Identity Systems to be acquired by Informatica
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Espoo, Finland & Redwood City, CA - Nokia and Informatica have signed
an agreement for Informatica to acquire Identity Systems,
headquartered in Greenwich, CT. Identity Systems became a subsidiary
of Nokia in February 2006 as part of Nokia's acquisition of
Intellisync. Informatica will acquire all of the capital stock of
Identity Systems in a cash transaction valued at approximately USD 85
million.
Identity Systems is a global leader in enterprise software
development for identity resolution, providing fast, highly accurate
and scalable solutions to profile, cleanse, group, match and
consolidate data within computer systems and network databases.
"After thorough consideration Nokia decided that Identity Systems'
business has a much bigger potential as part of Informatica since
identity resolution is a key part of many data quality and data
integration initiatives," said Tom Furlong, SVP, Services & Software,
Nokia. "With this transaction, Identity Systems' strong and
committed team has the opportunity to expand and grow their already
successful business and technology. We see this as a natural
evolution to Identity Systems as they have been operating as a very
independent business within Nokia."
"We are excited and confident that our innovative solutions, strong
talent pool, solid partner ecosystem and global customer base will
add to Informatica's existing success in the data quality market. We
are pleased and look forward to being part of the leading global
independent data integration company," said Sanjay Rao, General
Manager of Identity Systems.
"The combination of Identity Systems and Informatica will offer the
most advanced data quality products," said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman
and CEO, Informatica. "This combination advances our leadership in
three ways. First, we will offer our customers additional innovative
capabilities for identity search and resolution. Second, it extends
our data quality products with differentiated cross-language identity
matching capabilities. And third, our customers will benefit from
the near-universal access of our leading data integration platform to
integrate all their data including identity data. Together, we will
further enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in
today's global information economy by empowering them to access,
integrate and trust all their information assets."
The transaction is expected to close by the end of May subject to
customary conditions, including all required employee consultations.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We
make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that
enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television,
imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing
our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise
solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.
About Informatica
Informatica is a leading provider of enterprise data integration
software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain
greater business value by integrating all their information assets
from across the enterprise. More than 3,000 companies worldwide rely
on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address
data integration needs of any complexity and scale. For more
information, call +1 650 385 5000, or visit www.Informatica.com.
It should be noted that certain statements herein which are not
historical facts, including, without limitation, those regarding: A)
the timing of product, services and solution deliveries; B) our
ability to develop, implement and commercialize new products,
services, solutions and technologies; C) expectations regarding
market growth, developments and structural changes; D) expectations
regarding our mobile device volume growth, market share, prices and
margins; E) expectations and targets for our results of operations;
F) the outcome of pending and threatened litigation; G) expectations
regarding the successful completion of contemplated acquisitions on a
timely basis and our ability to achieve the set targets upon the
completion of such acquisitions; and H) statements preceded by
"believe," "expect," "anticipate," "foresee," "target," "estimate,"
"designed," "plans," "will" or similar expressions are
forward-looking statements. These statements are based on
management's best assumptions and beliefs in light of the information
currently available to it. Because they involve risks and
uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from the results
that we currently expect. Factors that could cause these differences
include, but are not limited to: 1) competitiveness of our product,
service and solutions portfolio; 2) the extent of the growth of the
mobile communications industry and general economic conditions
globally; 3) the growth and profitability of the new market segments
that we target and our ability to successfully develop or acquire and
market products, services and solutions in those segments; 4) our
ability to successfully manage costs; 5) the intensity of competition
in the mobile communications industry and our ability to maintain or
improve our market position or respond successfully to changes in the
competitive landscape; 6) the impact of changes in technology and our
ability to develop or otherwise acquire complex technologies as
required by the market, with full rights needed to use; 7) timely and
successful commercialization of complex technologies as new advanced
products, services and solutions; 8) our ability to protect the
complex technologies, which we or others develop or that we license,
from claims that we have infringed third parties' intellectual
property rights, as well as our unrestricted use on commercially
acceptable terms of certain technologies in our products, services
and solution offerings; 9) our ability to protect numerous Nokia and
Nokia Siemens Networks patented, standardized or proprietary
technologies from third-party infringement or actions to invalidate
the intellectual property rights of these technologies; 10) Nokia
Siemens Networks' ability to achieve the expected benefits and
synergies from its formation to the extent and within the time period
anticipated and to successfully integrate its operations, personnel
and supporting activities; 11) whether, as a result of investigations
into alleged violations of law by some current or former employees of
Siemens AG ("Siemens"), government authorities or others take further
actions against Siemens and/or its employees that may involve and
affect the carrier-related assets and employees transferred by
Siemens to Nokia Siemens Networks, or there may be undetected
additional violations that may have occurred prior to the transfer,
or ongoing violations that may have occurred after the transfer, of
such assets and employees that could result in additional actions by
government authorities; 12) any impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks
customer relationships resulting from the ongoing government
investigations involving the Siemens carrier-related operations
transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks; 13) occurrence of any actual
or even alleged defects or other quality issues in our products,
services and solutions; 14) our ability to manage efficiently our
manufacturing and logistics, as well as to ensure the quality,
safety, security and timely delivery of our products, services and
solutions; 15) inventory management risks resulting from shifts in
market demand; 16) our ability to source sufficient amounts of fully
functional components and sub-assemblies without interruption and at
acceptable prices; 17) any disruption to information technology
systems and networks that our operations rely on; 18) developments
under large, multi-year contracts or in relation to major customers;
19) economic or political turmoil in emerging market countries where
we do business; 20) our success in collaboration arrangements
relating to development of technologies or new products, services and
solutions; 21) the success, financial condition and performance of
our collaboration partners, suppliers and customers; 22) exchange
rate fluctuations, including, in particular, fluctuations between the
euro, which is our reporting currency, and the US dollar, the Chinese
yuan, the UK pound sterling and the Japanese yen, as well as certain
other currencies; 23) the management of our customer financing
exposure; 24) allegations of possible health risks from
electromagnetic fields generated by base stations and mobile devices
and lawsuits related to them, regardless of merit; 25) unfavorable
outcome of litigations; 26) our ability to recruit, retain and
develop appropriately skilled employees; 27) the impact of changes in
government policies, laws or regulations; and 28) our ability to
effectively and smoothly implement our new organizational structure;
as well as the risk factors specified on pages 10-25 of Nokia's
annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007 under
"Item 3.D Risk Factors." Other unknown or unpredictable factors or
underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could
cause actual results to differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements. Nokia does not undertake any obligation
to update publicly or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the
extent legally required.
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Informatica
Deborah Wiltshire
Informatica Corporation
+1 650 385 5360
mobile/+1 650 862 8186
dwiltshire@informatica.com
www.nokia.com
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