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About the company
Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, discover, integrate, and deliver enterprise data across systems, processes, and people to reduce complexity, ensure consistency, and empower the business. More than 2,300 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs.
Products
Informatica products support a broad range of enterprise-wide data integration initiatives including data warehousing, data migration/consolidation, data synchronization, master data management, and cross-enterprise data integration. Using Informatica products, organizations can empower the business by providing near-universal access to holistic, consistent enterprise data. Informatica products reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity while increasing IT’s productivity and responsiveness to the business. Moreover, by leveraging a services-oriented architecture, Informatica products help organizations maximize future flexibility and minimize long-term risk.
Informatica PowerCenter
Informatica PowerCenter is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise at any speed. PowerCenter addresses complex, real-world problems such as migrating off legacy systems, consolidating application instances, and synchronizing data across multiple operational systems. PowerCenter helps organizations derive business value from all their data so that they can reduce IT costs and complexity, streamline business operations and processes, and drive revenue growth.
Any Data. Any System. Anytime.
Informatica® PowerCenter®, the leading data integration platform, delivers your enterprise comprehensive information, scalable systems, and lifecycle productivity. With PowerCenter, you can realize your successful strategy on an enterprise data integration platform that provides all traditional capabilities for accessing and delivering accurate and complete data. This allows for flexibility, scalability, and availability, not just of data, but of development resources. PowerCenter’s unique Active Metadata captures and allows you to manage all technical, operational, and business metadata—or, data about data—in a single open repository, so you can track and build confidence in your data.
Holistic, Consistent Access to Enterprise Information
In order to compete effectively, your organization needs to count on IT to support the needs of the business, whether the issue is growing revenue, driving operational efficiency, meeting regulatory compliance, or any other strategic initiative. But IT often can’t respond effectively. Hindered by a complex environment of disparate systems that were not designed to share data, IT responds slowly and often ineffectively, potentially compromising your organization’s success. To support the success of the business, IT must provide users holistic and consistent access to enterprise information, respond quickly to the business’ demands for information despite dramatically increasing data volumes, and empower IT developers with the technologies they need for faster time to results. To achieve these goals, organizations must integrate data using a robust enterprise data integration platform.
Global 2000 organizations are using Informatica products and services to integrate, migrate, and consolidate enterprise data across systems, processes, and people. They are reducing complexity through Informatica PowerCenter, an enterprise data integration platform that helps organizations access reliable data from a large variety of systems and deliver that information to other transactional systems, real-time business processes, and business decision makers. PowerCenter also supports Integration Competency Centers (ICC) and other integration experts by serving as the foundation for a broad range of enterprise-wide integration initiatives including data warehousing, data migration, consolidation, “single-view” or master data management, metadata management, and synchronization. By enabling enterprises to create a single, consistent enterprise-wide information resource, PowerCenter helps them reduce IT costs and complexity, harness new technologies, and empower the business
All Your Data—Anytime
Enterprise-level data integration goes well beyond creating departmental data warehouses or marts. Instead, it helps the business act in a more coordinated, strategic way by bringing together all data and ensuring that it is trustworthy and timely.
Access Any System
To deliver a business access to all its data, PowerCenter leverages current and emerging standards including XML and Web services to capture all data from heterogeneous systems, including EAI and ERP systems. Its nearuniversal mainframe data access enables you to unlock the value of the information stored in your legacy applications and databases. And, if you want to leverage data from distributed sources—locally or remotely, in heterogeneous systems, within or beyond your enterprise—go ahead: PowerCenter makes it easy.
Trust Your Data
Data is only valuable if it’s accurate. PowerCenter provides a single environment for you to access, profile, transform, cleanse, reconcile, and deliver all your data. Informatica also offers enterprise metadata management that integrates metadata from disparate systems and offers audit and intelligent lineage capabilities for complete understanding of your IT environment.
Get It Now
Timely access to data enables you to quickly identify issues as they arise and address them immediately, instead of seeing opportunities or problems only after it’s too late. PowerCenter delivers data to the right people, processes, and systems whenever they need it-whether that’s in real-time, ondemand, or through periodic updates.
Scale Up to Success
If you’re going to depend on a single platform to deliver a holistic view of all your enterprise data, that platform is going to be in demand—and it will need to scale seamlessly as data volumes grow. No matter how many users, processes, or data you add to your system, it must consistently provide secure, scalable, on-demand data.
Secure Your Data
PowerCenter ensures security through complete user authentication and granular privacy management through leading encryption and remote site access capabilities. It also provides secure transport of your data across systems and locations.
