Brochure Informatica PowerCenter Benefits Support better business decisions with the right information at the right time Acceerate projects in days vs. months with improved staff productivity and coaboration Seamessy integrate data from disparate systems for a cohesive data foundation Scae cost-effectivey as your needs grow and require data visibiity Empower business and IT to work faster and better together Ensure on-going success for mission-critica business processes Reduce costs by reusing skis and resources across projects Drive Business Vaue with End-to-End Data Integration Agiity Data is at the heart of your business. Today more than ever, effective decision-making reies on timey, quaity data. Yet IT budgets are decreasing. IT is overextended, and the business isn t aways sure what it needs from a data integration project or how to effectivey reay requirements. Course-corrections and iterations come so infrequenty that a project can end up far off course before anyone notices a mistake or wrong turn. As data voumes expode and compexity mounts, you need an agie data integration patform that can support your evoving needs. You need the operationa confidence to deiver the right data at the right time, every time. Informatica PowerCenter supports a first-of-its-kind end-to-end agie deveopment process. IT and business stakehoders coaborate from the outset, iterating and course-correcting as needed. A data warehouse that previousy woud have taken four to six months to buid can be finished in just weeks. As environments grow and mature, PowerCenter scaes to meet your expanding data voumes and compexity, whie providing data insights to IT and the business. PowerCenter aows you to automaticay test and vaidate your data throughout your deveopment ifecyce and provides an eary-warning system to proactivey monitor operationa issues and deveopment practices. With unparaeed ease-of-use, connectivity and scaabiity, PowerCenter provides an end-toend enterprise patform that rapidy integrates massive data voumes from a discrete data systems to deiver high-quaity data in a timey manner. PowerCenter deivers agiity that enabes data-driven decision-making for competitive advantage. Raising the Standard for Enterprise Data Integration Whether you re panning a data warehousing project, an enterprise-wide data governance initiative, an appication migration or consoidation, or evoution to a hybrid architecture, Informatica PowerCenter supports your pans and keeps your business agie. The software converts raw data into information to drive anaysis, daiy operations, and data governance initiatives, deivering resuts at speeds up to five times faster than hand-coding and traditiona graphica toos. The same PowerCenter skis, resources and efforts can be everaged to support a of these initiatives, driving IT efficiencies and improved productivity. Compete Projects On Time and Under Budget Avoid deays in end-to-end data integration processes that postpone projects, raise costs, and increase risk so you can safey sash time-tovaue from months to days. PowerCenter jumpstarts and acceerates projects with roe-based toos and improved staff productivity. PowerCenter aows sharing of common metadata, improve business- IT coaboration, and ets anaysts and deveopers rapidy prototype, iterate, anayze, vaidate, test, depoy, and monitor data integrations.
Scae Easiy as Your Environment Grows PowerCenter supports any voume and compexity of data and any number and type of projects and users, whie providing the foundation for data governance. The patform scaes to meet your growing needs with advanced scaing capabiities. Greater visibiity into data ineage buids business confidence in the data and improves productivity through impact anaysis. A common business vocabuary heps keep business and IT in sync. Meanwhie, a famiiar graphica user interface ets IT teams everage existing PowerCenter skis. Take Advantage of Rea-Time Data Updates for Appications or Anaytics PowerCenter Rea Time enabes rea time or right time deivery of quaity data to and from data warehouses or other big data stores, at the speed of your business providing timey and trustworthy resuts. By processing and deivering data at the right time, the software heps you improve business performance whether you re integrating data inside or outside your enterprise. Nothing in its cass is faster and its security features are industria strength. Protect Critica Business Processes from Bad Data Data integration faiures can be stopped before they happen by combining automated, auditabe, and repeatabe data vaidation testing with monitoring and proactive aerts to warn stakehoders when issues arise in your deveopment and operationa processes. PowerCenter heps automate data vaidation, monitor operations, and enforce best practices. You can spot and mitigate sma probems before they expode into big ones that affect your organization s abiity to function, a whie reducing time and cost for testing and monitoring. Anaysts and Deveopers can easiy and quicky coaborate using roe-based toos to jumpstart or acceerate data integration projects.
