Informatica power center

Informatica power center 
constitutes of three main components:

Client tools: installed on developer machines.
Power Centre repository: place to store metadata for an application
Power center server: server to perform data executions
With growing customer base, Informatica is continuously trying to leverage its data integration solutions. This tool has in built powerful mapping templates to help manage data in an efficient manner.



There are mainly 4 steps in the Informatica ETL process,

1. Extract or Capture
2. Scrub or Clean
3. Transform
4. Load and Index

Features of Informatica ETL: 

For all the Data integration and ETL operations, Informatica has provided us with Informatica PowerCenter. Let us now see some key features of Informatica ETL:

• Provides facility to specify a large number of transformation rules with a GUI.
• Generate programs to transform data.
• Handle multiple data sources.
• Supports data extraction, cleansing, aggregation, reorganisation, transformation, and load operations.
• Automatically generates programs for data extraction.
• High-speed loading of target data warehouses.