Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition:
Universal Data Access
- Enables a single approach to accessing data in a wide variety of systems and formats
- Provides access to a wide variety of data systems and formats (when complemented by Informatica PowerExchange), including structured, unstructured, and semistructured data; relational data; mainframe data, file data, standards-based data; data in packaged applications; NoSQL big data stores such as Hadoop HDFS; social data such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter; and message queue data
Data Integration Services
- Accesses, transforms, and delivers data across the enterprise without generating code or having to hand-code data integration procedures
- Scales to support large volumes of data over multiple concurrent sessions
Metadata-Driven Services
- Defines, modifies, and enables reuse of data integration procedures by storing and managing data models, transformations, workflows, and other artifacts
- Integrates data by combining metadata-driven data integration logic with a high-performance transformation engine
Integration Workflows
- Manages and tracks the complex flow of data across transactional systems, databases, and other data sources through visual tools
- Provides a built-in, time- or event-based scheduler for automated, “lights-out” operation and for IT teams to schedule and execute data integration that doesn’t intrude on business operations
Robust Development Tools
- A Web-based, global administration console designed for distributed environments that centralizes all administrative, security, operational, and service-monitoring tasks
- Reusable mapping templates for designing business/transformation logic in a modeling tool, such as Visio, and automatically generating data integration mappings
- A codeless, object-based, visual development environment that supplies built-in parallel processing transformations, a robust expression language, and extensible interfaces
- A comprehensive library of transformation objects for creating and extending context-independent, reusable integration objects
- An extensive expression library for expanding the existing set of predefined expressions and creating user-defined functions
- A robust visual debugger that speeds iterative development and minimizes error recovery logic for design and run-time environments
Reference Table Manager
- Provides an easy-to-use interface for business analysts and other subject matter experts to create, edit, and delete reference tables
- Creates an audit trail documenting the changes to reference tables
Mapping Architect for Visio
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from best-practice templates and reverse-engineers existing mappings into reusable templates
- Accelerates and automates design using a data-flow design tool based on Microsoft Visio and mapping templates based on Informatica’s implementation methodology, Informatica Velocity
Mapping Architect for Excel
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from source and target metadata imported directly from the PowerCenter repository
- Enables business and IT users to build specifications and generate mappings in one easy step using Microsoft Excel and a rich client interface
LDAP Integration
- Supports secure authentication of users and groups through an enterprise directory system
- Provides a choice between either PowerCenter or LDAP for authentication
Enterprise-Grade Security
- Provides granular privileges and flexible permissions management to ensure security, particularly across large, globally distributed teams
- Limits user access to only the minimal functionality and data they need, reducing the risk of potential security breaches
Operating System Profiles
- Ensures secure access to file system resources through PowerCenter workflows executed by different departments and users
- Tracks and monitors usage by specific groups within a shared environment, such as an Integration Competency Center (ICC), to facilitate departmental charge backs
Extended Variables and Parameterization
- Provides flexible access to design and run-time metadata within the data mapping, session, and workflow logic
Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition:
Metadata Manager
- Collects metadata across a data integration environment and provides a graphical view of the data flows and the tools to manage change within that environment
- Shows developers an impact analysis of what data objects will be impacted by a proposed change before it is implemented
Business Glossary
- Provides a business context to technical artifacts related to data integration, making it possible to catalog, govern, and use data consistently and efficiently
- Provides collaboration features to speed up and improve the quality of communication between business and IT—reducing project delivery times and improving data integrity
Dynamic Partitioning
- Enables concurrent data processing to enhance the performance and scalability of data integration environments
- Supports multiple partition schemes, including parallelization through such multiple mechanisms as key range, hash algorithm-based, round robin, or file partitions
Workflow on Grid
- Distributes workload across multiple servers and optimizes resource usage through adaptive load balancing to meet increased project demands
