International Beverage Leader Increases Business Efficiency
            and Reduces Cost With Informatica Platform

MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- News Facts:


  --  Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one
      independent provider of data integration software, today announced that
      Foster's Group Limited is using the Informatica Platform to attain a
      single, accurate view of its global operations.
  --  Foster's Group primarily known for its flagship beers, is a 160-year-old
      global beverage company that owns a portfolio of more than 200 brands,
      including beer, wine, spirits, cider, and -nonalcoholic beverages.
      Through a series of acquisitions Foster's has operations on five
      continents, sells its products in more than 100 countries and employs a
      workforce of 6,000.
  --  Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) have caused Foster's to have a mix of
      enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and different methods for
      defining and processing key business data, such as information on
      customers and products.
  --  Foster's is utilizing Informatica Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter,
      Informatica PowerExchange and Informatica Data Explorer. The Informatica
      solution:

-- Underpins Foster's enterprise architecture
      program, impacting all of the international beverage leader's business
      units.
-- Drives common business processes, improved data quality,
      IT simplification and reuse across the enterprise.
-- Is leveraged
      for ERP consolidation -- merging five systems into one -- and the
      establishment of a unified Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
      environment.
-- Powers the creation of a single global Business
      Intelligence (BI) environment for faster, lower-cost reporting and
      analytics, enhanced supply chain efficiency and improved production
      planning.
-- Enables standardization of product and customer data
      hierarchies for unified global views.
-- Improves data quality
      before, during and after data migrations and system consolidations.
-- Allows broader use of outsourced IT services and reassignment of
      internal IT resources to higher-value tasks through the elimination of
      inflexible, hand-coded integration interfaces.




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Supporting Quotes


  --  "The target state for our enterprise architecture program is to have a
      single source of truth for critical business data worldwide. The
      Informatica Platform is an essential part of achieving that goal," said
      Michael Davis, senior enterprise architect, Foster's Group. "The
      Informatica solution will eventually touch almost every aspect of the
      business through the improved quality of information, streamlined
      processes and visibility into global operations it helps to power."
  --  "Foster's use of the Informatica Platform showcases its capabilities for
      addressing the broad range of today's data integration scenarios -- from
      data migration and system consolidation to business intelligence and
      enterprise data quality," said Ivan Chong, executive vice president,
      Data Quality Business, Informatica. "At the same time, Foster's
      highlights the broad value gained from possessing a single, trusted view
      of operations -- including faster, better business decisions, enhanced
      compliance and stronger customer relationships."




Additional Links


  --  Success Story: Unified Data Architecture Helps Beverage Leader Reduce
      Costs




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