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Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced the globalization of its PowerAnalyzer business intelligence (BI) software. With the newest release of PowerAnalyzer 4.1, internationalization and localization features add immediate support for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. By localizing the industry's only unified, Internet-centric BI solution, Informatica can help companies deploy powerful, easy-to-use business intelligence capabilities to a larger number of their users worldwide. Shipping now, PowerAnalyzer 4.1 addresses the needs of global companies looking to drive business intelligence out to all geographies and decision makers, as well as regional companies desiring localized interfaces. Personalized language support enables individual users to select, at any time, the language and associated character set they want for presenting their local information. This ability complements numerous other PowerAnalyzer capabilities for personalized, real-time BI delivery, including dashboards, reports and device-independent alerts. "Everything that has made PowerAnalyzer a revolutionary and award-winning business intelligence solution in North America -- from its intuitiveness to its Internet-centric architecture and low cost of ownership -- is now available for more global companies," said Girish Pancha, executive vice president of products at Informatica. "PowerAnalyzer is designed to put easy-to-use business intelligence capabilities into the hands of the widest possible circle of enterprise business users around the world." "VeriSign uses PowerAnalyzer because of its broad deployment capabilities and its ability to provide rapid insight into our key business metrics," said Brian Lillie, vice president, VeriSign Management Information Systems. "The new internationalization and localization features will help us to roll out PowerAnalyzer to many more users in multiple countries and provide them access to the same information at the same time, in a language-transparent fashion." In the area of foreign languages and character sets, PowerAnalyzer 4.1 provides multibyte support for Asian languages and full Unicode/UTF-8 support. All international time, date and currency formats are also supported. PowerAnalyzer is the only business intelligence software today offering a single, unified server and pure Internet-centric architecture -- designed for usability, scalability and extensibility -- to help ensure the lowest cost of ownership and quickest return-on-investment. PowerAnalyzer uniquely leverages the industry-leading Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform to help provide greater confidence in data, while delivering ad-hoc query and reporting, analysis, embedded Excel, and analytic workflows via "out-of-the-box" dashboards. PowerAnalyzer was recently recognized as a 2003 eWeek Excellence Award finalist, and also received "excellent" ratings for scalability and support for query, reporting and analysis in an Intelligent Enterprise product review.