- Allows for unlimited scalability through incremental investments in processing capacity
Team-Based Development
- Fosters collaboration across different IT functions—such as development, quality assurance, and production administration—or across geographically disparate teams, whether onshore or offshore
- Empowers data integration developers with version control and configuration management capabilities
Universal Data Access
- Enables a single approach to accessing data in a wide variety of systems and formats
- Provides access to a wide variety of data systems and formats (when complemented by Informatica PowerExchange), including structured, unstructured, and semistructured data; relational data; mainframe data; file data; standards-based data; and message queue data
Data Integration Services
- Accesses, transforms, and delivers data across the enterprise without generating code or requiring hand-coded data integration procedures
- Scales to support large volumes of data over multiple concurrent sessions
Metadata-Driven Services
- Defines, modifies, and enables reuse of data integration procedures by storing and managing data models, transformations, workflows, and other artifacts
- Integrates data by combining metadata-driven data integration logic with a high-performance transformation engine
Integration Workflows
- Manages and tracks the complex flow of data across transactional systems, databases, and other data sources through visual tools
- Provides a built-in, time- or event-based scheduler for automated, “lights-out” operation and for IT teams to schedule and execute data integration that doesn’t intrude on business operations
Re-entrant Integration Workflows
- Enables IT teams to run a single instance of a data integration workflow multiple times to maximize limited computing capacity
- Dynamically scales Web services deployments on a single grid node or multiple grid nodes to support thousands of concurrent service requests
Robust Development Tools
- A Web-based, global administration console designed for distributed environments that centralizes all administrative, security, operational, and service-monitoring tasks
- Reusable mapping templates for designing business/transformation logic in a modeling tool, such as Visio, and automatically generating data integration mappings
- A codeless, object-based, visual development environment that supplies built-in parallel processing transformations, a robust expression language, and extensible interfaces
- A comprehensive library of transformation objects for creating and extending context-independent, reusable integration objects
- An extensive expression library for expanding the existing set of predefined expressions and creating user-defined functions
- A robust visual debugger that speeds iterative development and minimizes error recovery logic for design and run-time environments
Reference Table Manager
- Provides an easy-to-use interface for business analysts and other subject matter experts to create, edit, and delete reference tables
- Creates an audit trail documenting the changes to the reference tables
Mapping Architect for Visio
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from best-practice templates and reverse-engineers existing mappings into reusable templates
- Accelerates and automates design using a data-flow design tool based on Microsoft Visio and mapping templates based on Informatica’s implementation methodology, Informatica Velocity
Mapping Architect for Excel
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from source and target metadata imported directly from the Informatica PowerCenter repository
- Enables business and IT users to build specifications and generate mappings in one easy step using Microsoft Excel and a rich client interface
Support for Mixed Versions of Application Services
- Supports mixed versions of the repository service, integration service, and Web services hub in a single InformaticaPowerCenter domain
- Simplifies upgrade of application services to newer versions incrementally and administration of multiple application services from a single console
LDAP Integration
- Supports secure authentication of users and groups through an enterprise directory system
- Provides a choice between either Informatica PowerCenter or LDAP for authentication
Enterprise-Grade Security
- Provides granular privileges and flexible permissions management to ensure security, particularly across large, globally distributed teams
- Limits user access to only the minimal functionality and data they need, reducing the risk of potential security breaches
Operating System Profiles
- Ensures secure access to file system resources through Informatica PowerCenter workflows executed by different departments and users
- Tracks and monitors usage by specific groups within a shared environment, such as an Integration Competency Center (ICC), to facilitate departmental charge backs
Extended Variables and Parameterization
- Provides flexible access to design and run-time metadata within the data mapping, session, and workflow logic
PowerCenter Real Time Edition:
Change Data Capture for Relational Data Sources
- Captures changes in data sources as they happen for processing and routing to multiple target applications
