• Record first quarter total revenues of $196.0 million, up 17 percent year-over-year
• Record first quarter license revenues of $80.1 million, up 12 percent year-over-year
• Record deferred revenues of $234.7 million

Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012.

“As organizations aspire to become data-centric enterprises, the role of data integration within the IT infrastructure is more critical than ever,” said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO, Informatica. “As the largest independent leader in data integration, with a track record of continual innovation and customer success, Informatica is well-prepared to pursue this growth opportunity.”

Financial Highlights for the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2012

Total revenues for the first quarter of 2012 were $196.0 million, an increase of 17 percent from $168.0 million in the first quarter of 2011. License revenues were $80.1 million, an increase of 12 percent from $71.5 million in the first quarter of 2011.

Income from operations for the first quarter, calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), was $38.0 million, up 19 percent from $31.9 million in the first quarter of 2011.

GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2012 was $26.5 million, up 21 percent from $21.9 million in the first quarter of 2011, and GAAP net income per diluted share was $0.24, up 20 percent from $0.20 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2011.

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Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011.
“Our singular mission, focused growth strategy, clear vision and the team’s operational discipline have driven sustained record results over the past seven years,” said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO, Informatica. “With the increasingly critical role of our expansive data integration platform and the emerging opportunities driven by the secular megatrends of cloud computing and big data, Informatica is well-positioned for our long-term growth plans.”
Financial Highlights for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2011
Total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $227.1 million, an increase of 15 percent from $198.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. License revenues were $112.1 million, an increase of 12 percent from $100.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2010.
For the year ended December 31, 2011, revenues were $783.8 million, an increase of 21 percent from the $650.1 million recorded in 2010. License revenues for the year ended December 31, 2011 were $353.7 million, up 20 percent from $295.1 million in 2010.

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News Facts:

• Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, announced that two Informatica customers were named Leaders and two Informatica executives have won coveted 2011 Ventana Research Leadership Awards – including the prestigious Overall Information Technology Award.
• Informatica customers taking home top awards in their respective categories include:
  • Westpac New Zealand Life Limited: Overall Information Technology Award and Leadership in Big Data.
  • Utah Department of Health:Leadership inInformation Management.
• Additionally, Informatica took home top Leadership awards in the categories of:
  • Chief Financial Officer, awarded to Informatica CFO Earl Fry for exemplary overall financial leadership.
  • IT Performance Management, awarded to Informatica CIO Tony Young and his team for the exemplary application of IT performance management processes and technology to drive organizational performance.
• The Ventana Research Leadership Awards recognize the technology vendors and their customers that have most effectively achieved success through using people, processes, information and technology and applying best practices within specific business and technology categories.

“We are tremendously proud of the Informatica customers recognized by this year’s Ventana Research Leadership Awards and their success in maximizing their Return on Data,” said Chris Boorman, chief marketing officer, Informatica. “Having Earl Fry and Tony Young take home the top honors for their vision and leading-edge accomplishments in harnessing information technology to help drive Informatica’s business success is a testament to their business acumen and leadership skills.”

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Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 Expands Functionality

Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, announced the pre-release of Informatica Cloud Winter 2012. The latest cloud data integration release introduces significant new functionality to cloud integration and hybrid IT environments in the areas of simplicity, connectivity and enterprise-class features. Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 introduces a new easy-to-use contact validation service, a powerful new connectivity framework, and enhanced support for real-time integration with Salesforce CRM and Force.com.

“By providing customers with additional solutions for data quality and greatly expanding our connectivity to on-premise and cloud-based applications, organizations can more easily experience the benefits of cloud computing such as simplicity and accelerated time-to-results,” said Ron Papas, general manager, Informatica Cloud.

Simplicity: Enhancing Self-Service Cloud Data Quality and Data Integration
Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 further strengthens the self-service data integration model that has characterized Informatica Cloud from its inception.

“Informatica Cloud ensures that our Salesforce CRM users never need to leave the platform,” said Laura McKevitt, CRM Manager, CETCO. “Broadening cloud-based connectivity and a continued focus on simplicity and ease of use will make the Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 release an even more critical component of our IT infrastructure.”

