03/09/2004

Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), the provider of data integration and business intelligence software, says Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), the world’s largest non-profit homebuilder, is implementing the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform “to better serve customers, affiliates, donors, corporate partners, contributors and staff via quality information.”

In addition, Informatica says Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a not-for-profit Fortune 500 financial services organization, has licensed Informatica software for data integration, business intelligence and metadata management to support company-wide compliance monitoring and performance management initiatives.

“The Informatica platform provides for total data integration across all of Habitat’s data – including financial, human resources, payroll and donor-base information,” said Teresa Pudi, information systems vice president for Habitat for Humanity International. “With its support for our mission, Informatica provides a key building block in our foundation for growth. It also has made a significant contribution to Habitat’s work in building homes for families in need and helping to rid the world of poverty housing.”

With PowerCenter, notes Informatica, “HFHI can easily organize and coordinate data by implementing a data warehouse to help it identify relationships among information gathered from different parts of the organization. The Informatica platform is also helping HFHI to streamline its various data integration processes, which it can leverage in the future as it migrates data from legacy systems to new applications.”

“We can use Informatica as a cost-effective data integration platform to migrate from one application to another in finance, payroll, human resources, or as we work with our donor base,” continued Pudi. “We can also create a central repository of integrated information, not only for Habitat International but also for our affiliates, while standardizing on business rules and metrics.”

“Habitat for Humanity has been providing invaluable community services for over 25 years. We are pleased to be helping it further its mission by improving operational efficiencies through powerful data integration capabilities,” said Paul Albright, chief marketing officer at Informatica. “By implementing PowerCenter as its data integration backbone for both data warehousing and data migration across many disparate systems, Habitat has greater confidence in its organizational data, which in turn can help it improve customer and donor satisfaction.”

As for Thrivent Financial, Nathan Meyer, lead of enterprise information services for Thrivent says, “Data integration and business intelligence will help promote Thrivent Financial’s key corporate value of ethical and efficient operations. We expect Informatica’s software will help provide the total cost-of-ownership and ease-of-use we are looking for, while also providing an excellent fit with our web-generation architectures.”

Thrivent Financial is integrating contract, customer, financial and HR data from a range of enterprise and external systems using the Informatica PowerCenter platform, which has been the organization’s core data integration platform since 2001, Informatica points out.

The vendor adds that, “Thrivent Financial field agents will leverage this data via Informatica PowerAnalyzer to measure their personal performance relative to goals and peer groups. Thrivent Financial management will also use Informatica software to help oversee regulatory compliance, business ethics and the performance of the organization’s investment portfolios, which total $62.4 billion in assets under management. In addition, Thrivent Financial will implement Informatica SuperGlue to help the company better understand its complex information flows and assess the impact of changes to its information architecture.”

“Thrivent Financial understands that building an enterprise data integration architecture is one thing, but maintaining and expanding it cost effectively over time is another challenge altogether,” said Clive Harrison, executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Informatica. “By leveraging the complete Informatica platform with a unified architecture for all data integration, business intelligence and metadata management, Thrivent Financial is well-positioned to more effectively support regulatory compliance and perform the impact analyses necessary to optimally manage a blossoming set of business performance applications.”