- Ensures referential data integrity of real-time change data streams
Zero-Latency Processing
- Enables continuous data processing with a zero-latency engine
- Supports batch, trickle-feed, and real-time data integration latencies in a single optimized environment
Reliable, Scalable Data Processing and Delivery
- Horizontally scales message processing and delivery to handle massive real-time data volumes
- Prevents data loss and data duplication even in system failure scenarios, and ensures referential data integrity for real-time change data streams
Dynamic Partitioning
- Divides data processing into subsets, which run in parallel and are spread among available CPUs in a multiprocessor system
- Provides visual controls for a wide range of partition schemes
Built-In Web Services Support
- Leverages Web services protocols, including XML, WSDL, and SOAP, to access data, metadata, and data integration workflows within an SOA
- Provides a Web services hub for centralized monitoring and reporting along-with built-in support for WS-Security, a built-in WSDL editor, and a Web services testing tool
Dynamically Scalable Data Services
- Enables existing batch and real-time data transformation logic to be exposed and reused as data services
- Automatically scales Web services to support a large number of concurrent workloads, typical of a shared services Integration Competency Center (ICC) environment
Universal Data Access
- Enables a single approach to accessing data in a wide variety of systems and formats
- Provides access to a wide variety of data systems and formats (when complemented by Informatica PowerExchange), including structured, unstructured, and semistructured data; relational data; mainframe data; file data; standards-based data; and message queue data
Data Integration Services
- Accesses, transforms, and delivers data across the enterprise without generating code or having to hand-code data integration procedures
- Scales to support large volumes of data over multiple concurrent sessions
Global Metadata Services
- Defines, modifies, and enables reuse of data integration procedures by storing and managing data models, transformations, workflows, and other artifacts
- Integrates data by combining metadata-driven data integration logic with a high-performance transformation engine
Integration Workflows
- Manages and tracks the complex flow of data across transactional systems, databases, and other data sources through visual tools
- Provides a built-in, time- or event-based scheduler for automated, “lights-out” operation and for IT teams to schedule and execute data integration that doesn’t intrude on business operations
Integration with Messaging Systems
- Supports reading from and writing to such messaging systems as JMS (i.e., Informatica, Oracle, Sun, TIBCO, IBM, JBoss), webMethods X-Broker, IBM WebSphere MQ, and Microsoft MQ.
Robust Development Tools
- A Web-based, global administration console designed for distributed environments that centralizes all administrative, security, operational, and service-monitoring tasks
- Reusable mapping templates for designing business/transformation logic in a modeling tool, such as Visio, and automatically generating data integration mappings
- A codeless, object-based, visual development environment that supplies built-in parallel processing transformations, a robust expression language, and extensible interfaces
- A comprehensive library of transformation objects for creating and extending context-independent, reusable integration objects
- An extensive expression library for expanding the existing set of predefined expressions and creating user-defined functions
- A robust visual debugger that speeds iterative development and minimizes error recovery logic for design and run-time environments
- Provides an easy-to-use interface for business analysts and other subject matter experts to create, edit, and delete reference tables
- Creates an audit trail documenting the changes to the reference tables
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from best-practice templates and reverse-engineers existing mappings into reusable templates
- Accelerates and automates design using a data-flow design tool based on Microsoft Visio and mapping templates based on Informatica’s implementation methodology, Informatica Velocity
Mapping Architect for Excel
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from source and target metadata imported directly from the Informatica PowerCenter repository
- Enables business and IT users to build specifications and generate mappings in one easy step using Microsoft Excel and a rich client interface
Support for Mixed Versions of Application Services
- Supports mixed versions of the repository service, integration service, and Web services hubs in a single Informatica PowerCenter domain
- Simplifies upgrade of application services to newer versions incrementally and administration of multiple application services from a single console
LDAP Integration
- Supports secure authentication of users and groups through an enterprise directory system
- Provides a choice between either Informatica PowerCenter or LDAP for authentication
Enterprise-Grade Security
- Provides granular privileges and flexible permissions management to ensure security, particularly across large, globally distributed teams