Top Choice for Enterprise Data Integration According to the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration toos, Informatica is positioned as a Leader for the 10th year in a row. 1 Informatica is positioned furthest and highest on the Competeness of Vision and Abiity to Execute axes, respectivey. PowerCenter, Informatica s enterprise data integration soution, is offered in severa editions to meet organizations unique data integration needs. Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition is scaabe, high-performing, and easy-to-use enterprise data integration software that greaty improves staff productivity and promotes IT and business coaboration. It accesses and integrates data from virtuay any business system, in any format, and deivers that data throughout the enterprise without hand coding. PowerCenter Standard Edition incudes basic XML processing, connectors to foundationa data sources, partitioning, administration capabiities, basic data profiing, rapid prototyping, and batch data integration. Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition is for IT organizations that are facing increasing size, scope, and compexity of their data integration environment and need to manage growing data voume, veocity, and types; as we as more data sources, users, and projects a whie providing data insights to IT and the business. PowerCenter Advanced Edition provides additiona enhancements to performance and scaabiity and incudes workfow on grid, session on grid, high avaiabiity, and pushdown optimization. It adds a metadata manager that offers data ineage for impact anaysis and improved business trust in data. It aso incudes a business gossary that ets users across IT and business communicate with consistent terminoogy. Advanced Edition aso incudes a Rea Time data integration engine for rea time and right-time data updates for appications or anaytics. Informatica PowerCenter Premium Edition Informatica PowerCenter Premium Edition protects critica business processes against data integration faiures. It combines automated, auditabe, and repeatabe data vaidation testing with monitoring and proactive aerts so stakehoders can address issues in their deveopment and operationa processes eary on. These capabiities reduce cost and time associated with testing and monitoring and improve service-eve agreements (SLAs) and business trust in the data. In addition to a the features of the Standard and Advanced Editions, PowerCenter Premium Edition features automated data vaidation, incuding unit and system testing, as we as checking the vaidity of operationa data. It aso proactivey monitors operationa uptime and deveopmenta best practices and provides aerts if systems fai to deiver. Premium Edition aso supports enterprise-eve advanced transformations for integration of speciaized or non-reationa data, such as compex XML, JSON, Internet of Things machine data, industry formats and unstructured documents. 1 Gartner, Inc., 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Toos, Eric Thoo, Lakshmi Randa, 29 Juy 2015. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research pubications, and does not advise technoogy users to seect ony those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research pubications consist of the opinions of Gartner s research organization and shoud not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner discaims a warranties, expressed or impied, with respect to this research, incuding any warranties of merchantabiity or fitness for a particuar purpose.
PowerCenter Data Integration Testing Add-on Package Enhance PowerCenter with automated data integration testing, incuding test data management, static masking, and data vaidation testing, to deiver better quaity data more rapidy and securey. PowerCenter Rea Time Add-on Package Enhance PowerCenter with increased business agiity and performance through rea-time connectivity, web services, and Change Data Capture (CDC) support. PowerCenter Data Integration Hub Add-on Package Enhance PowerCenter with greater agiity and centraized management, everaging PowerCenter processing and connectivity, using a modern pubish/subscribe hub-based data integration approach. PowerCenter Advanced Transformation Add-on Package Enhance PowerCenter Standard Edition or Advanced Edition through comprehensive, enterprise data transformation for compex XML, industry formats (SWIFT, HL7, EDI X12), unstructured documents, PDFs, and Microsoft Office documents to unock the vaue of non-reationa data. Compare these PowerCenter Enterprise editions to seect the one that s right for you. Standard Advanced Premium Monitoring and Aerting Operationa uptime Enforce Deveopment Best Practices Data Vaidation Unit and System Testing Check Vaidity of Operationa Data Advanced Data Transformation Metadata Manager and Data Lineage Business Gossary Additiona Performance and Scaabiity Workfow on Grid Session on Grid High Avaiabiity Push Down Optimization Team-based Deveopment and Versioning Rea Time Engine Basic XML Processing Partitioning Connectors to Data Sources: Reationa, Batch, ODBC Administration Basic Profiing Rapid Prototyping with Business/ IT Coaboration Anayst and Deveoper Toos Batch Data Integration
Key Features Roe-based toos support iterative business/it coaboration and deveopment as we as support business and department sef-service One-cick prototype-to-production capabiity jumpstarts and acceerates data integration projects in the department, the enterprise, or even the Integration Competency Center (ICC) Metadata-driven data integration with high-performance ETL engine, ibrary of prebuit data transformations, and near universa connectivity Rapid prototyping and data profiing instanty accesses and combines data from mutipe sources to ensure requirements are met eary and throughout the deveopment process. Graphica, intuitive metadata-driven views of data fows, impact anaysis and ineage provide better change management and governance Business-friendy user experience for authoring and managing business terms, with context-based business gossary of common business terms for enhanced business/it coaboration Support for grid computing environments with distributed processing, high avaiabiity, adaptive oad baancing, dynamic partitioning Speciaized, high-performance pushdown of data transformation processing for optima use of database resources Rea-time data updates for appications or anaytics that heps improve business performance whether you re integrating data inside or outside your enterprise. Rue-based eary-warning system that monitors and aerts stakehoders about operationa and deveopment risks in their PowerCenter environments Script-free automated, auditabe, and repeatabe data vaidation for rapid and compete ETL testing in production, deveopment and test environments Advanced Data Transformation heps you unock the vaue of non-reationa data through comprehensive parsing of compex XML, JSON, PDF, Microsoft Office and Internet of Things machine data Support for hybrid IT with fexibe depoyment of reusabe data integration ogic in the department, the enterprise, or in the coud About Informatica Informatica is a eading independent software provider focused on deivering transformative innovation for the future of a things data. Organizations around the word rey on Informatica to reaize their information potentia and drive top business imperatives. More than 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fuy everage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Coud and on the internet, incuding socia networks. Wordwide Headquarters, 2100 Seaport Bvd, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA Phone: 650.385.5000 Fax: 650.385.5500 To-free in the US: 1.800.653.3871 informatica.com inkedin.com/company/informatica twitter.com/informatica 2015 Informatica LLC. A rights reserved. Informatica and Put potentia to work are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the word. A other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks. IN03_1015_06659