The increased use of cloud applications and the complexity of effectively sharing and using business data across an organization can lead to a lack of integration between these applications and local ones. This makes an ad hoc integration solution such as Informatica Cloud a necessity for an organization’s integration needs. Informatica Cloud offers an opportunity to modernize data integration practices, embrace cloud technologies, and optimize performance while ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
Let’s quickly review Informatica PowerCenter and how its assets can be migrated to Cloud IPaaS environment and modernized.
Informatica PowerCenter (PC) – A Quick Glance
Informatica PowerCenter also known as INFA PC, is an efficient ETL data integration tool for creating data lakes and data warehouses for major industries.
Data extraction, transformation, and loading operations are performed to deliver industrial-required data so that the data lake or data warehouse can be established and used for various analytics and business decisions.
PowerCenter has been a trusted resource for many organizations and businesses. It is a better choice for organizations that need a reliable and scalable platform for their data ingestion needs to efficiently run their businesses. The metadata-driven platform stores all of its data integration projects in a single central repository, making it easier for organizations to monitor, manage, and maintain their data integration and transactional jobs and seamlessly bring various business data to a central location for business reporting.
Informatica PC – Architecture (Components/Clients)
- Informatica PC consists of 3 components such as PC client tools, PC repository, and PC server
- Informatica PC Client Tools installed at developers end to enable,
- PC Designer for mapping and defining transformations
- PC Workflow Manager for defining sessions and setting runtime properties for mappings
- PC Workflow Monitor for executing sessions
- PC Repository Manager for managing repository and administrations
Informatica PC – Architecture (Repository)
- PC Repository is very critical for Informatica tools, acting like a Hard Disk to serve client tools and servers
- The repository is an inventory where all the data related to mappings, sources, targets, metadata, etc., are stored
- All the data collected from this repository by PC Client tools and Informatica Server can be treated as the backend of Informatica for data processing
Informatica PC – Architecture (Server)
PC Server is where all the executions take place. This server makes physical connections to sources/targets, fetches data, applies the transformations mentioned in the mapping, and loads the data in the target systems.
Informatica Support on PC?
Informatica is a leading enterprise cloud data management and data integration products provider. It offers an opportunity to modernize data integration practices, embrace cloud technologies, and optimize performance while ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. This transition is a strategic move aimed at leveraging the advanced capabilities and flexibility offered by the IDMC platform to enhance your data integration processes and facilitate scalability and agility in line with your evolving business needs.
Cloud IPaaS Modernization with IDMC
- Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is a cloud-based service that provides solutions for data integration, management, governance, security, and analysis. It also empowers data users by opening an independent, neutral, and complete solution for a multi-cloud, multi-hybrid platform
- IDMC provides the most comprehensive cloud-native, AI-powered, E2E data management, empowering organizations to reimagine the way they manage and innovate with their data
- IDMC includes several features that provide solutions to many issues related to governance, infrastructure, monitoring, and scaling for all enterprise workloads with elastic and serverless processing
- IDMC combines Informatica’s 260+ intelligent cloud offerings
Informatica PC (On-prem) to IDMC (IPaaS) Migration
Migrating from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud can help organizations modernize their platform to the cloud, which is faster and increases ROI. By leveraging IDMC, organizations can seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications, data, and processes across their enterprise. It allows clients to establish, build, configure, and maintain data integration, management, and governance with Informatica IDMC and MDM services to build a modernized cloud platform with high scalability and agility.
Informatica Migration Factory Assessment and Technology enables organizations to use the full suite of solutions available through Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). This can be leveraged with expertise to help customers migrate on-premises Informatica PowerCenter repositories, mappings, mapplets, sessions, workflows, etc., to the Informatica Cloud platform (IICS).
Different Approaches for On-PREM to Cloud Platform Migration
- Understand the challenges, issues, and business needs, and work closely to efficiently and effectively perform the conversion and successfully migrate the jobs to be up and running business as usual
- Understand the user environments, their current challenges, and required improvements for assets conversion from On-Prem to Cloud platform
- Analyze the enterprise assets, transformations, mappings, logics, business rules, and schedules and lift them from On-Prem and shift to the cloud platform
- Repoint the assets to sources and targets to behave as is with improvements
IDMC; A Modernized Cloud Platform
IDMC is an industry-first cloud-native platform designed to help businesses efficiently handle the complex challenges of dispersed and fragmented data to truly innovate with their data virtually on any platform, any cloud. It delivers autonomous data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments and sets goals for better business needs. IDMC is backed by Informatica’s CLAIRE engine that learns and adapts from enterprise intelligence derived from metadata to make more valuable recommendations to automate data management tasks and sessions. With hundreds of connectors and 50,000+ metadata-aware scanners, this tool enables a fully scalable ingestion pipeline to deliver full visibility of data lineage across a complete range of sources.
