presented by :

Salil K. Udainiya
Abhishek Sharma
Bhargava K. Mallina
Deep N. Gautam
AGENDA
 Why INFORMATICA?

 What is INFORMATICA?

 Building Blocks of INFORMATICA

 Implementation

 Things to Consider before going for INFORMATICA

 Conclusion

 References

 Question & Answers

WHY INFORMATICA
Data growth remains IT's biggest challenge :
 In organizations Data is fragmented throughout the enterprise(Financials,
Human Resources, Customer or Sales Management systems,etc)

 Data also resides in documents like spreadsheets, PDF’s, or Word,

outsourcers, trading partners, or in the cloud

 Considerable problem for many organizations is how effectively an

organization can find, use and trust data

 When the data is connected, its difficult to manage and easy to break.
What is Data Warehousing
What is the need of an ETL tool
That’s how INFORMATICA helps
WHAT IS INFORMATICA
BUILDING BLOCKS
PowerCenter Components:
Client Applications of Informatica PowerCenter:

 1. Repository Manager

 2. Designer

 3. Workflow Manager

 4. Workflow Monitor
1. Repository Manager:
2. PowerCenter Designer:
 Source Analyzer

 Target Designer

 Transformation

Developer

 Mapplet Designer

 Mapping Designer
2.1 Source Analyzer:
2.2 Target Designer:
2.3 Mapplets:
2.4 Mappings:
3. Workflow Manager:
4. Workflow Monitor:
IMPLEMENTATION
Pre-requisites
 A Machine with Predefined Hardware Configuration:

 Installed INFORMATICA Power-Center Client

 Configured INFORMATICA Power-Center Repository & Server

 Good understanding of SQL

Points to cover:
Data transformation from:

 Flat-File to Flat-File

 Flat-File to Table

 Table to Table

 Table to Flat-File
FLAT TO FLAT :
FLAT TO TABLE :
TABLE TO TABLE :
TABLE TO FLAT :
Steps Involved.
 Create Source definition(s)

 Create Target definition(s)

 Create a Mapping

 Create a Session task

 Create a Workflow with Task components

 Run the Workflow

 Verify the Results

THINGS TO CONSIDER
Pros:
 Ease of re-usability , debugging, connectivity which makes INFORMATICA
as an ideal ETL tool

 High GO Live success rate

 INFORMATICA comes with internal scheduler

 Capability of enabling Lean Integration

 No problems in non-Windows environments too unlike Microsoft SSIS

which takes over all Microsoft Windows limitations
Cons:
 Relatively higher cost than SSIS

 Trust but verify, a lot to remember

 User interface not much user friendly

INFORMARTICA Tool's released versions :
 Version 5.1 was released on July 2001

 Version 6.0 was released September 2002

 Version 6.1 was released December 2002

 Version 6.2 was released April 2003

 PowerCenter 7.1(only) in November 2003

 Version 8.6 was released 2006

 Version 9.x was released 2012

CONCLUSION
References:
 Installation/Machine GuideLines :
https://community.informatica.com/mpresources/docs/Installation_PC_E
xpress.pdf

 Complete Reference to Informatica :

http://informaticatutorials-naveen.blogspot.in/2011/04/what-is-
informatica_20.html#axzz2ldn3Z0zS
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QUESTIONS
THANK YOU!