New Offerings Provide onDemand Learning and Validation of
     Project Knowledge, Hands-on Experience and Best Practices
                             Expertise

INFORMATICA WORLD, LAS VEGAS, May 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one
independent provider of data integration software, today introduced a
completely redesigned Informatica Certified Professional (ICP) program.
The new certification program focuses on demonstrated performance and
outcomes to validate Informatica implementation skills, differentiate
Informatica partners in the marketplace and drive customer success.

In addition, Informatica today launched its new Informatica University
onDemand learning offering, combining self-paced lectures with a
cloud-based lab environment for hands-on exercises. Informatica
University onDemand supplements Informatica University's instructor-led
curriculum with complementary courses that provide customers and
partners with a rich library of offerings to accelerate their skills
development.

"As Informatica approaches the $1 billion/yr revenue mark, it is
critical that our strategy is geared toward maximizing customer
success. Both, the redesigned ICP program and Informatica University
onDemand improve the skills and capabilities required by our value
delivery system to enable customer success," said Daniel West, vice
president, Informatica University. "The purpose of both new programs is
to provide maximum assurance to customers that the people on their data
integration projects possess the skills and knowledge necessary to
solve business problems, mitigate risk and accelerate return on data.
At the same time, we are making it easy and economical for customers
and partners to scale their Informatica training and certification
efforts across large numbers of professionals."

The Informatica Certified Professional (ICP) program

The new ICP program introduces three levels of certification -
Associate, Professional and Expert - in place of the current single
level, with a progressive emphasis on confirmed product knowledge,
field experience and certification in Informatica's best-practice
Velocity implementation methodology. To ensure relevant and consistent
skills measurement, the new program introduces high-stakes, lab-based
performance examinations combined with cost-effective anytime, anywhere
proctored exam delivery.

"In today's competitive market, customers expect quality deliverables
and business outcomes in a shortened timeframe," said Durga Prakash
Kone, Global Head Strategic Alliances & Partnerships-Enterprise
Transformation Services, HCL Technologies Ltd. "HCL Technologies
believes that the new ICP program will deliver these results. The
program is a high quality offering that will provide HCL Technologies
with a competitive differentiator in the market and help customers to
be successful."

Managed by Informatica University, the new ICP program's three-stage
structure correlates professional certification with the "what, how and
why" of Informatica product implementations:


  -- Associate - To achieve Associate status, a candidate undertakes
     Informatica product training and must pass a written exam, proctored in
     person or via webcam. Understands the product (the what) and can
     contribute to a project as a junior team member.
  -- Professional - Following field experience, the candidate must take a
     proctored, high-stakes performance exam in a physical or virtual
     proctored environment, successfully applying Informatica technology to
     solve a particular problem (the how). Upon passing, the individual is now
     an Informatica Certified Professional and qualified to contribute to a
     project team as a full team member
  -- Expert - To achieve the highest level, Informatica Certified Expert
     status, an Informatica Certified Professional can subsequently elect to
     undertake Informatica Velocity Best Practices Training and Certification
     (the why).




"Informatica's rigorous new ICP program is well aligned with the
increasing complexity and business criticality of enterprise data
integration projects," said Jonathan Stevenson, Enterprise Information
Architect, Ochsner Health System. "Today you don't buy just software,
you also buy ecosystems. Informatica clearly is committed to enabling
its partner ecosystem, which in turn helps drive successful data
integration projects."

Re-certifying under the new ICP program: special "grandfather" offers

Informatica's new ICP program is in effect starting May 15, 2012. All
existing Informatica Platform 8.x / 9.x certifications will expire and
no longer be recognized after December 31, 2012. Previously certified
individuals seeking certification under the new ICP program can take
advantage of two limited-time "grandfather" offers:


  -- Individuals who have achieved Informatica certification on Informatica
     Platform 8.x or 9.x before May 15, 2012 have the opportunity to take the
     new Associate level exams at a 50% discount. This special offer will
     expire after December 31, 2012.
  -- Individuals who also want to progress to the next level under the new
     program and become an Informatica Certified Professional, can take
     advantage of an additional 15% discount from the cost of the standard
     Informatica Certified Professional exam if the individual registers for
     this exam by December 31, 2012.
  -- All who have already purchased 8.x or 9.x exams and have not yet taken
     them will be able to take the new Associate exam without any additional
     cost.




Informatica University onDemand

Informatica University onDemand supplements Informatica University's
core instructor-led curriculum with self-paced courses delivered via
the web. Informatica University onDemand courses can scale to thousands
of users, thus providing a convenient avenue for training large
populations of Informatica customer and partner personnel, anytime,
anywhere.

Informatica onDemand courses are delivered with a consistent look and
feel, and utilize a combination of pre-recorded lecture and a sandbox
lab environment for flexible hands-on learning. They are made available
in four-hour modules that can be consumed at the learner's own pace.

Currently available Informatica University onDemand courses include:


  -- PowerCenter Developer 1
  -- Informatica Data Quality Developer 1




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About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one
independent provider of data integrationsoftware. Organizations around
the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive
their top business imperatives. Worldwide, nearly 5,000 enterprises
depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets
residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more
information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or
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