Productivity tools for PowerCenter and Informatica Cloud Presented by Viral Raichura & Nick Piette May 24 th 2016
Viral Raichura Principal Product Manager, Informatica Cloud R&D @vraichura Nick Piette Product Manager, Informatica Cloud Platform and R&D @Nick_Piette
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Project Stages and Typical Challenges Design / Build Test Deploy Manage / Operate Developer Developer Administrator Developer Administrator Lack of automation Manual review Code comparison Manual monitoring Repetitive tasks Incomplete visibility Code migration Outage prevention Following different standards Extensive time Post migration activities
Developing Mappings Design / Build Most time consuming activity about 50% to 70% Understand logical and physical data models Dependencies and business rules Stringent client standards Diversity in the projects Developer Repeating activities over and over again ex. adding ports, formulas, etc.
Accelerated Mapping Generation Repetitive work made easier save about 50% to 80% of your time Power of Excel extended to PowerCenter create / edit hundreds of ports easily write and copy PowerCenter formulas in seconds
MapGen+ MapGen Visio Templates DBMetadata Mapping XMLs templates from Marketplace Data Warehousing Data Migration Change Data Capture Data Cleansing Generate scores of mappings in seconds
Expression Builder
Other Tools to Accelerate Development Autotype Excel Macro Flat File Source Definition Generator MapGen Plus Expression Builder DBMetadata Stage Mapping Generator
QA & Code Review Test Verifying code against the standards Automating error prone manual methods Testing more than the just the data load (completeness, transformations, regression) Developer Lack of reporting framework Often requires multiple passes Manual Monitoring Outage Prevention
XML Analyzer Tool Following velocity standards made easy Source to target dependencies Validation through the browser
XML Reporter for Informatica A coding validation framework with all the necessary checks Java code shared for personalization
Other Code Validation Tools on Marketplace Sameeksha Automated Testing Framework ICC Utility PowerCenter Analyzer (Open Source) XML Reporter for Informatica
Deployment & Code Migration Deploy Conventionally a manual approach Problems are normally found during run time History often not available Tedious tasks of creating files with complex structures Manual Monitoring Outage Prevention Administrator
InfaCompare Avoid surprises during the code deployment process Know about the possible conflicts Before the deployment and take an Informed decision
Deployment Group Automation Source Repository The Deployment Automation that takes care of code migration while avoiding any conflict Deployment Automation Script Deployment Options & Input Files Impacted Objects, Log files & Email Administrator Checks the integrity of the migrated objects post deployment Target Repository
InfaDeploy Detailed report of your deployment activity Circulate this information with ease
iexportnormalizer
iexportnormalizer
Other Code Migration Tools on Marketplace Deployment Group Automation Deployment Control File Builder InfaDeploy Groovy Script for easy code comparison InfaCompare iexportnormalizer
Maintaining the Environment Manage / Operate Manual monitoring still in practice Reactive instead of proactive Wheel is often reinvented Lack of standardized approach Developer Administrator
Maintenance Scripts Export / Import Objects 50+ Scripts Conversion Scripts (Excel & CSV) User & Permission Management Explore all scripts on Marketplace Developers / Admins Windows / Unix Scheduling & Monitoring Perl / Python / VB
Repository Reports Users Audit SQL based Code Validation Find what is pulling down your environment Learn what is performing and what is not Learn how to make your environment nimble
Informatica Cloud Productivity Tools Scheduling and Execution Tools ActiveBatch Extension for Cloud Cloud Job Execution Tool Mapping & Template Development Siebel to SAP Bundles Salesforce Mapping Templates Data Quality / Cleansing Templates
On Marketplace Reusable Mapplets Mapping Samples User Defined Functions Workflow samples Performance Tuning Samples Solution Bundles (PowerCenter / Cloud) http://marketplace.informatica.com
Can You Guess the Number of Marketplace Apps? 1,500+ Apps 45 PowerCenter Workflow Samples 75 PowerCenter Tools/Utilities 75 PowerCenter Scripts 300 PowerCenter Mapping Samples
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