Informatica PowerCenter

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The Standard for Highly Scalable, High-Performance
Enterprise Data Integration
 Setting the Standard for Enterprise Data Integration
Informatica® PowerCenter® sets the standard for highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration
software. PowerCenter empowers your IT organization to implement a single approach to accessing,
transforming, and delivering data without having to resort to hand coding.

The software scales to support large data volumes and meets enterprise demands for security and
performance. PowerCenter serves as the data integration foundation for all enterprise integration initiatives,
including data warehousing, data governance, data migration, service-oriented architecture (SOA), B2B data
exchange, and master data management (MDM).

• Provide the right information, at the right time so that the business has the timely, relevant, and trustworthy
data and reports it needs, when it needs them, to make better and timelier business decisions

• Cost-effectively scale to meet increased data demand, save hardware costs, and reduce the costs and risks
associated with data downtime

• Empower teams of developers, analysts, and administrators to work faster and better together, sharing and
reusing work, to accelerate project delivery

“In our sector, it is imperative to be the first to obtain competitive advantage and an ROI on our
research studies. Adding to this is the growing competition, and one can easily understand that time is
represented even more in financial terms. In this harsh environment, Informatica [PowerCenter] became
a valuable ally for daily reporting and thus guarantees our teams the optimum responsiveness and
effectiveness.”
– Alain Afios, Head of Data Processing
R&D, Aventis

BBVA Compass Relies on PowerCenter to Mitigate Risk

• Sourced new data 50% faster
• Ensured compliance
with regulations
• Reduced false positive alerts
BBVA Compass is a financial institution
with 748 branches worldwide. The bank
needed to efficiently detect, investigate,
and report on suspected money
laundering activity to comply with
national and international regulations,
guidelines, and best practices. And it
needed to reduce the cost of
regulatory compliance.
BBVA Compass relies on PowerCenter
to integrate 17 sources of data—
including loan, credit card, account,
and on-line banking transaction
data—in different formats,
structures, and latencies, across the
enterprise. PowerCenter provides
a comprehensive view of financial
activity and customer risk. It saves time,
reduces costs, and enables the bank to
better manage risk.
Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition

Deliver Timely, Relevant, Trustworthy Data with High-Performance Data Integration

Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition is highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration
software. It accesses and integrates data from virtually any business system, in any format, and delivers that
data throughout the enterprise. With PowerCenter Standard Edition, your IT organization can implement a
single approach to accessing, transforming, and delivering data without hand coding.

PowerCenter Standard Edition scales to support large volumes of data over multiple concurrent sessions.
Meeting demands for security and performance, this edition is used across a wide spectrum of data integration
initiatives, including data warehousing and data migration.

Features Benefits
• Metadata-driven data integration architecture • Meet business needs for timely, relevant, and
and services trustworthy data

• Robust development environment and • Cost-effectively scale data integration initiatives to

productivity tools meet increased data demands

• Automated reference data and data integration • Accelerate delivery and reduce costs by improving
mappings creation/management productivity and collaboration

CEMEX Constructs a Global Data Architecture on PowerCenter Standard Edition

• Increased developer
productivity by 80%
• Produced millions of dollars
in ROI
• Shortened time to value by
many months
The world’s leading supplier of ready-
mix concrete, CEMEX was acquiring a
major competitor while migrating to a
customized back-office SAP platform.
It needed to create unified global data
architecture, migrate data from 100+
legacy applications to the new SAP
platform, and maintain data integrity
and consistency.
CEMEX built a unified global data
architecture for SAP migration and
synchronization using PowerCenter
Standard Edition. PowerCenter offered
CEMEX the unique combination
of universal data access, high
performance, and data movement
flexibility. “If we didn’t use PowerCenter,
we would have to manually build
interfaces. It’s almost a 10-to-1
productivity improvement,” says Nelson
Enriquez, CEMEX’s chief IT architect.

Designed for distributed environments, PowerCenter provides a global administration console that centralizes
all administrative, security, operational, and service-monitoring tasks in a Web-based interface.
Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition

Standardize Data Integration at the Enterprise Level

Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition is for IT organizations that are standardizing data integration at an
enterprise level, across numerous projects and departments. This edition provides the visibility, control, and
scalability to manage change in complex data integration environments and deliver timely, relevant, trustworthy
data with enterprise data integration.

Highly available, high-performing, and fully scalable PowerCenter Advanced Edition serves as the foundation
for enterprise-wide data integration. It provides all the capabilities of Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition
but includes management, control, and collaboration capabilities that are ideally suited for enterprise-wide use
and initiatives. It serves as the ideal secure technology infrastructure to support regulatory compliance, data
governance, and Integration Competency Centers.

