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PowerCenter Neueste Version

PowerCenter Neueste Version

9 + 1 Reasons to Upgrade to Informatica PowerCenter 9.1

  1. Enable true business-IT collaboration
    Empower analysts to directly find data using Business Glossary and define mappings they need from higher-level specifications with the Data Integration Analyst Tool. Analysts can now perform data integration tasks on their own and collaborate with developers for up to 2x combined productivity.
  2. Simplify Web services development
    Build Web services from WSDL or existing data objects, transformations, and mapplets; handle complex  datatypes; and reuse services much more easily than ever before with the new Data Services Web Services Option.
  3. Boost productivity with metadata management
    Make changes faster and simpler with with the optimized data lineage and imact analysis of Metadata Manager and Business Glossary.
  4. Test upgrades up to 10x faster and 10x more with DVO
    Reduce upgrade times up to 10x by automating data testing and validation, and reduce the risk of production issues by increasing data coverage 10x or more with the Informatica PowerCenter Data Validation Option (DVO).
  5. Minimize risk through data governance
    Implement data governance with Business Glossary, Metadata Manager, and integrated data quality support, now with approval workflow and change notifications for business terms for Business Glossary.
  6. Improve mainframe access and performance
    Maximize your mainframe investments with access and performance enhancements, including real-time change data capture, VSAM partitioning, and high availability.
  7. Strengthen your real-time operations
    Take advantage of improvements to PowerCenter Real Time Edition, including real-time change data capture enhancements, even greater Web services scalability, and guaranteed once-only message delivery.
  8. Reduce deployment and maintenance costs
    Simplify deployment, decrease management overhead, and make troubleshooting much faster with a new administration console that combines several existing consoles into one.
  9. Make your security bulletproof
    Secure your data integration environment with centralized user and role administration, enhanced LDAP integration, SSL remote access, and support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
  10. Support mission-critical 24x7 operations
    Access, integrate, and deliver your critical data whenever you need it with enhanced capabilities, including high availability for PowerExchange and dynamic lookup cache for real-time data.

New Features of PowerCenter 9.1

PowerCenter 9.1 delivers the full range of data integration capabilities to ensure that all data can be accessed, integrated, and delivered throughout the enterprise at any speed.

PowerCenter All Editions (Standard, Advanced, Real Time)

  • New Informatica Data Integration Analyst, a Web-based UI designed for analysts. It enables analysts to perform data integration tasks on their own and generate mappings for deployment that can be shared with developers.
  • New upgrade wizard and installer
  • New unified administration console
  • Improvements to Mapping Architects for Visio, including support for PowerExchange data sources, transformation shortcuts, and custom transformation editing
  • Enhanced support for lookup transformations, including cache updates, database deadlock resilience, SQL overrides for uncached lookups, and multiple rows return
  • Guaranteed one-time semantics extended to SQL transforms, allowing recovery of interrupted message without requiring message to be sent again
  • Centralized user and role administration, enhanced LDAP integration, SSL remote access, and support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

PowerCenter Advanced Edition: Metadata Manager and Business Glossary

  • Built-in support of Business Glossary within Data Integration Analyst, including search, browsing, and authoring, for improved productivity and data governance by reuse of recommended data sources
  • Enhanced graphical end-to-end lineage in Metadata Manager and Business Glossary from more sources to more targets across transformations
  • Improved impact analysis, with ability to view list of impacted objects and limit analysis to a single domain
  • Approval workflow for business terms—from creation and review to publication Business terms change notifications to stakeholders via emails, asking users to review draft  or make comments
  • Ability to import/export Business Glossary
  • Metadata audit trails for all user-definable metadata, with ability to view history of changes to business glossary categories, business terms, and custom objects
  • Improvements to metadata bookmarks, including access to Metadata Manager and Business Glossary objects and features from external applications
  • Enhancements to metadata loading and linking processes, including incremental loading on select sources and targets, automatic connection assignments, support for multiple PowerCenter parameter files, automated cross-resource linking, and resource connection testing
  • Support for Microsoft SSRS/SSAS metadata

PowerCenter Real Time Edition

  • New Data Services Web Services Option—faster Web services creation from WSDL or existing data objects, transformations, mapplets, and hierarchical datatypes and easier service reuse
  • Improved XML exception management—validate and route invalid XML to a separate output group
  • Dynamic lookup cache refresh—update the lookup cache based on the results of an expression
  • Session log file rotation—limit the size of session logs for real-time sessions by time or file size

Compare and Upgrade: PowerCenter 8.5 vs. 8.6 vs. 9.1

If you’re using any edition of PowerCenter version 8.x, you’re really missing out. PowerCenter 9.1 is packed with ground-breaking new and enhanced features and capabilities that will utterly transform your IT organization.

