LEADING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES SUPPORT INFORMATICA
ANALYTICS DELIVERY PLATFORM
Informatica continues to build strong alliances with leading
technology infrastructure providers and device manufacturers to
support mobile workers
SAN FRANCISCO, Informatica World 2001, October 23,
2001—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of
enterprise analytic software, today announced support from key
technology infrastructure partners and mobile device providers for
the new Informatica Analytics Server and Informatica Mobile,
collectively known as the Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform.
Announced yesterday, the Informatica Analytics Server with
Informatica Mobile option is the first and only Internet-based
platform that delivers real-time analytics and alerts to information
consumers at the point of work via Web, wireless and voice
recognition interfaces. With a focus on usability, the platform
allows for rapid development and deployment of analytic dashboards
and alerts across the extended enterprise. Designed around an open,
scalable architecture based on a J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)
infrastructure, the Informatica Analytics Server is fully integrated
with existing enterprise infrastructures and can support deployment
to tens of thousands of users whether they are in the office or
working remotely.
Informatica Mobile provides device-specific interfaces for all
popular wireless devices, such as PDAs (WinCE and PalmOS),
WAP-enabled phones, text pagers, BlackBerry Wireless HandheldsÔ, in
addition to voice interfaces. Seamless integration of the
Informatica Mobile option with Informatica Analytics Server provides
full multi-modal support and contextual sharing of information
between devices. In addition, the remote print capability
enables mobile workers to print important documents and reports to
any local fax machine.
The mobile analytics solution is being demonstrated at
Informatica World 2001 in San Francisco in cooperation with
technology partners BEA Systems, Neomar, Nuance and TIBCO Software;
and mobile device providers Compaq (iPAQ PocketPC), Hewlett-Packard
(Jornada), Motorola (WAP-enabled phones and text pagers), Palm
(PDAs) and RIM (BlackBerry Wireless email solution).
Building a Market Through a Strong Partner Ecosystem
“Informatica enterprise analytics combines the best of data
integration, analytic applications and business intelligence tools
to deliver key business metrics to any manager, any time, anywhere,”
said Girish Pancha, general manager and senior vice president of
platform technologies at Informatica. “The support and enthusiasm
for our mobile analytics solution has been strong. We will
continue to collaborate with partners who share our vision of
broad-scale deployment of enterprise analytics both in the office
and on the road.”
The following companies are working with Informatica to enable
decision makers to transform business insight into true competitive
advantage.
BEA Systems
As part of the support for the
J2EE standard, Informatica has partnered with BEA Systems with its
BEA WebLogic® software. The integrated platform enables
customers to rapidly deploy scalable and reliable enterprise
analytic infrastructures. Informatica and BEA have further
extended their relationship to include integration of Informatica
Analytics Server with the Informatica Mobile option into BEA
WebLogic Portal™ 4.0.
“Together, Informatica and BEA are improving global enterprise
analytic delivery and accelerating enterprise-wide collaboration
among decision makers,” said Alfred Chuang, BEA founder, president
and CEO. “Our relationship translates to a competitive advantage for
our mutual customers.”
Compaq
The Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC enables
mobile workers to manage critical data anytime, anywhere. The
delivery of real-time analytics to the iPAQ Pocket PC brings
powerful information into the hands of decision-makers.
“Compaq is pleased to provide an end-to-end computing environment
to showcase Informatica mobile enterprise analytics at Informatica
World,” said Cindy Box, Compaq’s director of marketing, iPAQ Mobile
Solutions. “The iPAQ Pocket PC is an extremely powerful
handheld device for performing enterprise analytics on-the-go.
When combined with our ProLiant NT Servers and Tru64 UNIX
AlphaServers, Compaq can address a wide range of mobile enterprise
needs in a highly scalable solution for wireless access to corporate
information and the Internet -- anytime, anywhere.”
Hewlett-Packard
Mobile professionals using
the HP Jornada line of PDAs can access valuable analytic information
to make informed decisions remotely(1). Users can personalize
their analytic dashboard to provide alerts and navigate through and
interact with key business metrics such as sales trends, customer
order records and support logs in addition to seamless integration
with enterprise communications tools.
“HP realizes the need for effective information appliances,” said
Nigel Ball, vice president and general manager, HP e-Services
Partner Division. “We see the Informatica Mobile solution for mobile
analytics along with our HP Jornada PDAs as an extremely powerful
combination to equip mobile business managers with the right
information at the right time. Informatica’s single-server,
device-specific approach to delivery of enterprise analytics fully
supports the design of the HP Jornada and provides an extremely
powerful user experience.”