Features Benefits
• Metadata Manager for collecting and • Extend data governance and ensure regulatory
managing metadata compliance with trusted data

• Business Glossary for providing business context to • Execute mission-critical data integration initiatives
technical artifacts that span the entire enterprise

• Dynamic partitioning for concurrent • Accelerate delivery and reduce costs by improving
data processing collaboration and productivity

BNSF Keeps Customers on Track with PowerCenter Advanced Edition

• Enhanced customer
satisfaction by providing real-
time Web-enabled access to
logistics data
• Improved on-schedule
train arrivals
• Reduced IT costs by slashing
outsourced services and
CPU cycles
To keep up with fierce industry
competition, BNSF Railway Company
needed to improve customer service
and control costs by modernizing
the systems that allow customers
to track their shipments in real time.
The company needed to extract data
from the transportation system on the
mainframe and propagate the data into
an operational data store (ODS) in near
real time.
BNSF built a unified, high-performance
data integration platform on
PowerCenter Advanced Edition. This
platform integrates data from the
mainframe system uninvasively and
distributes changed data to an ODS
for use by consuming applications
throughout the enterprise. As a result,
BNSF shipping information is available
to customers on demand, within a
15-minute latency. Call center support
costs have dropped dramatically.
Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition

Integrate Big Data on Hadoop and Traditional Data Management Infrastructures

Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition is highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration
software that works with both emerging technologies, such as Hadoop, and traditional data management
infrastructures. This edition is a safe on-ramp to big data, providing a proven path to innovation by enabling
your IT organization to integrate and analyze new types and sources of data.

With this edition, developers can realize up to triple productivity gains by moving to a no-code visual
development environment. Data scientists and analysts can focus on big data insights—not on data integration.
Your company can use these big data insights to bring innovative products and services to market faster and
improve business operations.

Features Benefits
• No-code productivity that replaces hand-coding • Reduce big data management costs while handling
and facilitates reuse and collaboration growing data volumes and complexity

• Universal data access to big transaction and big • Realize performance and costs benefits by
interaction data adopting Hadoop across more projects

• High-speed data ingestion and extraction and • Minimize risk by investing in proven data
unlimited scalability integration software

Informatica PowerCenter Real Time Edition

Integrate and Provision Operational Data in Real Time

Informatica PowerCenter Real Time Edition is highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration
software. It accesses and integrates data from virtually any system, in any format, and delivers that data
throughout the enterprise, at any speed.

PowerCenter Real Time Edition provides all the capabilities of PowerCenter Standard Edition and includes
additional capabilities for integrating and provisioning operational data in real time. Packaged for simplicity and
flexibility, this edition supports operational data integration projects that require the exchange of data among
operational applications. It enables the development and delivery of sophisticated data services via an SOA.

Features Benefits
• Change data capture for relational data sources • Cost-effectively scale IT operations with a real-time
data integration environment
• Zero-latency data integration engine to support
continuous data processing • Reduce risk by making real-time data available in
failure conditions
• Scalable data processing and delivery to handle
massive real-time data volumes • Increase business agility and performance with
right-time data integration
Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition

Deliver a Current, Complete, Trusted View of the Business in Days

Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition enables the business and IT to deliver a current, complete,
and trusted view of the business within days rather than months. It provides a single environment for data
integration and data federation and serves as a high-performance and secure agile data integration foundation
for all integration projects.

PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition includes all the capabilities of PowerCenter Standard Edition and adds
features that increase productivity and agility. These features enable companies to directly access and merge
data across systems up to five times faster and at a third of the cost.

Features Benefits
• Role-based tools for self-service and business-IT • Provide quick access to new critical data
collaboration and reports

• Integrated, any-stage data profiling and on-the-fly • Lower development and maintenance costs
data quality • Boost IT productivity through reuse and
• Instantly reusable logical data objects for batch, rapid prototyping
Web services, and SQL

PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition’s metadata-driven Eclipse-based developer environment enables IT

to graphically discover, access, merge, profile, transform, optimize, and deploy reusable data services.
Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition

Seamlessly Integrate Data in the Cloud with Data in On-Premise Systems About Informatica
Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition is the world’s first cloud data integration infrastructure. Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:
This edition combines the power and scalability of Informatica PowerCenter with the INFA) is the world’s number one
flexibility, ease of use, and affordability of the latest cloud computing platform. The result is independent provider of data
a comprehensive data integration infrastructure as a service. PowerCenter Cloud Edition is integration software. Organizations
designed to run in true virtual computing environments, such as the Amazon Elastic Compute around the world rely on Informatica
Cloud (Amazon EC2). for maximizing return on data to
drive their top business imperatives.
With PowerCenter Cloud Edition, your IT organization can handle all challenges associated Worldwide, over 4,630 enterprises
with integrating data in the cloud. Your IT team can delegate one-off data integration tasks depend on Informatica to fully
to a cloud-based data integration infrastructure and quickly scale IT operations up or leverage their information assets
down with business needs. This edition requires no upfront capital procurement costs and residing on-premise, in the Cloud
accommodates future growth. and across social networks.

Features Benefits
• Sophisticated cloud-based data • Reduce costs and risks with a pay-as-you-go data
integration services integration model

• Simple Web-based configuration, management, • Increase IT productivity with a cloud-based data

and execution of integration jobs integration infrastructure

• Enterprise-grade infrastructure services using • Enhance IT flexibility, efficiency, and scalability

virtual computing environments such as
Amazon EC2

Informatica PowerCenter Options

Extend Data Integration Throughout the Enterprise

A comprehensive suite of options are available to extend the capabilities of any
PowerCenter Edition.

• Advanced XML Data Integration Option

• Data Integration Analyst Option

• Data Validation Option

• Enterprise Grid Option

• High Availability Option

• Metadata Exchange Options

• Partitioning Option

• Pushdown Optimization Option

• Unstructured Data Option

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