PowerExchange for Enterprise Applications

Access and integrate application-managed data

PowerExchange provides high-performance, uniform access to all major enterprise and packaged applications, whether the applications are on-premise, outsourced, or hosted Software as a Service (SaaS). Organizations can use PowerExchange to integrate application packages automatically and cost-effectively, by extracting and loading data through vendor-supported application-level interfaces. Data can be exchanged among applications to support application synchronization, application migration, and application consolidation.

Key Features

Simplified access to enterprise application data

• Provides an easy-to-use GUI for accessing all supported applications
• Flexible object filtering techniques make it fast and easy to locate needed data 
• Requires no specialized programming skills to access or update application-managed data

Optimized for each specific application

• Honors the security model of supported applications
• Supports native datatypes and special features
• Uses native interfaces and high-speed data loading APIs
• Automatically leverages the application layer metadata to speed development

Fully Integrated with PowerCenter

• Uses Informatica Data Quality to cleanse application-managed data
• Integrates application data with data from any other PowerExchange-supported source
• Leverages the scalability and high performance of PowerCenter

Benefits

Reduce business risk
Some enterprise applications prohibit direct access to application-managed data; others permit it, but use complex schemas that make it difficult and costly to access. Errors are typically difficult to locate and can damage the data that is the very foundation of the organization-offsetting the gain expected from accessing and integrating the application. PowerExchange eliminates the risk of typical errors and preserves the value of the operational data store.

Enhance organizational agility
As organizations grow they often find that the enterprise applications they depend on become inflexible. Mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and new regulations can make previously useful applications inhibitors to the kind of agility any organization needs. As organizations turn to off-premise SaaS as a way to improve flexibility, the difficulty of integrating SaaS-based data with data managed in-house often works against them. By unlocking complex applications, wherever they reside, PowerExchange enables an organization to develop the agility it needs to survive.

Decrease development cost
Sophisticated enterprise applications deliver considerable value to their users, but at the cost of complexity. Whether the application supports APIs, or permits access through a schema, it is expensive to develop, test, and deploy home-grown access capabilities even in the best of circumstances. The skills needed to accomplish this are not always available, and seldom are they easily affordable. PowerExchange eliminates the need for costly development skills by presenting an easy-to-use graphical view of the application, driven by application-layer metadata, for on-premise and hosted applications alike.

Supported Applications and Interfaces

Application	Source	Target	Access Supported
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne			JD Edwards OneWorld Tables and Views
JD Edwards World			JD Edwards World Tables and Views
Lotus Notes			Lotus Notes Documents and Email
Oracle E-Business Suite			Oracle EBusiness Suite Tables, Views, Flexfields, and Open Interfaces
PeopleSoft Enterprise			PeopleSoft Tables, Trees, and Component Interfaces
Salesforce (salesforce.com)			Salesforce AppExchange API
SAP NetWeaver			SAP Tables, RFC/BAPI, IDoc, DMI, BCI
SAP NetWeaver BI			SAP BI Staging BAPI, BW-OHS
SAS			SAS Tables and Views
Siebel			Siebel Tables, Business Components, and Business Services

"Informatica PowerCenter is the only solution that offered us the unique combination of universal data access, high performance, and data movement flexibility that we needed to implement a global data synchronization system across a heterogeneous infrastructure."  - Nelson Enriquez, Chief IT Architect, CEMEX read the full story   "As a long-time Informatica customer, we have relied on the PowerCenter platform to integrate disparate data across our enterprise. The new and powerful capabilities of Informatica PowerExchange for Salesforce provide additional support for our growth initiatives and contribute to our goals to achieve a holistic view of all critical data residing within and outside our enterprise." - Marti Menacho Chief Information Officer Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. read the full story

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