Scale, Cost-Effectively
PowerCenter delivers linear scalability that optimizes use of available resources— including SMP architectures, 64-bit processors, distributed Linux-based or mainframe systems. Open APIs make it easier to add new data sources for extensibility. Processing options—including pipeline, parallelism, and the ability to scale out to heterogeneous grids—deliver flexibility in meeting increased demands.
Deliver Data on Demand, Even When Demand Grows
In order to ensure timely, on-demand access to data even as volumes grow, PowerCenter provides server grid and partitioning capabilities. Interoperable and extensible, PowerCenter is portable across platforms without re-coding. It makes best use of system resources while supporting batch updates, changed-data capture, and real-time data delivery.
Meet Today’s Challenges – and Tomorrow’s
As your business needs change, your IT infrastructure should adapt to meet your new needs. Your IT teams must be able to respond promptly, designing, collaborating on, and building solutions that address your latest requirements. With PowerCenter’s patented metadata-driven architecture, IT can change and modify solutions easily and quickly without requiring recompilation or excessive reengineering.
Simplify Design
PowerCenter simplifies design processes by making it easy to search and profile data, reuse objects across teams and projects, and leverage metadata.
Facilitate Collaboration
PowerCenter facilitates collaboration across teams, sites, and projects by providing granular version control and automated configuration and flexible deployment tools.
Change Your Solution
PowerCenter’s metadata management helps you adapt your solution quickly by maximizing re-use of code. It also helps you minimize the risk of making changes by providing data lineage and leveraging PowerCenter’s impact analysis to assess the consequences of each change before you implement.
PowerCenter: Comprehensive Data Integration with Rapid Time-to-Value
PowerCenter is the leading data integration platform. Its proven and comprehensive capabilities make it faster and easier than ever for your business to achieve the benefits of data integration, including more holistic access to enterprise information, greater IT responsiveness to the business’ demands for information, and reduced time to results on IT projects.
Informatica PowerExchange
Informatica PowerExchange based on a services-oriented architecture, provides on-demand access to data in all critical enterprise data systems, including mainframe, midrange, and file-based systems. Available as a standalone service or tightly integrated with Informatica PowerCenter, PowerExchange helps organizations leverage mission-critical operational data by making it available to people and processes without requiring manual coding of data extraction programs.
Informatica PowerExchange™ is proven, patented software for on-demand access to complex systems in batch, change, or real time. PowerExchange provides access to all critical enterprise data systems—including mainframe, mid-range relational databases, and file-based systems—as a standalone service or tightly integrated with the leading data integration platform, Informatica PowerCenter®. By providing cost-effective, secure, reliable, and scalable access to data in a range of complex source systems, PowerExchange enables organizations to realize the value of data across the enterprise.
The “On Demand” Challenge
Organizations today demand an unprecedented degree of access to accurate and timely information for quick decision making and high-speed operations. At the same time, the volume of data is exploding, and encompasses an ever-widening range of information systems and data formats. This demand, coupled with increasing system complexities, is stretching the capacity of IT resources and infrastructures to keep pace.
To leverage the full value of their information, organizations must be able to easily access and deliver data in “right time,” and integrate that data from a wide variety of transactional applications and systems. Depending on individual requirements, a business can then adopt the integration strategy, or set of strategies, that best supports its objectives. An integration strategy may include:
- Populating data warehouses, operational data stores, or applications
- Establishing a data hub to serve as a single source of truth
- Migrating data from obsolete systems
- Consolidating multiple systems to reduce costs
- Synchronizing data across the enterprise
- Monitoring business activity across the organization
Access Data on Demand. Respond at the Right Speed for Your Business Environment.
Having the right information to respond to change in “right time”—from operational changes to customer demands—requires ondemand access to a variety of disparate data sources. The meaning of “on demand,” however, varies from one application to another. For example, batch updates are appropriate for some types of information, such as employee timesheets. For other types of information, such as inventory data, only real-time data will do. With Informatica PowerExchange, a single architecture allows you to deliver that data at any speed. If business needs change so that batch-update data is now needed in near-real time or real time, IT staff can use PowerExchange to reduce latency without having to re-code or re-architect the solution.
Open Your Architecture. Reduce Project Risk.
Based on an extensible, service-oriented architecture, PowerExchange supports a variety of platforms. As a business decides to make more of its data sources available to other applications across the enterprise, it can add platforms easily. SQL access to native database APIs delivers high performance: PowerExchange extracts, converts, filters, and makes data available to target systems without intermediary staging and program coding.
Move Only the Data You Need. Get Faster Access to the Data That Drives Results.
The demand for more data and lower latency can take a heavy toll on system resources. It can significantly impact operational efficiencies. Full database extracts involve huge data transfers across heavily loaded networks and require significant processing power. With today’s data volumes, this results in tremendous—and ultimately unacceptable – performance inefficiencies across the enterprise.
