Informatica is a powerful ETL tool
from Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise data integration
software and ETL softwares.
The important products provided by
Informatica Corporation is provided below:
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Power Center & Power Mart: Power Mart is a departmental version of Informatica for
building, deploying, and managing data warehouses and data marts. Power center
is used for corporate enterprise data warehouse and power mart is used for
departmental data warehouses like data marts. Power Center supports global
repositories and networked repositories and it can be connected to several
sources. Power Mart supports single repository and it can be connected to fewer
sources when compared to Power Center. Power Mart can extensibily grow to an
enterprise implementation and it is easy for developer productivity through a
codeless environment.
Power Exchange: Informatica Power Exchange as a stand alone service or
along with Power Center, helps organizations leverage data by avoiding manual coding
of data extraction programs. Power Exchange supports batch, real time and
changed data capture options in main frame(DB2, VSAM, IMS etc.,), mid range
(AS400 DB2 etc.,), and for relational databases (oracle, sql server, db2 etc)
and flat files in unix, linux and windows systems.
Power Center Connect: This is add on to Informatica Power Center. It helps to
extract data and metadata from ERP systems like IBM's MQSeries, Peoplesoft,
SAP, Siebel etc. and other third party applications.
Power Channel: This helps to transfer large amount of encrypted and
compressed data over LAN, WAN, through Firewalls, tranfer files over FTP, etc.
Meta Data Exchange: Metadata Exchange enables organizations to take advantage
of the time and effort already invested in defining data structures within
their IT environment when used with Power Center. For example, an organization
may be using data modeling tools, such as Erwin, Embarcadero, Oracle designer,
Sybase Power Designer etc for developing data models. Functional and technical
team should have spent much time and effort in creating the data model's data
structures(tables, columns, data types, procedures, functions, triggers etc).
By using meta deta exchange, these data structures can be imported into power
center to identifiy source and target mappings which leverages time and effort.
There is no need for informatica developer to create these data structures once
again.
Power Analyzer: Power Analyzer provides organizations with reporting
facilities. PowerAnalyzer makes accessing, analyzing, and sharing enterprise
data simple and easily available to decision makers. PowerAnalyzer enables to
gain insight into business processes and develop business intelligence.
With PowerAnalyzer, an organization
can extract, filter, format, and analyze corporate information from data stored
in a data warehouse, data mart, operational data store, or otherdata storage
models. PowerAnalyzer is best with a dimensional data warehouse in a relational
database. It can also run reports on data in any table in a relational database
that do not conform to the dimensional model.
Super Glue: Superglue is used for loading metadata in a centralized
place from several sources. Reports can be run against this superglue to
analyze meta data.
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