(1) Wireless Internet use requires separately purchased modem and
service contract. Check with service provider for coverage and
availability in your area. Not all Web content available.
Motorola
Using Motorola’s range of two-way
text messaging devices, WAP enabled phones and other wireless
communications devices, mobile workers can be alerted to and kept
informed of key events as they occur. The ability to
access critical business metrics and quickly navigate through
seamlessly integrated with communications tools such as email and
calendaring provides competitive edge and increased productivity for
any organization using the Informatica analytics delivery
platform.
“Motorola is very excited about working together with Informatica
and demonstrating the power of wireless access to Informatica Mobile
using our portfolio of wireless personal communicators,” said Allan
Spiro, marketing manager, Motorola Wireless Messaging Division.
Neomar
Neomar, a leading developer of
wireless enterprise software solutions, has been chosen as a
preferred provider of mobile device software for Informatica Mobile.
With its support for push data, forms storage, “fire and forget”
functionality and many other new features, the Neomar Microbrowser™
with Intelligent Client Engine™ (ICE) enables an optimized user
experience for Informatica Mobile and other enterprise
applications. The software is one of several new applications
released as part of Neomar’s Real Mobility™ framework, announced
earlier this month.
“Informatica Mobile is an outstanding example of the types of
high-value applications that enterprises can deploy via Neomar’s
technology,” said W.R. “Butch” Winters, chief executive officer at
Neomar. “By allowing users to be alerted to, navigate through
and interact with key business metrics such as sales trends,
customer order records, support logs, and enterprise communication
tools, Informatica Mobile empowers employees, suppliers, and
customers to make informed decisions while in the office or on the
road. We’re very pleased that Informatica has chosen Neomar’s
software as a preferred technology in support of this platform.”
Nuance
Informatica is leveraging Nuance’s
speech recognition engine, Nuance 7.0, to voice-automate the
navigation of its analytics platform. In addition, Informatica
tapped Nuance’s voice interface consulting services to help design
the persona, or consistent character of the application, and improve
overall usability of the voice-driven Informatica implementation.
“As businesses become increasingly mobile, it is important to
enable employees with access to critical information from anywhere,
at anytime,” said Ronald Croen, president and CEO, Nuance. “Nuance
is pleased to help companies like Informatica offer customers
real-world solutions that fit the current needs of the market.”
Palm
Palm’s handheld solutions allow mobile
workers to carry and access their most critical information wherever
they go. With the ability to access key performance indicators from
an easy to use, analytic dashboard and quickly navigate through data
to the root cause of a problem, users are more productive.
Seamless integration with email and remote print capabilities allow
mobile workers to collaborate effectively within the extended
enterprise.
“Informatica Mobile showcases the true power and flexibility of
the Palm OS as a critical tool for the enterprise,” said Gina Clark,
vice president of Palm OS marketing at Palm, Inc. “Now more than
ever, IT decision makers are exploring and deploying to their
constituencies the more than 17,000 software tools that work on any
Palm-powered handheld. The resulting efficiency and potential return
on investment from adding applications built using the Informatica
Analytics Delivery Platform to a Palm-powered device are moving
corporation after corporation to embrace the Palm OS as its handheld
platform of choice.”
Research In Motion
Companies that extend the
Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform to BlackBerry Wireless
Handhelds empower their mobile employees to make informed
decisions. The RIM/Informatica solutions enable mobile alerts
and easy interaction with key business metrics such as sales trends,
customer order records, support logs and enterprise communications
tools.
“Informatica’s expertise in analytic software complements RIM’s
leadership in wireless communications for mobile professionals,”
said Mark Guibert, vice president, brand management at Research In
Motion. “By combining the Web-served based Informatica Analytics
Delivery Platform with RIM’s BlackBerry solution, our customers will
be able to make informed decisions through improved mobile access to
enterprise applications.”
TIBCO Software Inc.
Real-time analytics are
a key component of the Informatica enterprise analytics vision and
TIBCO’s enterprise portal strategy. With the integration of the
Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and the TIBCO ActivePortal,
employees, customers, vendors and business partners can have
visibility into critical corporate data, such as inventory, sales
data and customer service information, anytime, anywhere.
“The value of our partnership with Informatica to develop
real-time analytics will be realized by customers, suppliers,
partners and employees alike,” Vivek Ranadivé, chairman and CEO of
TIBCO Software Inc. “The leading companies of the future will be
those that can harness real-time, user-specific information and make
intelligent business decisions to meet the needs of their
customers.”
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
+1-800-970-1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.
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Contact:
Samantha Moore
Informatica Corporation
650.687.6361
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Colleen Haikes
TSI
Communications
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