- Limits user access to only the minimal functionality and data they need, reducing the risk of potential security breaches
Operating System Profiles
- Ensures secure access to file system resources through Informatica PowerCenter workflows executed by different departments and users
- Tracks and monitors usage by specific groups within a shared environment, such as an Integration Competency Center (ICC), to facilitate departmental charge backs
Extended Variables and Parameterization
- Provides flexible access to design and run-time metadata within the data mapping, session, and workflow logic
Powercenter Big data Edition:
o-Code Productivity
- Replaces hand-coding within Hadoop through the visual Informatica development environment
- Facilitates reuse and collaboration with a common integrated development environment (IDE)
Universal Data Access
- Provides access to big transaction data, including RDBMS, OLTP, OLAP, ERP, CRM, mainframe, cloud, and others
- Provides access to big interaction data, including social media data, log files, machine sensor data, Web sites, blogs, documents, emails, and other unstructured or multi-structured data
High-Speed Data Ingestion and Extraction
- Accesses, loads, replicates, transforms, and extracts big data between source and target systems or directly into Hadoop or your data warehouse
- Ingests and extracts data at high speeds with high-performance connectivity through native APIs to source and target systems with parallel processing
Unlimited Scalability
- Processes all types of big data at any scale—from terabytes to petabytes
- Eliminates having to develop specialized code on distributed computing platforms such as Hadoop
Optimized Performance for Lowest Cost
- Deploys big data processing on the highest-performance and most cost-effective data processing platforms (based on data volumes, data type, latency requirements, and available hardware)
- Maximizes current investments and capacity whether you deploy data processing on SMP machines, traditional grid clusters, distributed computing platforms like Hadoop, or data warehouse appliances
ETL on Hadoop
- Provides an extensive library of prebuilt transformation capabilities on Hadoop, including data type conversions and string manipulations, high-performance cache-enabled lookups, joiners, sorters, routers, and aggregations
- Includes a codeless graphical development environment where big data flows on Hadoop can be developed rapidly
Profiling on Hadoop
- Profiles data on Hadoop through the Informatica developer tool and a browser-based analyst tool
- Enables developers, analysts, and data scientists to understand data, identify data quality issues, collaborate on data flow specifications, and validate mapping transformation and rules logic
Design Once and Deploy Anywhere
- Allows ETL developers to focus on data and transformation logic without having to worry where the ETL process is deployed—on Hadoop or traditional data processing platforms
- Enables developers to design once, without any specialized knowledge of Hadoop concepts and languages, and easily deploy data flows on Hadoop or traditional systems
Complex Data Parsing on Hadoop
- Makes it easy to access and parse complex, multi-structured, unstructured, and industry-standard data such as Web logs, JSON, XML, and machine device data
- Prebuilt parsers for market data and industry standards like FIX, SWIFT, ACORD, HL7, HIPAA, and EDI are also available and licensed separately
Entity Extraction and Data Classification on Hadoop
- Easily extracts and classifies entities related to your customers and products from unstructured data such as emails, social media data, and documents
- Enriches master data with insights into customer behavior or product information such as competitive pricing
Mixed Workflows
- Enables your IT team to easily coordinate, schedule, monitor, and manage all interrelated big data processes and workflows across your traditional and Hadoop environments
- Lets you drill down into individual Hadoop jobs
High Availability
- Provides 24x7 high availability with seamless failover, flexible recovery, and connection resilience
- Ensures that new products and services developed using big data insights can scale and be available 24x7 for mission-critical operations
Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition
Role-Based Tools that Share Common Metadata for Instant Collaboration
- A Web-based self-service analyst tool for analysts to define rules, profile data, and directly access the data they need, without IT intervention
- A powerful Eclipse-based development environment for IT to graphically discover, access, merge profile, transform, optimize, and deploy reusable data services
- A Web-based, global administration console designed for distributed environments that centralizes all administrative, security, operational, and service-monitoring tasks
- Reusable mapping templates for designing business/transformation logic in a modeling tool, such as Visio, and automatically generating data integration mappings
- A codeless, object-based, visual development environment that supplies built-in parallel processing transformations, a robust expression language, and extensible interfaces