Connectivity: Rapid Connectivity Framework for Partners
Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 also focuses on further broadening Informatica Cloud’s extensive and easy-to-leverage cloud and on-premise connectivity. This includes:

“Robust connectivity is the cornerstone of any data integration environment, on-premise, cloud or hybrid,” said William Fellows, Vice President of Research, with The 451 Group. “With its Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 release, Informatica is empowering customers and partners to create and share their own custom connectivity. This crowd-sourcing will likely help to open new markets for cloud data integration and Informatica, and further cement Informatica Cloud’s position as a universal and flexible cloud data integration solution.”

Enterprise-Class: Powerful Cloud Integration Features for Hybrid IT
As more organizations move towards hybrid IT infrastructures, and as cloud integration tasks become more business-critical and complex, enterprise-class features play a vital role in customer success. The Winter 2012 release extends the enterprise-class functionality of Informatica Cloud with new features:

“We chose a cloud-based data integration solution to benefit from the same level of agility and flexibility we expect from our software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications,” said Mike Tampone, director of IT, Sterling Risk. “Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 continues the pace of innovation we have come to expect and the new capabilities will ensure we continue to maximize our overall return on data.”

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According to the authors of the new report, “Demand for data integration tools is growing to support the acquisition alignment and sharing of data, which is now extreme in its volume, variety and velocity. The market still favors offerings that offer fast time-to-value, enable enterprise scalability and support multiple data delivery styles.”

Gartner’s evaluation criteria for the data integration magic quadrant include:

Ability to Execute

• Product/Service
• Overall Viability (Business Unit, Financial, Strategy, Organization)
• Sales Execution/Pricing
• Market Responsiveness and Track Record
• Marketing Execution
• Customer Experience
• Operations

Completeness of Vision

• Market Understanding
• Marketing Strategy
• Sales Strategy
• Offering (Product) Strategy
• Business Model
• Vertical/Industry Strategy
• Innovation
• Geographic Strategy

“Each year Informatica continues to raise the bar around our data integration by offering new and valuable features and functionality that our customers need to stay a step ahead of the competition,” said Girish Pancha, executive vice president, Data Integration Products, Informatica. “We believe being placed on the leaders’ quadrant of the Data Integration Tools Report demonstrates that the Informatica Platform is delivering a great Return on Data for our customers’ top business imperatives. Informatica will continue to expand our data integration platform to further integrate technologies such as master data management, dynamic data masking and data replication.”

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“More than five years ago Informatica made a big bet on cloud,” said Ron Papas, general manager, Informatica Cloud. “Today Informatica Cloud is a critical solution for customers around the globe who are taking advantage of our award-winning on-demand service  to more effectively manage their hybrid IT environment and gain business advantage. As cloud data volumes soar, and use cases multiply, Informatica Cloud demonstrates how important it is for an integration solution to be equally effective in handling Big Data, both high-volume batch and real-time cloud integration tasks.”

“Clouds of different types have in recent years become viable platforms for business intelligence, data warehousing, data integration and data quality,” said Philip Russom, research director for data management at TDWI. “For example, many user organizations have implemented a reporting platform or database management system for warehousing or analytics on either a third-party cloud or their own private cloud. Others depend on cloud-based services for data integration and data quality. Eventually, clouds will be as common as client-server and Web platforms, supporting the full range of enterprise software types.”

“HealthDetail has been an Informatica Cloud customer since June 2009 and have now developed over 500 tasks to automate different business processes across our organization,” said Darrell DeVeaux, president and chief executive officer, HealthDetail. “Informatica Cloud has allowed us to decrease service provider time to our customers from eight hours to just an hour and a half, helped us reduce direct labor costs by more than 70 percent.”

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An increasing number of insurance companies rely on Informatica to address their unique challenges of integrating disparate data from a multitude of channels.

Insurance customers using Informatica Cloud include: Delta Dental of Michigan, Delta Dental of Wisconsin, Frank Crystal & Company, HTH Worldwide, Lincoln Financial, Lockton Companies LLP, National Guardian Life Insurance Company, PSA Financial & Insurance Services and Sterling & Sterling, Inc.

Informatica Cloud delivers true SaaS integration to enable fast, easy CRM integration, seamlessly synchronizing critical data between front-office and back-office systems such as AMS Sagitta for agency management, contract and licensing (C&L) systems, and more.

“With Informatica, we have the ability to use our information as a strategic asset and a means to boost organizational efficiency,” according to Andrew Bartels, Information Technology Director, PSA Financial & Insurance Services. “Informatica Cloud has greatly simplified our getting all the right information into the right hands at the right time.”

