i2 OEMs Informatica supply chain analytics software

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 05 November 2002, 20:30 IST
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NEW ORLEANS: Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), Tuesday announced that i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITWO) has signed an OEM agreement for the Informatica Warehouse for Supply Chain analytics and the informatica power Analyzer business intelligence platform. Under the contract, i2 is also authorized to resell the entire suite of Informatica Applications to its customers. The new agreement expands an existing OEM relationship in which i2 embeds Informatica's Power Center data integration platform within the i2 architecture. With this new agreement, Informatica's analytics software family becomes a standard component of i2's core infrastructure, helping its customers gain visibility across i2 applications and improve decision-making with data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence capabilities. "Our deepened relationship with Informatica will help provide our customers with a proven solution for supply chain and business analytics that can quickly link management processes with core business metrics," said Pallab Chatterjee, president of solutions operations, i2. "By strengthening our relationship with the industry's leader in value chain management solutions, we are providing companies with end-to-end solutions that will help bring a consolidated and consistent view of cross-value chain metrics that chart the pulse of their businesses," said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. Informatica PowerAnalyzer is a business intelligence solution designed for the rapid and broad deployment of Web-based analytic solutions -- including dashboards, reporting, analysis, ad-hoc query and analytic applications.