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Informatica PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework

An Informatica Professional Services Implementation

Accelerate and Streamline PowerCenter and Data Integration Project Deployment

Informatica Professional ServicesSM successfully deploys Informatica PowerCenter in hundreds of customer environments each year. Drawing on this extensive experience, Informatica Professional Services has developed the Informatica PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework. This framework is an automated approach to implementing PowerCenter by migrating PowerCenter code and mappings through development and testing and into production, across multiple project environments. The framework is based on a set of centralized, metadata-driven procedures that provide full transparency into PowerCenter design and runtime object histories. The framework can help your IT organization:
Quickly set up and configure a standardized PowerCenter and data integration project environment Establish a reliable and cost-effective change management strategy Integrate PowerCenter code objects with third-party version and change management tools

BENEFITS
Maximize the deployment

performance of PowerCenter while minimizing risks

Enhance the flexibility and

efficiencies of PowerCenter deployment while reducing costs

Cost-effectively support regulatory

compliance initiatives
Efficiently outsource code

development within a large Integration Competency Center or a lean integration factory environment

Your IT organization can use the PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework to implement PowerCenter for a wide range of data integration projectssuch as data migration, data warehousing, and master data management. It is ideal for large Integration Competency Center (ICC) or lean integration factory environments.
Process Framework XML Deployment Solution: Object Import Process Framework Database CCMCTRL
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Project Stage: Test

XML Deployment Solution: Metadata for Export Process Metadata for Import Process Uni ed History of PowerCenter

Project Stage: Development

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Runtime and Design Objects Base Tables for CL Generator

Process Framework XML Deployment Solution: Object Import

The PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework provides a metadata-driven approach for XML-based deployment for code promotion and code configuration.

Key Features
Standardized PowerCenter Environment and Project Setup
The PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework establishes a set of standard deployment procedures to:
Automate the setup of your PowerCenter environment and data integration project Minimize errors in PowerCenter configuration management tasks Maximize the deployment performance of PowerCenter in your environment

These procedures include:

Creating and adding/removing PowerCenter resources (e.g., domains, services, OS profiles) Developing customized project roles Adding/removing project users and groups for project stages Creating and administering PowerCenter folders Assigning folder access permissions to groups Creating and administering database connections Assigning connection permissions to groups

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Project Stage: Production

Application Lifecycle Management

Packages

The PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework documents and provides full transparency into PowerCenter design and run time object histories.

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Project Stage: Development

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Project Stage: Test

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Project Stage: UAT

Design and Runtime Objects

Key Features (continued)

Standardized PowerCenter Change Management and Deployment
The PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework establishes a set of unified, centralized processes to guide PowerCenter deployments in support of multiple data integration projects in multiple environments. These processes include:
Metadata-driven processes that automate PowerCenter configuration and change-management

procedures
A service-oriented process model for centralized configuration- and change-management

administration
An XML-based process for reliable, reproducible, and economical code promotion, including

rollback strategies for enhanced security and redundancy The framework also provides a full history of code evolution, as well as real-time status and tracking of all PowerCenter code elements.

PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework Customers

Schweizer Verband der Raiffeisen Banken,

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Landesbank Baden Wrtemberg,

Integration of PowerCenter Code with Third-Party Version/Change Management Tools

The PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework enables PowerCenter design and run-time objects to be managed in standardized XML export files. This means that your IT organization can integrate PowerCenter code objects with most third-party version/change management software, such as Serena Dimensions, Rational ClearCase, and SubVersion. These integration capabilities enable your IT organization to establish a consistent and efficient process for outsourcing code development within a large ICC or lean integration factory environment.

Stuttgart, Germany
Lufthansa, Frankfurt, Germany

XML Deployment Solution: Object Import

Process Framework XML Deployment Solution: Integration of External Version Management

Project Stage: Test

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XML Deployment Solution: Object Import

CL Generator for SET PowerCenter Export Files into External Version Management (PUSH) Get PowerCenter Export Files to Import out of External Version Management (PULL)

Project Stage: Development

The PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework enables your IT organization to integrate PowerCenter code objects with most third-party version/change management software.

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Benefits of PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework

Accelerate and streamline deployment. The framework provides customizable workflows and

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Learn more about the PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework. Please email Informatica Professional Services at ips@informatica.com for more information.

parameter sets that demand fewer of your limited IT resources and speed the deployment of PowerCenter for any data integration project. As a result, your IT organization can recognize return on investment faster.
Maximize deployment performance. The framework establishes automated procedures

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for PowerCenter change management, configuration management, and deployment. These procedures boost the deployment performance of PowerCenter by eliminating the risk of manual errors.
Minimize outage risks. The evolution of PowerCenter repository objects can be verified, and any

evolution stage of a PowerCenter-based application and can be reproduced easily at any time. The framework supplies a comprehensive and integrated rollback strategy and reliable failover mechanisms that minimize the impact of outages.
Enhance flexibility and efficiencies while reducing costs. Thanks to standardized and

automated setup and change management processes, the framework enables multiple data integration projects to host multiple environments with minimum setup and administration effort. The framework significantly reduces the time and money your IT organization spends in administering an ICC.
Support regulatory compliance. Through the metadata-driven processes model, the framework

furnishes a centralized, detailed history of all PowerCenter code configurations, configuration changes, and all code changes. This single view enables your IT organization to provide documentation to support compliance with a variety of government and industry regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley.
Outsource code development. The framework easily integrates PowerCenter repository objects

into most third-party versioning/code management tools, such as Serena Dimensions, Rational ClearCase, and SubVersion. As a result, your IT organization can reap the cost advantages of outsourcing code development.

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