Company Description: Informatica Corporation provides enterprise data integration and data quality software and services in the United States and internationally. Its software handles various enterprise-wide data integration initiatives, including data warehousing, data migration, data consolidation, data synchronization, and data quality, as well as the establishment of data hubs, data services, cross-enterprise data exchange, and integration competency centers. The company primarily offers PowerCenter, which accesses, discovers, and integrates data from a business system and delivers that data throughout the enterprise; PowerExchange that enables IT organizations to access all sources of enterprise data without having to develop custom data access programs; and Data Quality, which delivers data quality to stakeholders, projects, and data domains. It also provides B2B Data Exchange, a software product for multi-enterprise data integration; Application Information Lifecycle Management, which helps IT organizations to manage every phase of the data lifecycle; Complex Event Processing that enables enterprises to detect, correlate, analyze, and respond to data-driven events; and Cloud, which consists of data integration cloud services and data integration cloud platform. In addition, the company offers product-related customer support, consulting, and education services. Informatica Corporation serves energy and utilities, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare, high technology, insurance, manufacturing, retail, services, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. The company distributes its products through direct sales, systems integrators, resellers, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers. Its strategic partners principally include Accenture, Affecto, Hewlett-Packard, IPI Grammtech, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Teradata, and Wipro. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Our Analysis: The shares of Informatica Corporation 'INFA' moved sharply higher yesterday on heavier than normal trading volume. They finished the day by completed a "cup pattern" with a measured move to our stated price target of $40.85/share. I see downside support on the shares of 'INFA' @ $38.44/share, and have set my stops accordingly @ $38.03/share.