“Insurance organizations with a comprehensive view of their customers are able to streamline business processes, better manage risk and grow revenue,” said Gireesh Sonnad, managing partner, Silverline, member of Informatica’s Cloud partner program. “For several years, companies have been turning to Informatica Cloud and Silverline for industry-focused cloud data integration solutions. Together, Informatica Cloud and Silverline are able to integrate cloud-based CRM applications with data from custom and packaged agent and policy management systems, providing companies with a single, consistent and reliable view of their customers.”

“Informatica Cloud helps insurance companies leverage the full value of their data, makes it easy to take advantage of ACORD and other industry standards, and brings new efficiencies and cost-savings to vital business processes.” said Ron Papas, general manager, Informatica Cloud.

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The Winner

“Informatica’s data quality solution is often on the short list with our clients, even if they are not an Informatica shop,” Wang says. That’s a pretty powerful statement that sums up Informatica’s victory for the second consecutive year. In fact, in 2009, an analyst proclaimed that the company “will be hands-down [the one] to beat” in a year or two. Well, it’s now been two years and it looks like Informatica doesn’t plan to go anywhere soon. Scoring an impressive 4.3 for both company direction and depth of functionality and a 4.0 for customer satisfaction, Informatica was the clear winner in the data quality category this year. “I really like what Informatica is doing,” Fauscette says. “Their developments are very interesting tools, and in some areas they might be a little ahead.”

Informatica beat out DataFlux, IBM, Trillium and Talend. Oracle was named as One to Watch. See this graphic for where Informatica placed against the competition.

The Market
Much like last year, master data management (MDM) has experienced considerable growth, continuing to innovate and help customers keep their data clean and accurate. As Jill Harris, editor in chief for a blog called Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality, noted last year, “the market continues to evolve away from esoteric technical tools and toward business-empowering suites.”

Gartner’s comments on Informatica include:

Strengths:

• Informatica has established itself as a strong provider of comprehensive data quality solutions in the market, with strong growth figures, particularly in EMEA and Asia/Pacific… Many customers are considering Informatica’s data quality products (Informatica Data Quality [IDQ] and Informatica Data Explorer [IDE]) as the organization’s data quality standard.

• Informatica’s data quality tools portfolio includes strong data profiling functionality (Data Explorer) and domain-agnostic parsing, standardization and matching capabilities (Data Quality), and with Informatica Data Quality 9.1 there is better collaboration between profiling and mapping and modeling.

• “Customer references reported high satisfaction with the integrated nature of Informatica’s data quality products with the vendor’s flagship data integration solution, PowerCenter. Customers have also expanded the range of data quality domains in which they are using the tools — beyond customer data and into, for example, product data, financial data and healthcare data. With the informaticacloud.com site, Informatica provides a SaaS-based portfolio of data quality, although it is less emphasized vis-a-vis data integration capabilities, such as data synchronization, migration and replication.”

Key Informatica messages for the 2011 Data Quality Tools Magic Quadrant:

• Strong market leadership – Informatica is a strong leader in the data quality market.
• Best-in-class DQ – Informatica continues to deliver best-in-class data quality capabilities to our customers.
• Unified platform – The Informatica platform offers well-integrated DI/DQ capabilities.
• Multi-domain DQ – Our customers are using Informatica Data Quality across multiple data domains.
• Value-based DQ – Despite premium pricing, other vendors, including IBM and Data Flux were cited as having high cost of ownership.  As more customers upgrade to v9.x they will realize greater value for the price of IDQ. In addition, Informatica has proven to deliver high business value, as many case studies reveal.

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“Informatica’s seventh consecutive quarter with year-over-year license revenue growth higher than twenty percent reflects the increasing adoption of our expansive product portfolio  driven by the top business priorities of our customers,” said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO, Informatica.

Financial Highlights for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2011

Total revenues for the second quarter of 2011 were $192.7 million, an increase of 24 percent from $155.7 million recorded in the second quarter of 2010. License revenues were $86.3 million, an increase of 23 percent from $70.0 million recorded in the second quarter of 2010.

Income from operations for the second quarter, calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), was $36.2 million, up 42 percent from $25.5 million in the second quarter of 2010.

For the six month period ended June 30, 2011, revenues were $360.8 million, an increase of 24 percent from the $290.8 million recorded for the first six months of 2010. License revenues for the first six months of 2011 were $157.8 million, up 26 percent from $125.1 million in the first six months of 2010.

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