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New Product Training Partnerships in India, Latin America and U.S. to Deliver Hands-On Training for Informatica Data Integration Products: Addressing the growing worldwide demand for skilled data integration professionals, Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration solutions, today announced that it is extending its global product education reach by partnering with leading companies in India, Latin America and the United States to deliver specialized training on Informatica products. By teaming with local companies in key geographies, Informatica is making it easier and more cost-effective for customers and systems integrators to leverage expert data integration instruction. The hands-on training with market-leading Informatica data integration products helps them derive maximum value from their Informatica investments. NIIT, India's largest IT training company, and Softtek, a leading IT services company headquartered in Brazil, will now deliver Informatica- certified training to Informatica customers and partners in India and Latin America respectively. Long-time Informatica partner, Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP), formerly Core Integration, a top IT solutions provider in the U.S., will deliver the same services to customers in the Denver and Rocky Mountain area. All three companies will provide corporate and public (open to all IT professionals) training courses taught by Informatica-certified educators on the full range of Informatica's data integration, data quality and metadata solutions. "Informatica's global education services partnerships reflect our commitment to burgeoning new data integration markets such as India and Latin America, and our desire to make it more convenient for all our customers, developers and integrators to benefit from world-class product training," said Roslyn Jones, vice president, Global Education Services, Informatica. "NIIT, Softtek and VIP all have extensive educational resources and state-of-the-art training infrastructures and will use Informatica methodologies, content and tools to prepare students to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of Informatica products. As authorized extensions of Informatica's own training centers and resources, these and other training partnerships we plan to establish will help us expand our education reach while enabling professionals globally to gain and hone highly leverageable data integration skills." In India, where Informatica has more than 40 Systems Integrator partners, including many that operate globally, NIIT will initially offer training programs in its facilities in Mumbai and Bangalore. In addition to product training, NIIT provides assistance to prepare students for Informatica Certification. "The demand for knowledgeable data integration professionals is reaching new heights in India and elsewhere in Asia as companies engage in data warehousing and business intelligence, data migrations and systems upgrades, and the providing of outsourced IT and business services," said Ashish Basu, president, Corporate Solutions Business, NIIT. "We are pleased that the IT industry in India will now have access to Informatica products and training programs in enterprise data integration through NIIT's extensive education network." In Latin America, Softtek will initially provide Informatica training programs at its Softtek Training Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A multinational company of over 4,000 professionals, Softtek has been an Informatica strategic partner and master distributor since 2001. In the U.S., VIP will deliver Informatica training programs at its Core College in Denver, Colorado. Focused solely on data integration and business intelligence, and one of the world's leading providers of Informatica-based solutions, VIP has been an Informatica strategic partner since 1999. The InnerCore, a global online community started and run by VIP, boasts one of the world's largest online communities for Informatica developers and users. For information on Informatica Global Education Services, along with courses and schedules, please visit its Web site . Please also visit VIP at its Web site, Softtek at its Web site, and NIIT at its Web site for their specific Informatica product training schedules.