ParAccel and Informatica Announce Partnership

Relationship to Enable Enterprise Data Integration for High Performance Data Warehousing
Informatica World Booth #711

ParAccel, Inc., provider of the ParAccel Analytic Database, a high-speed, low-effort, columnar database management system, today announced it is partnering with Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA), the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, to develop and market extremely high performance data integration and management solutions for analytic applications. The announcement was made at Informatica World 2008, Informatica’s 10th annual customer conference.

The combination of the ParAccel Analytic Database and Informatica’s industry leading data integration platform will enable organizations to intelligently and quickly integrate and analyze terabytes of information in data warehouses, data marts and analytic applications. The result is a more comprehensive view of critical business information that can be deeply analyzed in record time, enabling better informed and timelier business decisions.

The ParAccel Analytic Database gives companies a competitive advantage by allowing them to analyze information in a fraction of the time. Using a columnar approach with massively parallel processing and patent-pending performance techniques, the ParAccel Analytic Database has delivered significant performance and price-performance gains over other database management systems in customer environments and audited benchmarks. Adding Informatica’s complementary data integration software to ParAccel’s solution set eliminates much of the complexity associated with harnessing information from various enterprise systems and helps to speed the flow of quality information into the hands of users.

“Informatica is pleased to welcome ParAccel as a Foundation Partner to our INFORM Partner Program,” said Harry Gould, senior vice president, worldwide alliances, Informatica. “Our partnership with ParAccel will deliver an innovative and compelling solution to address the traditional challenges of complex data analysis. By combining the capabilities of Informatica and ParAccel, organizations can gain new levels of information access and analyze data at record-breaking speeds.”

“Enterprise data is growing exponentially in volume, complexity, and breadth of sources, and the ability to integrate that data quickly and seamlessly into the ParAccel Analytic Database is important for our customers’ success,” explained Rick Glick, ParAccel’s vice president of technology and architecture. “Informatica is an acknowledged leader in the enterprise data integration market and we look forward to partnering with them to deliver world-class analytic solutions to the marketplace.”

For further information on the ParAccel-Informatica relationship please visit www.paraccel.com, send an e-mail to info {at} paraccel(.)com or visit ParAccel at Informatica World this week in booth #711.

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA) is the leading independent provider of data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 3,000 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of varying complexity and scale. For more information, call +1-650-385-5000 (1-800-653-9871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

About ParAccel

ParAccel, Inc. is the proven leader in scalable analytic performance and price-performance. The ParAccel Analytic Database™ combines patent-pending innovations with a columnar, compressed, massively parallel, all-in-memory-capable architecture and is available as a virtual or packaged appliance on standard hardware from all major vendors. It can be implemented stand-alone, or as a drop-in accelerator to extend an existing SQL Server or Oracle investment. ParAccel’s management team includes technical founders and industry veterans from noted data management companies Netezza, Oracle, Teradata, Gupta, SenSage, PointBase, and IBM. ParAccel recently shattered prior TPC-H benchmark performance and price-performance records at 100GB, 300GB and 1TB using a single configuration at each scale factor. ParAccel is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information please contact us at info {at} paraccel(.)com or 866-903-0335, or visit us at www.paraccel.com.

Note: Informatica is a registered trademark of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.
Contacts

For ParAccel, Inc.:
Humphrey Strategic Communications
Scott R. Humphrey, 503-644-9709
humphrey {at} strategic-pr(.)com