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Informatica Corporation delivers data integration software and services to solve a problem facing most large organizations: the fragmentation of data across disparate systems. Informatica helps organizations gain greater business value from their information assets by integrating their enterprise data. Informatica’s open, platform-neutral software reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity. With a proven 11-year track record of success, Informatica helps companies and government organizations of all sizes realize the full business potential of their enterprise data. That’s why Informatica is known as the data integration company.
Informatica products support a broad range of enterprise-wide data integration initiatives including data warehousing, data migration/consolidation, data synchronization, master data management, and cross-enterprise data integration. Using Informatica products, organizations can empower the business by providing near-universal access to holistic, consistent enterprise data. Informatica products reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity while increasing IT's productivity and responsiveness to the business. Moreover, by leveraging a services-oriented architecture, Informatica products help organizations maximize future flexibility and minimize long-term risk.
Informatica South Africa was established in January 2006 in response to the need for a direct Informatica presence in the South African market. This was due to two important factors: the rapidly growing customer base which justified a local Informatica Support Centre and the opportunities to grow Informatica’s market share in the South African market.
The primary focus of Informatica South Africa is to act as a distribution and technical support centre for the Informatica products in the South African market, whereby Informatica South Africa will deliver the Informatica Solution via a three tier channel model. Local channel partners have been appointed who will drive all sales initiatives and will handle all the first line technical support. Informatica South Africa works closely with these partners from a pre-sales perspective and will handle all second line technical support.
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For the year ended December 31, 2005, revenues were $267.4 million, up 22 percent from $219.7 million recorded in 2004. GAAP net income in 2005 was $33.8 million or $0.37 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for 2005 was $39.3 million or $0.43 per diluted share.
“At the beginning of 2005, we outlined our strategy to become the dominant leader in the data integration market: grow beyond the traditional data warehousing market, expand across all geographic regions, strengthen our partnerships and deliver technology innovations to best address our customers’ requirements,” said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO of Informatica. “Executing on our strategy, in 2005, Informatica achieved the best results in the company’s history with record non-GAAP operating margins of 15 percent in the fourth quarter. With our validated strategy, we are confident that we have substantial room for continued growth in the data integration market.”
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Signed repeat business with 243 customers. Customers continue to derive considerable value from their investments in Informatica solutions. Repeat customers included ABN AMRO, Advanced Micro Devices, American Electric Power, American Healthways, Commerzbank, Charles Schwab, DaimlerChrysler, Daiwa Securities America, General Electric, Guidant, Pfizer, Toyota Communications, Wachovia Corporation, and XM Satellite Radio.
Signed 88 new customers. Informatica increased its customer base this quarter to 2,411 companies. New customers included America Life, China Development Bank, Chiquita Brands, Federal-Mogul Corporation, Fresenius Medical Care, Korea Electric Power Corporation, New York City Department of Corrections, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Prime Therapeutics, and Yamaha Motor Corporation.
Delivered PowerCenter 8 release. On December 16, 2005, Informatica delivered the FCS version of PowerCenter 8. PowerCenter 8, generally available in April 2006, offers near-universal access to enterprise data, unparalleled advancements in enterprise scalability and performance, and breakthrough capabilities delivering greater developer productivity.
Elected Chuck Robel to board of directors. A 26-year veteran of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chuck Robel brings a wide range of experience in finance, corporate governance, accounting, mergers and acquisitions as well as technology strategy to the Informatica board.
Named the ETL market leader by Gartner. For the fourth year in a row, Gartner named Informatica the worldwide revenue leader in ETL in 2004. Informatica captured 25 percent of the ETL market, highlighting a strong revenue increase from 2003, driven by an expanded footprint of data integration outside of traditional data warehousing.
Voted best for enterprise data integration by DM Review magazine. For the second year in a row, readers of DM Review magazine have named Informatica the industry’s top vendor in enterprise data integration. Informatica was awarded the prestigious DM Review 2005 Readership Award by subscribers who were asked to rank vendors on the quality of products used in their organizations and their satisfaction with those products.
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