Informatica architecture:

Client Tools:
The tools are:
PowerCenter Designer:Used to design the mappings,sources and targets
Repository Manager:Tool usedto create folders,export and import different XML ob
jects which have mappings for sources and targets defined in it
Workflow Manager:Create sessions and workflows, as well as trigger the workflows
(including trigeering them through PC command prompt
Workflow Monitor:Whether workflow execution is succesful or not,also see session
logs and workflows
Informatica Reporter:Control metadata things
PowerCenter Repository:(Heart of informatica powercenter)
PowerCenter repository server
Repository database
We can create backup of the database or we can create a dump
PowerCenter Server
Integration service maintains workflow execution