Informatica Corporation Expands European Operations

Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of eBusiness analytic software, announced it has expanded European operations to the Netherlands and Belgium. This move is designed to strengthen its overall global reach and capitalize upon the demand for its data integration platform and analytical applications in the region. Chretien Minke has been appointed managing director of the newly formed Informatica Nederland B.V. and Informatica Belgie N.V. subsidiaries. The expansion is the result of the acquisition of syn-T-sys, a distributor who previously represented Informatica in this region.

The Informatica award-winning data integration platform and analytical applications enable companies to integrate data from disparate sources, analyze the information consistently across their business, and deliver personalized, timely insight to a wide range of corporate information consumers. Ultimately, this helps businesses improve operational performance, accelerate revenue growth and increase competitive responsiveness.

"Informatica now has more than 330 customers throughout Europe, and the Netherlands and Belgium are emerging as hotbeds of the European information economy," said Ediz Ertekin, vice president, Europe, Informatica. "This move is designed to more effectively satisfy Informatica's Dutch and Belgian customers' demand for increased business insight, and complements our other initiatives throughout Europe."

Previously, Chrétien Minke was the co-founder and CEO of syn-T-sys. In leading syn-T-sys for the past two years, he has overseen Informatica's tremendous growth in the region, to a point where the company now has license agreements with more than 40 top-tier companies, a staff of 23 technical support, sales, marketing and education professionals will be located at the regional offices. In the Netherlands and Belgium, customers include KPN Telecom, ABN AMRO Bank, VNU, Philips and others across a wide range of industries, including financial services, banking, insurance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, media, retail and manufacturing.

About Informatica

Informatica provides eBusiness analytic software that enables companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage. More than 1,100 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 products include a comprehensive family 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, BMW, Boeing, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Inktomi, Merck, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, MCI WorldCom, Motorola, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint and UBS. For more information, visit www.informatica.com.

Contact Maaike Hilbrand, Informatica Corp, Nederland B.V., +31 (0)30 6082 083, mhilbrand@informatica.com or Kristine Austin, Informatica Corp, 650-687-3588, kaustin@informatica.com.