Informatica Announces OpenBridge; New Data Extraction Software Dramatically Streamlines Construction of Data Warehouses

Business Wire, Feb 14, 1995

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 1995--Informatica Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.) Tuesday announced OpenBridge (TM), a next-generation data warehousing software tool suite that enables corporations to extract and load legacy data into client/server databases with much greater ease than other commercially available products.

OpenBridge is shipping now and will be demonstrated this week in Booth 105 at the Data Warehousing Conference in Orlando.

OpenBridge is the first product on the market to address the complex issue of inflexible data warehouse construction. Unlike other data extraction tools, OpenBridge does not rely on code generation. OpenBridge uses dynamic processes configured on the fly to load data directly into the data warehouse, eliminating the need to re-generate code in response to changes.

"The marketplace is looking for a better solution to the problem of data extraction," said Gaurav Dhillon, president, Informatica Corp. "Monolithic data extraction products are cumbersome and inefficient. We designed OpenBridge from the ground up as a client/server tool for building data warehouses. Our tool suite allows IS personnel to quickly converge on the best data warehouse design for their business."

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Other significant features of OpenBridge include:

-- A repository that stores metadata (data about each data element)

-- An innovative visual interface that improves productivity

-- Automatic mapping and transformation

-- Multi-database support

-- Parallel performance to allow large volumes of data to be express-loaded.

OpenBridge is priced from $45,000 per server and supports Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms. Supported legacy data sources include most mainframe and minicomputer environments. OpenBridge data targets include Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server and other relational databases.

Informatica Corp. develops and markets the OpenBridge tool suite for transforming data from operational enterprise databases into information in client/server databases. The privately-held company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif.

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Note to editors: OpenBridge and Informatica are trademarks of Informatica Corp. All other trade names are trademarks of their respective manufacturers.

CONTACT: Informatica Corp.

Gaurav Dhillon, 415/462-8900

E-mail: 74150.662@compuserve.com

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