Gartner Positions Informatica as a Leader in 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide

Redwood City, Calif., March 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), the world's number oneindependent provider of dataintegration software, today announced that Gartner, Inc., aleading IT research and advisory firm, has positioned Informaticaas a leader in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise IntegrationPlatform as a Service (iPaaS), Worldwide report, based on abilityto execute and completeness of vision. In the report published onMarch 23, Informatica was positioned the highest on the MagicQuadrant for Ability to Execute.

The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, isavailable at https://www.informatica.com/ipaas-magic-quadrant.html. 

According to the Gartner report, "Integration platform as aservice (iPaaS) is a cloud service that provides a platform tosupport application, data and process integration projects, usuallyinvolving a combination of cloud-based applications, APIs andon-premise systems."

Gartner analysts wrote in the report that, "Trends anddrivers leading to enterprise iPaaS adoption will affect virtuallyevery organization using cloud-based applications," and that"Gartner expects that enterprise iPaaS will continue to grow at adouble-digit rate over the next five years, on the assumption thatvirtually all user organizations must integrate applications, andat least some of these are, or will be, in the cloud. The reportcontinued saying that, "the iPaaS market is poised to dramaticallygrow over the next five years because of several factors,including: the explosion of CSI, MAI, API and IoTrequirements."

"We believe our leadership position in the Gartner MagicQuadrant for iPaaS, particularly the recognition of our strongability to execute, reflects the thousands of customers, large andsmall, that are using Informatica to successfully support animmense range of data, process and service integration projects,"said Ash Kulkarni, senior vice president and general manager,Informatica Cloud. "As a result, we are seeing over 130 billiontransactions being processed with the Informatica Cloud ecosystemper month. Further, we are continuing to build iPaaS capabilitiesthat leverage our extensive expertise in cloud, on-premise andhybrid integration. Informatica is a pioneer in big dataintegration and with our proven ability to put powerful, yetsimple-to-use integration capabilities into the hands ofnon-technical business users and citizen integrators, the future isreally bright."

Informatica Recognition in other recent Gartner reports:

• Gartner Critical Capabilities for Data Quality Tools (Feb. 18,2015)
• Gartner2014 Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology (Dec. 10,2014)
• Gartner2014 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools (Nov. 26, 2014)
• Gartner 2014Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer DataSolutions (Oct. 30, 2014)
• Gartner2014 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools (July 24,2014)
• Gartner2014 Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and ApplicationRetirement (June 11, 2014)

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About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA) is the world's number oneindependent provider of dataintegration software. Organizations around the world relyon Informatica to realize their informationpotential and drive top businessimperatives. InformaticaVibe, the industry's first and only embeddable virtual datamachine (VDM), powers the unique "Map Once. Deploy Anywhere."capabilities of the Informatica Platform. Worldwide, over 5,500enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage theirinformation assets from devices to mobile to social to big dataresiding on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. Formore information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in theU.S.), or visit INFA)">www.informatica.com.Connect with Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation,http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp.

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