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Latest Bulletin Also Gives Informatica High Marks for Evolving Company's Focus to New 'Promising Business Analytics Opportunities'

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), the leading provider of business analytics software, today announced that it has been named the top vendor in the global data integration market in a bulletin from leading industry analyst IDC. The recent bulletin, "Worldwide Data Distribution, Migration and Repurposing Software Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006," ranks Informatica as the leading vendor in the data integration space for the second consecutive year.

"For the second year, Informatica is the leading vendor in the IDC Data Distribution, Migration and Repurposing (DDMR) market, in addition to being the number-one ETML vendor," said the IDC report. "Over the past year, Informatica has been evolving from a back-end ETML solution to include business analytics on the front end that, along with other Informatica solutions, are changing the focus of the company to promising business analytics opportunities."

The IDC bulletin examines the data distribution, migration and repurposing market, and leading vendor performance and profits for 2001 through 2006. The document also identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to be successful in the future.

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