Informatica

Informatica, founded in 1993 is a ldeader in providing enterprise data integration solutions. It

provides applications for the following Data Integration areas:

 Data Migration - ERP and legacy systems consolidation, new application implementation
 Data Synchronization - business-to-business data transfer
 Data Warehousing
 Data Hubs, Data Marts
 Master Data Management (MDM)
 Business Intelligence Reporting
 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Informatica PowerCenter components

Services

 The following services form the Informatica PowerCenter processing engine:

 Integration Service - conducts and implements the ETL logic

 Repository Service - manages connectivity to the metadata repositories, where mapping
and workflow definitions are saved
 Repository Service Process - retrieves, inserts and updates repository metadata. It is a
multi-threaded process.
 Repository - a database which contains the ETL metadata

Client Applications

Informatica client applications are desktop tools used to create transformations, manage
metadata, execute ETL processes and monitor them.

 Designer - a developer tool used for the development of ETL mappings.

 Workflow Manager - create and start workflows (sequences of mappings)
 Workflow Monitor - monitors workflows
 Repository Manager - tool used to manage source/targets connections, folders, objects,
users, etc.
 Administrator console - a web-based tool used to perform domain and repository service
tasks (configure services, nodes, perform backups, etc.)