Redwood City, Calif. and San Mateo, Calif. —March 1, 2011 —NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, and Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver the first cloud computing-based solution for deploying two-tier ERP systems. Combining Informatica's world-class enterprise data integration with NetSuite's leading cloud ERP suites, global companies can extend and enhance their on-premise enterprise systems with cloud-based ERP solutions for their regional subsidiaries and divisions. With this new two-tier ERP offering, CIOs can lower IT costs, significantly reduce business system implementation times, and gain speed to market.

With a two-tier ERP infrastructure, the existing SAP or Oracle system serves as the hub at the enterprise level and is augmented with more flexible and cost effective cloud ERP solutions, such as NetSuite OneWorld, at the subsidiary or divisional level. Informatica's cloud data integration solution enables integration between the on-premise enterprise system and cloud divisional systems.

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