Harte-Hanks Trillium Software and Informatica Japan Partner To Deliver a High-Quality Data Integration Solution for the Japanese Market

April 18, 2005; 01:47 PM

TOKYO - April 18, 2005 - Informatica Corporation, Japan (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), AGREX Inc. (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), and Harte-Hanks Trillium Software (United States) today announced that they have expanded their working relationship to deliver a high-quality data integration solution in the Japanese market that will improve the value and quality of information in data warehouses, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) applications. The Trillium Software Data Quality Connector for Informatica PowerCenter, an enterprise data integration platform, is now Unicode-enabled, enabling Trillium Software System® users in a Japanese environment to connect seamlessly with the Japanese version of Informatica PowerCenter.

The Trillium Software Data Quality Connector for PowerCenter, available immediately, is sold and supported in Japan through Trillium Software's global marketing partner, Agrex, Inc.  Seamless integration between Informatica PowerCenter and the Trillium Software System, by way of the Trillium Software Data Quality Connector for Informatica PowerCenter, gives enterprise customers an end-to-end data transformation process that builds best-of-breed data quality into best-of-breed enterprise data integration, the companies reported.  This integration creates an accurate, unified view of a user's consumer and business customers, built from multiple data formats and sources across the enterprise.

"By having more reliable data in systems, organizations can reduce problems during data loading by eliminating data anomalies that can inhibit the data integration process," said Takemi Hojo, president of Informatica Japan.  "By utilizing the Trillium Software Data Quality Connector, Informatica PowerCenter 7 users can now make the most of its wide data access functionality, as well as its highly productive mapping technology and meta-data driven engine, while leveraging Trillium Software's extensive set of data rules for Japanese."

Through the connector, the Trillium Software System becomes part of the Informatica PowerCenter interface, providing validation, standardization and correction of consumer and business information, as well as record linking.

"By offering the Trillium Software Data Quality Connector for PowerCenter, which helps increase deployment time for high quality customer databases, Agrex is responding to the emerging customer needs in the Japanese market for deposit payoff, privacy policies, system auditing and other various corporate challenges," said Ed Wrazen, vice president of international marketing, Trillium Software at Harte-Hanks.        

About Informatica Corporation

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, migrate and consolidate enterprise data across systems, processes and people to reduce complexity, ensure consistency and empower the business.  More than 2,100 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs. For more information, visit http://www.informatica.jp/.

About Trillium Software and Harte-Hanks

Trillium Software®, a division of Harte-Hanks, provides businesses with Total Data Quality solutions - the full complement of technologies and services to profile, cleanse, enhance, and link global data for e-business, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. Use of the Trillium Software System® by many of the world's largest and most successful companies has made Trillium Software the leader in its marketplace. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call (978) 436-8900, or visit Trillium Software online at http://www.trilliumsoftware.com.  Harte-Hanks, Inc., San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to a wide range of local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at http://www.harte-hanks.com..

About AGREX INC.        

A Japanese information service provider founded in 1965, of which services span business process outsourcing, software solutions, system integrations, having the strength in high quality data solutions.  AGREX is the co-developer of the Japanese version of the Trillium Software System for Harte-Hanks, which first became available in the Japanese market in July 1999.  For more information, visit http://www.agrex.co.jp/.

Note: Informatica and PowerCenter are registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. Trillium Software and the Trillium Software System are registered trademarks of Harte-Hanks in the United States, as well as other jurisdictions worldwide.  All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.