Compaq Will Distribute Informatica PowerCenter/PowerMart

Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic software, announced that it has signed an agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation through which Compaq will distribute Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerMart data integration platform software to offer customers fully integrated business insight solutions.

Informatica has also ported its data integration software products to the Compaq Tru64 UNIX operating system on the high-end AlphaServer platform, enabling its customers to leverage Compaq s powerful, high-performance server software within their analytic environments.

"We chose to distribute Informatica data integration technology because of its unparalleled ability to integrate information from across the entire enterprise," said John O'Keefe, vice president of Compaq's Business Critical Server Group (BCSG) Solutions Group. "By pairing Compaq's high-performance servers with Informatica's leading data integration software, our customers will benefit from a comprehensive solution that will help them leverage their enterprise systems for business insight and competitive advantage."

"Companies that rely on Informatica's data integration platform are primarily large, global organizations that are transitioning to become eBusinesses by moving their sales and supplier channels to the Web," said Clive Harrison, executive vice president of worldwide field operations with Informatica Corporation. "These companies are now dealing with enormous, fast-growing volumes of data and the need to analyze data in real time. The proven scalability and reliability of Compaq's high-performance server software offers our customers an ideal platform to support their analytic environment."

Under terms of the agreement, Compaq is authorized to market and sell Informatica data integration platform software and utilize the software as a component of its system integration solutions.

Compaq's BCSG Solutions Group provides planning, design, implementation and management services using proven methodologies to provide customers with complete IT solutions.

The addition of Informatica's industry-leading products to the Compaq portfolio allows Compaq to build more comprehensive solutions in response to customers' increasingly sophisticated requirements.

Informatica PowerCenter is enterprise data integration software that enables large organizations to easily integrate legacy, relational and ERP (enterprise resource planning) data into reliable information for strategic business analysis.

Informatica PowerMart is an integrated software suite for deploying and managing line-of-business data marts.

Informatica data integration platform software products are now available on Compaq's AlphaServer (Tru64 UNIX) and ProLiant (Microsoft NT and Windows) systems.

About Informatica

Informatica provides eBusiness analytic software that enables companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage. More than 1,000 global customers, including over half of the Fortune 100, leverage the Informatica Insight Network to integrate, analyze and personalize critical business information to improve business performance and responsiveness across the entire business value chain.

Informatica's products include a comprehensive suite of analytic applications, the industry's most powerful data integration platform and a wide range of supporting services and partnerships. The company's list of leading customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, Boeing, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Inktomi, J. Crew, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, MCI WorldCom, Motorola, Mutual of Omaha, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Preview Travel, Sprint and UBS. For more information, call 800-970-1179, or visit Informatica's Web site at www.informatica.com.

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