETL to a real-time data integration engine, a number of technology enhancements are required:

• Support for “always-on, always listening” sessions
• Ability to accept real-time feeds of transactional data
• Ability to process data with zero latency and notify systems in real-time
• Ability to be transaction aware throughout the data integration flow

Informatica has addressed these new technology requirements head on with the unveiling today of Informatica PowerCenterRT, the first enterprise data integration software platform that enables companies to combine real-time data generated by transactional systems and messaging infrastructure with historical 'time-slice' information stored in enterprise data warehouses. PowerCenterRT sets a new standard for real-time data integration by delivering support for real-time enterprise application integration (EAI) message queues, “always on” sessions, zero latency pipelining, efficient processing of incrementally changed data, and core advancements in analytic engine architecture and delivery techniques.

With PowerCenterRT, companies can effectively bridge the gap between transactional and analytic systems, enabling users to get business-relevant information at the right time and empowering them to more effectively monitor and manage business performance. For more information about Informatica's new PowerCenterRT software for real-time data integration, please see today's accompanying release.

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the leading provider of business analytics software that helps Global 2000 companies monitor and manage the performance of key business operations across the enterprise. Informatica's business analytics products span the entire “build to buy” spectrum, enabling customers to buy packaged analytic applications or build their own best-of-breed data warehousing solutions -- whichever approach best suits their requirements and resources. More than 1,500 customers worldwide are using Informatica's data integration software to build and manage data warehouses. And, more than 30 leading technology innovators, including Motorola, ConAgra, Brunswick, Brocade, Hewlett-Packard and GE, are using Informatica's packaged analytic applications to successfully monitor and optimize business performance. For more information, call 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site http://www.informatica.com/

Samantha Moore

Informatica Corporation

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Colleen Haikes

TSI Communications

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