Leading Companies Worldwide Choose Informatica

Informatica Corporation announced that 56 industry-leading companies around the world have adopted Informatica's PowerConnect for SAP R/3 or PowerConnect for PeopleSoft since the products' introduction late last year to transform their enterprise resource planning (ERP) data into valuable business insight. The newest additions to Informatica's marquee list of ERP customers include Delta Air Lines, Nike, Bell Atlantic, Putnam Investments, Enron and Phillips Semiconductors.

Other leading companies that have adopted PowerConnect include Autodesk, Longs Drugs, Mutual of Omaha, the Principal Financial Group, Qualcomm, Lucent, Purina Mills, UC Berkeley, Georgetown University, PacifiCorp, British American Tobacco Australia, GE Capital, Hewlett-Packard, Swiss Post, Nova Chemical, AXA Financial and Ernst & Young.

"The ability to access the wealth of information stored in ERP systems and combine it with e-business information and other key data from across the enterprise is critical to obtaining an accurate view of the company as a whole. Until Informatica launched PowerConnect last year, companies' options for accessing the critical data stored in their ERP systems were limited to a few stovepipe applications and 'data-marts-in-a-box' that provided relief of immediate pain, but didn't address the broader data-integration challenges they faced," said Diaz Nesamoney, president of Informatica. "Through PowerConnect, Informatica has brought enterprise data integration to a new level by enabling native, high-performance access to PeopleSoft and SAP R/3."

PowerConnect Delivers Valuable Insight to Industry Leaders

"To quickly identify and react to market trends, reduce costs and increase company operating efficiencies, Nova Chemicals relies on Informatica's PowerConnect software to integrate company-wide sales, marketing and financial information from SAP R/3 with data from outside the enterprise for analysis," said Bill Blinn, data warehouse architect team leader at Nova Chemicals, a major producer of polymers used to manufacture plastic and foam products. "Our traditional process of writing ABAP code to access R/3 data was expensive, error-prone and tedious to maintain. Simply put, PowerConnect has helped us achieve dramatic cost savings by shortening our development cycle, boosting the quality of service we provide to clients and helping us create a competitive market advantage."

"To better identify human resource trends affecting the Principal Financial Group's 17,000 employees, we selected Informatica's PowerConnect software to quickly and easily access the data and metadata stored in our Peoplesoft HR module for analysis," said Pam Hawhee, IT analyst-lead at Principal Financial Group, a Fortune 500 financial services company serving more than 11 million customers worldwide. "Whether it's evaluating employee information or identifying trends in our hiring process, Informatica can help us effectively leverage the HR information locked in PeopleSoft, and provide consistent and timely intelligence to our internal customers. This information can then be used to encourage proactive hiring and increase staff retention."

"Informatica's PowerConnect now provides us with the ability to dynamically go into SAP, understand the data and then directly load it into our corporate data warehouse," said Tom Grimmett, data warehouse manager at Autodesk, one of world's leading suppliers of PC design software and digital content-creation tools. "Using PowerConnect, we have been able to deliver fully functional iterations of our data marts in weeks, not months."

The PowerConnect product family enables companies to directly extract and integrate the vast amounts of corporate data stored in their ERP systems in order to leverage it for enterprise decision support. Both products complement and extend the reach of Informatica's PowerCenter enterprise dataintegration software, delivering a comprehensive platform to help companies transform data throughout their enterprise into valuable business insight.

About Informatica

Informatica is a leading provider of e-business analytic solutions, including the industry's most powerful enterprise data-integration software platform and analytic applications that help companies evaluate their performance across the entire e-business value chain. Many of the world's largest companies rely on Informatica to integrate data from systems across their extended enterprises for analysis in order to grow their business. Informatica currently maintains 751 customers across all industries, including Barnesandnoble.com, eBay, Netscape, CNET, Inktomi, Preview Travel, Priceline.com, Merrill Lynch, 3Com, Autodesk, Chevron, Delta Air Lines, Met Life, Mutual of Omaha, Sprint, MCI WorldCom, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Zurich Insurance and Polo Ralph Lauren. For more information, call 800-970-1179, or visit Informatica's Web site at www.informatica.com.

Contact Samantha Moore of Informatica Corporation, 650-687-6361 smoore@informatica.com.