Informatica Introduces Guaranteed Data to Dashboard Business Intelligence Challenge

Full-featured Business Intelligence Solution - Up and Running on a Company's Data in About an Hour

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 18, 2003 -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced its "Data to Dashboard" challenge, designed to demonstrate the rapid deployment, unique usability and next-generation business intelligence (BI) functionality of the Informatica PowerAnalyzer business intelligence platform. Accepting this challenge will help qualified companies to leverage the powerful analytics and reporting capabilities of PowerAnalyzer with their existing enterprise data in an unprecedented one hour's time.

Introduced in October 2002, PowerAnalyzer has changed the business intelligence landscape by providing a full range of BI functionality in a single-server, 100 percent Internet-centric solution. Real-time dashboards, ad-hoc querying, enterprise reporting, broadcasting and real-time alerting all exist in one unified platform.

"PowerAnalyzer is revolutionizing the economics of business intelligence with a single-license, completely Web-based approach, in stark contrast to other BI solutions that require multiple licenses and client-server administration," said Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica. "This challenge, with its promise of a one-hour 'data to dashboard' solution provides a compelling illustration of the power of our platform, which puts true business intelligence in the hands of a rapidly widening circle of non-traditional BI users."

Following a one-hour, ten-step process managed by Informatica at prospective customers' sites, qualified companies can familiarize themselves with PowerAnalyzer's capabilities and its completely Web-based interface using their own enterprise data. Organizations undertaking the challenge can then test-drive PowerAnalyzer with support from Informatica for 30 days.

Customers Succeed with the Challenge

Companies recently licensing PowerAnalyzer as the result of the challenge include mortgage banker Accredited Home Lenders and ORCOM, a leading provider of outsourced customer care and billing services.

"We didn't need the full 30 days to be won over by PowerAnalyzer because its ability to more effectively report on our entire loan origination process was apparent from the start," said Jason Mattioda, business intelligence manager at Accredited Home Lenders. "We're now in a position to replace a patchwork of reporting modules and create a unified, self-service analytic environment with exception-based reporting to get the right information out quickly to the right people."

"With Informatica's Data to Dashboard challenge, we were able to quickly understand PowerAnalyzer's capabilities," said Gireesh Sadasivan, chief software architect at ORCOM. "'Letting us drive' the Informatica business intelligence platform with our own enterprise data was very helpful, and by the end of the hour we were confident that we could install the product, and create and run Web-based reports by ourselves."

PowerAnalyzer works with any database or data integration environment, including the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform. It integrates with a broad range of data repository types including data warehouses, operational data stores, real-time data warehouses and data marts, and supports federated querying for single views across multiple databases. To help users solve business problems intuitively, PowerAnalyzer enhances its personalized dashboards, scorecarding and ad hoc querying with guided analysis through patent-pending analytic workflow technology. In addition, users are able to easily perform time-series analysis and engage in metrics management within the core product.

Prospects can learn more about the Data to Dashboard challenge by visiting http://www.informatica.com/info/panow , which provides links for qualification and registration.

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation 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 1,750 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 http://www.informatica.com.

Note: The Data to Dashboard challenge is open to qualified prospects that have signed an evaluation license to use PowerAnalyzer for a limited evaluation period. The Data to Dashboard challenge may not be available in all geographies. Informatica reserves the right to terminate or modify the challenge at any time and without notice. Contact Informatica to learn how to qualify for this offer and about any additional limitations related to the offer.

NOTE: Informatica, PowerAnalyzer, PowerCenter and Data to Dashboard are trademarks or registered 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.

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