It is a service oriented Architecture and has the capability to share service and resource across several machines. Informatica ETL product, known as Informatica Power Center consists of 3 main components.
- Informatica Power Center Client Tools: These are the development tools installed at developer end. These tools enable a developer to
- Define transformation process, known as mapping. (Designer)
- Define run-time properties for a mapping, known as sessions (Workflow Manager)
- Monitor execution of sessions (Workflow Monitor)
- Manage repository, useful for administrators (Repository Manager)
- Report Metadata (Metadata Reporter)
- Informatica Power Center Repository: Repository is the backend of Informatica tools. Repository is a data inventory where all the data related to mappings, sources, targets etc. is kept. This is the place where all the metadata for an application is stored. All the client tools and Informatica Server fetch data from Repository.
- Informatica Power Center Server: In the Server, all the executions take place. Server makes physical connections to sources/ targets, fetches data, applies the transformations mentioned in the mapping and loads the data in the target system.