Introduction:
Informatica is the organization / company which offers the leading enterprise of the market for data integration and the management of Cloud Data Management products. Most importantly it can be utilized for analyzing and retrieving the information / data from multiple information / data sources in order to build the enterprise information / data applications of the warehouse.
Informatica is also called the Informatica PowerCenter. This is one of the tools that can be mainly focused on data masking, ETL, data quality, data replication, data virtualization, and many more. It provides the services for multiple businesses, industries, and private / government organizations that includes telecommunication, healthcare, financial and insurance services.
The editions of Informatica can be available in the market are:
- Advanced edition
- Standard edition
- Premium edition
Communicating to Business :
Informatica Admin can act as the brand ambassador in between the business and the multiple different projects teams that can involve Network, Application Support Team, Storage, Database Teams, and Unix teams.
Maintaining the standards :
Make sure that the code can be synced in all the situations and environments.
Infrastructure Support :
Responsible for QA, managing Development and Production environments.
Outages Handling:
- Patch installation (Hot Fixes /Software’s )
- Password Changes
- Network Changes
- Restarting the Services or Bouncing Activities
Monitoring:
We can be discriminated against in all the load monitoring and environment monitoring concepts instead of having the consolidation. These are the major activities in the administration of Informatica.
Load Monitoring:
- Re-start or Recovery in loads in all the case of any failures.
- Monitoring the workflows whether the loads can be scheduled to the respective timings.
- Identifying the tardiness in the process of loading in case of having any sessions are in the hung status.
Environment Monitoring:
- Keeping constantly an eye on the infrastructure can be readily available, I meant to say keep monitoring the environment of the readiness.
- System level parameter checks Memory utilization, CPU spike, various parallel loads (sessions) that are running on each and every node.
Here the second option can be the most intensive checks and intricate one are required a lot.
We have done the automation for monitoring activities in the manual re-checks are more essential.
- Load Monitoring .
- Alerts Monitoring.
- Servers Monitoring.
The editions of Informatica can be available in the market are:
- Advanced edition
- Standard edition
- Premium edition
What is meant by ETL?
ETL can be defined as the process of moving information / data from the source to the information / data storage system.
- Transform: In this one phase, the information / data can be processed in the needed format for the customer / user. It can also include data merging, data formatting, and data cleansing.
- Extract: It is defined as the first ETL phase, in which the information / data can be gathered / collected from more information / data sources that are held in the temporary storage.
- Load: In this one phase, the transformed information / data can be moved to the database permanent target.
Features of Informatica:
Given below are the major features of Informatica:
- Universal connectivity
- B2B exchange of data and complete end to end visibility.
- Automated information / data validation testing
- Data warehousing
- Advanced data transformation
- Integration Competency Centers (ICC)
- Data migration
- Data governance
- Data synchronization and replication
- Accurate data for analytics and applications
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Rapid profiling and prototyping
- Seamlessly connected to the applications of Cloud
Why has Informatica become the best solution?
Informatica is the most widely used data integration tool today. The reasons behind why Informatica is the best solution in the organizations / companies / enterprises are:
Informatica can be interacted with all the primary information / data sources (Mainframe, RDBMS, Flat files, XML, SAP, VSM, etc.) and transform the information / data in between them.
- It can effectively join the information / data from multiple data sources.
- It can be moved with huge volumes of the information / data.
- It can also Improve the business agility by offering on-time accurate and secure information / data.
- Applications and Analytics can be fed up with the real-time information / data.
Informatica Real-time applications:
Application Integration: Informatica PowerCenter can offer the integration of B2B data, web services, and many more as well.
Data Migration: PowerCenter can support the data / information migration of the information / data from the existing old system to the newer one.
Middleware: Informatica can also support the middleware in between two applications such as SAP R3, SAP BW, and many more as well
Data Warehousing: Data Warehouse can gather / collect the information / data from many of the information / data sources for the analysis and this can be performed easily by using Informatica.
In order to gain in-depth knowledge of Informatica in the real-time, we must and should have a clear understanding of architecture of the Informatica and also its components.
Informatica Architecture
Informatica has good service-oriented architecture. This service-oriented architecture is nothing but having two or more services which are used to communicate with each other for the information / data transfer. Informatica PowerCenter can follow the methodologies of component-based development in order to build the information / data flow from the sources in order to target them by using multiple components called the transformations.
Domain of Informatica PowerCenter
Informatica Domain is known as the primary administration that can be a unit of PowerCenter. It contains a set of services and nodes. Moreover, they can also be subdivided into subfolders and folders based on design administration and architecture requirements.
Below are the two types of services in the domain of Informatica:
Application services – It is very much responsible for repository services, integration services, and reporting services. These are the services that can operate on multiple nodes that are based on their configuration.
Service manager – The service manager is very much responsible for operations of the domain such as authorizing, authenticating, and logging. It can also manage the application services which can be run on various nodes and can simultaneously manage the customers / users and groups as well.
Below are the major properties of the domain:
Restart Period – The maximum time in which the domain uses in order to restart the service is known as the restart period.
Resilience timeout – If any of the integration / repository/ services does not go well, then the time taken by the service of the application in order to connect into those services is known as resilience timeout.
Database Port and Name – It can represent the database occasion and the database port in the name for the domain.
Dispatch Mode – The policy can be applied by the load balancer in order to dispatch the works / tasks for the multiple nodes is known as dispatch mode.
Database Type – This kind of database can be made on which the domain is made into.
Database Host – It can be represented by the machine Hostname on which the informatica domain is configured.
Conclusion:
Hope this answer helps you in knowing the roles and responsibilities of Informatica. For more details, contact Gologica or comment in the below section.