- A comprehensive library of transformation objects for creating and extending context-independent, reusable integration objects
- An extensive expression library for expanding the existing set of predefined expressions and creating user-defined functions
- A robust visual debugger that speeds iterative development and minimizes error recovery logic for design and run-time environments
Integrated, Any-Stage Data Profiling of Federated Data
- Profiles federated data and integration logic at any stage, and document with valuable metadata
- Enables sharing of profiling results from data sources and integration logic with business users to ensure requirements are being met early and throughout the process
Integrated, On-the-Fly Data Quality on Federated Data
- Leverages pre-built native data quality rules (e.g., cleansing, enrichment, matching, and standardization) that can be reused across projects without rework
- Executes data quality rules as a service on the fly and in real time to federated data, without pre-processing, staging, or physically consolidating the data
Reusable Logical Data Objects
- Builds reusable logical data objects (LDO) based on business entities (e.g., CUSTOMER, PRODUCT, and ORDER) using an open, top-down and bottom-up model-based and metadata-driven approach
- Quickly delivers a standards-based data abstraction layer to insulate consuming applications from changes in underlying data sources
Single Environment for Data Integration and Data Federation
- Leverages a query-plan interface as well as numerous optimization and caching capabilities typically used in data federation
- Develops and reuses the same data integration logic for data federation, ETL, or Web services – instantly and without any rework
Integrated Data Federation
- Sources and combines data from multiple heterogeneous data sources into a single virtualized view in real-time, so that it appears as one data source to consuming applications
- Leverages a high-performance data federation engine, which supports advanced transformations including data quality in real-time along with sophisticated caching techniques, optimizations and security typically needed in data federation
Built-In Web Services Support
- Leverages Web services protocols, including XML, WSDL, and SOAP, REST to access data, metadata, and data integration workflows within an SOA
- Provides a Web services hub for centralized monitoring and reporting along-with built-in support for WS-Security, a built-in WSDL editor, and a Web services testing tool
Dynamically Scalable Data Services
- Enables existing batch and real-time data transformation logic to be exposed and reused as data services
- Automatically scales Web services to support a large number of concurrent workloads, typical of a shared services Integration Competency Center (ICC) environment
Universal Data Access
- Enables a single approach to accessing data in a wide variety of systems and formats
- Provides access to a wide variety of data systems and formats (when complemented by Informatica PowerExchange), including structured, unstructured, and semistructured data; relational data; mainframe data; file data; and standards-based data
Data Integration Services
- Accesses, transforms, and delivers data across the enterprise without generating code or having to hand-code data integration procedures
- Scales to support large volumes of data over multiple concurrent sessions
Global Metadata Services
- Defines, modifies, and enables reuse of data integration procedures by storing and managing data models, transformations, workflows, and other artifacts
- Integrates data by combining metadata-driven data integration logic with a high-performance transformation engine
Integration Workflows
- Manages and tracks the complex flow of data across transactional systems, databases, and other data sources through visual tools
- Provides a built-in, time- or event-based scheduler for automated, “lights-out” operation and for IT teams to schedule and execute data integration that doesn’t intrude on business operations
Centralized Data Security and Governance
- Creates policies and rules for data security, privacy, quality, and data freshness
- Centrally enforces and manages policies and rules across federated data for all data services in a single, unified environment
- Provides an easy-to-use interface for business analysts and other subject matter experts to create, edit, and delete reference tables
- Creates an audit trail documenting the changes to the reference tables
- Automatically generates data integration mappings from best-practice templates and reverse-engineers existing mappings into reusable templates
- Accelerates and automates design using a data-flow design tool based on Microsoft Visio and mapping templates based on Informatica’s implementation methodology, Informatica Velocity
LDAP Integration
- Supports secure authentication of users and groups through an enterprise directory system
- Provides a choice between either Informatica PowerCenter or LDAP for authentication
Enterprise-Grade Security
- Provides granular privileges and flexible permissions management to ensure security, particularly across large, globally distributed teams
- Limits user access to only the minimal functionality and data they need, reducing the risk of potential security breaches