PowerCenter Standard Edition
Version Features
PowerCenter 9. 1 New Informatica Data Integration Analyst, a Web-based UI designed for analysts. It enables analysts to perform data integration tasks on their own and generate mappings for deployment that can be shared with developers.
New upgrade wizard and installer
Unified administration console with centralized user and role administration, enhanced LDAP integration, SSL remote access, and support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Improvements to Mapping Architects for Visio, including support for PowerExchange data sources, transformation shortcuts, and custom transformation editing
Enhanced support for lookup transformations, including cache updates, database deadlock resilience, SQL overrides for uncached lookups, and multiple rows return
Guaranteed exactly once semantics to SQL Transforms, allowing improved PowerCenter recovery from interruptions
PowerCenter 8.6 Enhanced Microsoft Visio–based data flow design tool with reusable transformations, multiple pipeline generation, shortcuts, and new mapping objects
New source-target specification and mapping generation with Microsoft Excel
Streamlined process to define valid values and other reference data
Centralized monitoring of jobs and services for each data integration service
PowerCenter 8.5 New granular privileges management for fine-grained control over application functionality
Enhanced role-based security
Improved LDAP integration
Single node service for multiple concurrent clients
New concurrent execution of PowerCenter workflows
New Web services development wizard
Enhanced predefined wizards and templates for mapping generation
New configuration assistant to guide definition of PowerCenter Services

 

PowerCenter Advanced Edition
Version Features
PowerCenter 9.1 All PowerCenter Standard Edition enhancements, plus Metadata Manager for graphical impact analysis and data lineage and Business Glossary for managing business terms
Enhanced end-to-end graphical impact analysis, including transformations
Improved impact analysis of specific objects, with ability to view list of impacted objects
Metadata audit trails for all user-definable metadata, with ability to view history of changes to business glossary categories, business terms, and custom objects
Enhancements to metadata loading and linking processes, including automatic connection assignments, support for multiple PowerCenter parameter files, automated cross-resource linking, and resource connection testing
Metadata connector support for JDBC and Microsoft SSRS/SSAS metadata
Built-in support for Business Glossary in Data Integration Analyst including search
Approval workflow for business terms from creation to publication
Business terms change notifications to stakeholders via emails
Ability to import/export business glossaries
Improvements to metadata bookmarks, including access to Metadata Manager and Business Glossary objects and features from external applications
PowerCenter 8.6 Creation of business terms organized in categories in a business glossary
Ability to add business names to technical artifacts
Ability to export data lineage to Microsoft Excel
Ability to export and import custom attributes
Objects relationship wizard to create relationships by matching metadata objects by any property
Support for IBM DB2 z/OS and Netezza, Erwin logical models, and OBIEE metadata
Dynamic partitioning
PowerCenter 8.5 Major usability improvements with interactive data lineage, search, filtering, and personalization capabilities
Profiling for metadata sources that include relational metadata
Tabbed browsing to see details about multiple data lineage views at the same time
Ability to comment on andannotate a metadata object
Ability to link to documents to add external information to a metadata object
Ability to edit attributes and relationships
Support for SAP R/3 and Microstrategy
Parallel resource loading to upload multiple resources concurrently

 

PowerCenter Real Time Edition
Version Features
PowerCenter 9.1 All PowerCenter Standard Edition enhancements, plus change data capture, messaging, and Web services support
New Data Services Web Services Option—faster Web services creation from WSDL or existing data objects, transformations, mapplets, and hierarchical datatypes and easier service reuse
Improved XML exception management to validate and route invalid XML to separate output group
Dynamic lookup cache refresh, enabling update of lookup cache based on results of an expression
Session log file rotation to limit size of session logs for real-time sessions by time or file size
PowerCenter 8.6 Real-time data integration service with real-time session recovery and partitioning
Change data capture of relational data sources
Automatic scaling of Web services
Ability to define data integration processes using  Business Process Modeling Notation-based graphical tool with automatic generation of executable Business Process Execution Language processes
Enhanced support for looping, conditional logic, error handling, and compensation
Ability to define approval chains, long-running, stateful processes, and human activity tasks
Dynamic partitioning