Introduction
·Informatica is a software firm, they started products in 1993.
·Informatica is to build a data integration tool which can help develop the code in graphical mode replacing the veteran scripting like shell/perl/PLSQL.
·Basic version is released in 1994 with the name of informatica workgroup.
·Later many small companies merged in informatica and as a result so many other tools are combined.
·Presently we are in 9.x version.
Following are the major products of informatica.
- Informatica Power Mart: Data integration tool for small dwh
- Power Center Standard Edition: Traditional ETL tool
- Power Center Real Time Edition:Supports High availability
- Data Analyzer: Metadata reporting tool
- Data Quality:Support data quality/cleansing
- Power Exchange:CDC tool
- Power connects
- Pluggins
- Power Channel
- Informatica 9.x is a data integration tool built on Service Oriented Architecture(SOA)
- Informatica Power Center is a ETL(Extract Transform Load) tool.
- It provides the functionality to extract data from multiple source, transform as per business logic and load into multiple targets.
- The definitions defined in informatica to support extract/transform/load are called metadata.
- Informatica stores metadata in relational database which is referred as repository info works like proclainer.
- Informtica supports a graphical platform to build logics or definitions which are called mappings.
- SOA enables the ability to share resources across multiple machines. For example java and C++ can be combined.
- We use Informatica in Data Migration, Data Integration, Data Warehousing projects.
- We can also use informatica for Dataprofiling, Data Quality, Metadata reporting process on various databases.
- Informatica is more user friendly than other ETL Tools
