(Source: Business Wire)Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced a partnership with Informatica to OEM PowerCenter and PowerExchange from Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Endeca will integrate Informatica's PowerCenter and PowerExchange, part of the industry-leading Informatica Platform, with the McKinley release of the Endeca Information Access Platform. Together, these technologies provide a complete solution for unifying data from databases, warehouses, and enterprise business systems with content from product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems, providing greater visibility across disparate information for improved daily decision-making.

"Business professionals and IT groups alike increasingly look for applications that create a single view of information across a broad variety of relevant sources," said Hadley Reynolds, director, search & digital marketplace technologies, IDC. "IDC has identified this trend as unified access to information, and we project that the software that provides these composite views will become a core element in tomorrow's enterprise infrastructure. Alliances like this one between Endeca and Informatica will accelerate the development and adoption of applications that blend structured and unstructured information to give the business a better handle on decision-making."

The partnership allows Endeca customers to leverage industry standard software for integrating data to feed a search application. For customers who already have Informatica deployed, they can use skills they already have in house. For customers who do not, they can tap the large number of consultants already familiar with Informatica's products. In all cases, Endeca's rich feature set around semi-structured content acquisition and enrichment can be combined with Informatica's existing offerings. As a result, the time and costs associated with deploying Endeca's search applications are greatly reduced.

"With Informatica, Endeca is extending their data acquisition capabilities allowing them to index a broader set of enterprise data. Endeca customers can better access highly-valuable information assets, leveraging it for improved daily decision-making," said Harry Gould, senior vice president, Worldwide Alliances, Informatica. "With deep expertise in semi-structured information, Endeca technology is ideal for the thousands of companies that rely on Informatica to lower IT costs and gain greater business value from their information assets."

"Informatica has a proven track record of success in helping the world's leading companies leverage their information assets to grow revenues, improve profitability, and increase customer loyalty," said Jason Purcell, senior vice president of marketing and product management, Endeca. "By integrating with and re-selling industry standard data integration software, our customers can use skills they already have to populate their search applications with enterprise data, reducing deployment time and costs. Our collaboration allows us to accelerate the value we can bring to the market by allowing us to concentrate our R&D efforts on our core technology, while offering our customers a proven solution around enterprise data integration."

About Endeca

Endeca is a leading provider of search applications.Search applications built on Endeca's technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca's Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better decisions.More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or info@endeca.com.

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