Traditional approaches for capturing changed data require modification at the application or schema layers. PowerExchange’s patented architecture for delivering changed data capture utilizes source-specific Capture Agents, leveraging published APIs, log files, journal files, and other non-invasive resources to capture changed data. By combining visual, SQL-based access with a non-invasive architecture, PowerExchange enables organizations to easily access only changed data, while reducing demands on system and staff resources.
And as data volumes grow and delivery windows shrink, Informatica PowerExchange allows a seamless transition from batch and bulk, to batch and changed data capture, to real-time changed data capture delivery. Through a single architecture, data access requirements can quickly adapt without the need for intensive hand coding.
PowerExchange’s Changed Data Capture (CDC) architecture provides native capabilities to detect data updates and to deliver them in real time or batch through the same common API used for bulk updates. This significantly reduces the amount of data to be moved and the need to rebuild tables, which in turn reduces the processing demands on networks and hardware. Multitasking agents can run in parallel, delivering changed data to multiple projects concurrently to ensure real-time synchronization of data across the enterprise.
Make Changes to Your Systems Environment. Respond to Changes in Your Business.
To stay successful, businesses need to be able to respond rapidly to changes in their environment by changing their processes or adding to their capabilities—fast. Informatica PowerExchange enables rapid changes to information structures and systems through powerful GUIs that eliminate the need for complex coding or in-depth systems knowledge. By using visual, metadata-centric tools, changes can be implemented quickly and seamlessly with minimal impact to existing solutions.
Intelligent Access to Complex Systems. Increase Time to Value by Reducing the Project Cycle Time.
As a standalone product, PowerExchange offers immediate access to data and metadata and makes it available to Informatica PowerCenter, and other ETL, business intelligence, and EAI platforms and tools. PowerExchange features a serviceoriented architecture (SOA) that can be leveraged by any standalone SQL-based tool for the access and delivery of complex enterprise data.
By standardizing data access processes using visual tools and SQL, PowerExchange’s SOA ensures best practices and reduces maintenance of solutions. With PowerExchange, the need for specialized knowledge of underlying source systems is eliminated, significantly accelerating project cycles.
In addition, PowerExchange’s architecture provides the ability to capture changes once in a persistent format and route those changes to multiple applications, reducing the workload on the source system and extending the leverage of the inherent data.
Ensure Data Integrity. Reduce Your Business Risk.
With the constant threat of network infringements and outages, organizations struggle to maintain the integrity and security of data while accessing and extracting from source systems. Informatica PowerExchange provides leading encryption technology to ensure data integrity.
PowerExchange also lowers the risk of project failure resulting from network outages with an advance start/stop recovery feature. PowerExchange can identify where a job was interrupted during the detection and extraction process and immediately resume the session. Because PowerExchange assures delivery through robust recovery options and secures data through industry-standard encryption, it frees developers to work on higher-value efforts.
With PowerExchange, reusable metadata provides important extraction logic that persists throughout the lifecycle of a job. The ability to define data once and use it across multiple jobs provides consistent results throughout data extraction, ensuring unmatched accuracy and productivity.
Simplify Integration with PowerExchange. Leverage Your Existing IT Investments.
Unlocking the value of legacy systems once meant costly new system development and data migration, or complex hand coding to access critical data. Using Informatica PowerExchange, organizations can significantly reduce the time and resources required to leverage existing investments. PowerExchange masks the complexity of source systems from developers and offers an intuitive GUI with SQL-like access, eliminating the need for lengthy training and implementation.
PowerExchange streamlines access to legacy systems and offers data to a range of business applications. PowerExchange can access whole or changed data extracts, in real time or batch transfer. It makes it simple to change latency if, for example, a certain type of batch-oriented data now must be made available in real time.
Because businesses operate in a constantly changing environment, PowerExchange is designed to accommodate rapid system changes, too. With PowerExchange, organizations can get their data delivered whenever and wherever they need it—24/7 and enterprisewide.
Ecosystem
Informatica customers and partners are supported by a comprehensive ecosystem created to ensure their ongoing success and maximum return on investment.
Services
Informatica backs its industry-leading solutions with a comprehensive and customizable set of professional, education, and customer support services to meet the broad spectrum of customer needs. Highly skilled professionals are equipped to provide the resources needed to ensure successful project implementations. In addition, Informatica offers a Professional Certification program.
Alliances
Informatica has forged strong partnerships with many of the world’s foremost technology and services providers?ncluding best-of-breed vendors, industry-standard hardware providers, third-party development firms, and over 150 global/regional and off-shore system integrators?o ensure that customers can seamlessly deploy and operate best-of-breed data integration solutions.