Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced that Sohaib Abbasi, a former member of the executive committee at Oracle, has joined the Informatica board of directors. "We are very pleased to welcome Sohaib Abbasi to the Informatica board of directors," said Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica. "A true enterprise software veteran with more than 20 years of experience in product-strategy development, Sohaib understands how to create and manage growth opportunities, having helped transform Oracle from a 30-person startup into a global software giant. We look forward to capitalizing on his expertise and vast industry knowledge as the markets for Informatica solutions continue to expand." Abbasi joined Oracle in 1982. In 1985 he envisioned and launched the Oracle Tools business, which he subsequently grew from zero to $3.75 billion in cumulative license revenues. Oracle Tools currently has the largest installed customer base of application development and business intelligence tools. Most recently, Abbasi was a member of the company's executive committee and was senior vice president of two major Oracle divisions, Oracle Tools and Oracle Education, the industry's second-largest IT training organization. Prior to leading the Oracle Tools business, Abbasi helped start and build Oracle sales operations in 13 Midwestern states in the U.S. as manager of technical sales support. Abbasi began his software career at Professional Computer Resources, where he led the development of best-selling financial modeling software, Easy*Plan. Abbasi received a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he has endowed a professorship and a fellowship.