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Informatica Corporate Overview
Informatica Corporation delivers data integration software and services to solve a problem facing most large organizations: the fragmentation of data across disparate systems. Informatica helps organizations gain greater business value from their information assets by integrating their enterprise data. Informatica’s open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity. With a proven 11-year track record of success, Informatica helps companies and government organizations of all sizes realize the full business potential of their enterprise data. That’s why Informatica is known as the data integration company.

Market Leaders Rely on Informatica:

79 of the Fortune 100 Companies
Leading Industries
Telecommunications: 18 of the top 23
Financial Services: 49 of the top 68
Healthcare: 9 of the top 11
Energy & Utilities: 25 of the top 34
Insurance: 18 of the top 22
Life Sciences: The 12 largest
Government - 100+ Federal and 80 state and local government agencies; government agencies in 20 countries

DM Review 2004 Readership Award
The readers of DM Review magazine named Informatica the leading data integration vendor in the magazine's 2004 Readership Award survey. The DM Review 2004 Readership Award ranked Informatica number one in data integration. more awards

Financial
IPO: April 1999 (Nasdaq: INFA) at $4/share (post-splits)
Stock splits: March 2000 (2-1) and December 2000 (2-1)
Secondary offering: September 2000
See Investor Relations for additional financial information

Acquisitions:
Similarity
Systems (January 2006)
Striva Corporation (September 2003)
Zimba (August 2000)
Influence Software (December 1999)

Revenue:
$267.4 million in fiscal year 2005
$219.7 million in fiscal year 2004
$206.4 million in fiscal year 2003
$195.4 million in fiscal year 2002

Products
Informatica products support a broad range of enterprise-wide data integration initiatives including data warehousing, data migration/consolidation, data synchronization, master data management, and cross-enterprise data integration. Using Informatica products, organizations can empower the business by providing near-universal access to holistic, consistent enterprise data. Informatica products reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity while increasing IT's productivity and responsiveness to the business. Moreover, by leveraging a services-oriented architecture, Informatica products help organizations maximize future flexibility and minimize long-term risk.

Informatica PowerCenter is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise at any speed. PowerCenter addresses complex, real-world problems such as migrating off legacy systems, consolidating application instances, and synchronizing data across multiple operational systems. PowerCenter helps organizations derive business value from all their data so that they can reduce IT costs and complexity, streamline business operations and processes, and drive revenue growth.

Informatica PowerExchange is a family of data access products that enables your IT organization to access all sources of enterprise data without having to develop custom data access programs.By being able to access mission-critical operational data wherever it may be stored and deliver it wherever and whenever it’s needed, your IT organization can maximize its limited resources and the business value of its dataPowerExchange also helps you access, load , and deliver data as part of the Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process to simplify the development and deployment of smaller departmental data marts and data warehouses as an incremental approach toward enterprise data warehousing.

The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), Best Practices Award 2004
Deutsche Börse Group's successful implementation of the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform has won a prestigious 2004 Leadership in Data Warehousing award from TDWI. The annual Best Practices Awards provide thousands of practitioners with best practices they can follow for data warehousing and business intelligence.

Ecosystem
Informatica customers and partners are supported by a comprehensive ecosystem created to ensure their ongoing success and maximum return on investment

Services
Informatica backs its industry-leading solutions with a comprehensive and customizable set of professional, education, and customer support services to meet the broad spectrum of customer needs. Highly skilled professionals are equipped to provide the resources needed to ensure successful project implementations. In addition, Informatica offers a Professional Certification program.

Alliances
Informati-ca has forged strong partnerships with many of the world's foremost technology and services providers—including best-of-breed vendors, industry-standard hardware providers, third-party development firms, and over 150 global/regional and off-shore system integrators—to ensure that customers can seamlessly deploy and operate best-of-breed data integration solutions.

Forums
Knowing that people value opportunities for information exchange, Informatica supports numerous venues—from our annual user conference and local user groups to our 20,000-member Developer Network—where customers, partners, and internal experts can engage in both formal and informal settings.