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Informatica Collaborates With BEA to Provide Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications

BEA WebLogic Brings Scalable J2EE Infrastructure for Real-Time, Mobile Enterprise Analytics to Customers Worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO, Informatica World 2001, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA - news) today announced a strategic relationship with BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, under which Informatica has licensed BEA WebLogic® as a key technology in its newly introduced Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications 5. The combined solution allows customers to quickly deploy scalable and flexible infrastructures that enable a 360-degree view of the enterprise that is critical for maximizing business efficiency, performance and profitability.

The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) is a single infrastructure solution with complete application management, portal, integration and Web Services capabilities. BEA WebLogic provides an Internet-based architecture to business intelligence solutions, which are typically based on client-server legacy architectures. The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform provides significant technology advantages, including load balancing, fault tolerance, standards-based authentication, and broad deployment to an unprecedented set of users, while also leveraging the investments that CIOs have made on J2EE infrastructure.

Informatica has joined the growing list of vendors participating in the BEA Portal Star Solution. The BEA Portal Star Solution provides a designation for partners that offer complementary products or services, such as Informatica's analytic software, that will be tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0. By participating in BEA's partner initiative, joint customers will benefit from BEA WebLogic Portal's strict adherence to Java standards, open portal framework and integration services.

``BEA WebLogic has become the e-business platform of choice for many of our customers,'' said Gaurav Dhillon, CEO of Informatica. ``The scalability and flexibility of BEA WebLogic, combined with the Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications, will provide our customers with a powerful solution that will bring business-critical information into the hands of decision-makers in real-time.''

``Informatica's Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications, built on BEA WebLogic, will bring customers integrated voice, wireless and Web access to analytics dashboards and communications tools,'' said Alfred Chuang, BEA founder, president and CEO. ``The BEA WebLogic industry standard J2EE infrastructure will bring Informatica's enterprise customers the scalability and flexibility needed for today's competitive market.''

About Informatica

Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica provides the industry's only integrated enterprise analytics suite, including a powerful data integration platform, cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,370 customers, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze, personalize and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance.

Our list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Brocade, Brunswick, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, France Telecom, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Nokia, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and Vizzavi. For more information, call [phone], or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com.

Note: Informatica, PowerCenter Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Analytics Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and jurisdictions throughout the world. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

For further information please contact: Samantha Moore of Informatica Corporation, [phone], mobile, [phone], [e-mail]; or Colleen Haikes of TSI Communications, [phone], mobile, [phone], [e-mail], for Informatica Corporation.

SOURCE: Informatica Corporation

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