PowerCenter Advanced Edition

High-Performance Data Integration Platform for Enterprise Deployments

Informatica PowerCenter is a unified enterprise data integration platform for accessing, discovering, and integrating data from virtually any business system, in any format. PowerCenter Advanced Edition (AE) expands the breadth of PowerCenter Standard Edition with powerful metadata analysis, team-based development, and Web-based reporting capabilities that are ideally suited for Integration Competency Center (ICC) environments, and the broader use of PowerCenter across a wide spectrum of data integration initiatives.

Key Features

Metadata Manager. This tool creates an integration metadata catalog that provides a common taxonomy for business and IT collaboration. The tool automatically delivers an audit trail that documents changes to data as it flows through various enterprise systems.

• Rapidly identify information assets, relationships, process flows, and data lineage across data sources, transformation mappings, and reports
• Predict, assess, and manage the impact of change to data with a visual map of data dependencies
• Import, aggregate, and link together metadata from different applications to facilitate centralized maintenance and comprehensive impact analysis across multiple systems

Team-Based Development. This feature takes advantage of PowerCenter’s flexible, metadata-driven architecture to ensure that development work can be reused across platforms and projects without re-coding.

• Collaborate easily across functional teams—such as development, quality assurance, production administration—or across geographically disparate teams, whether onshore or offshore
• Expedite your response to changing business needs while reducing development costs
• Enhance your productivity and flexibility with powerful version control and configuration management capabilities

Data Analyzer. This tool provides easy-to-use wizards to help you create and maintain intuitive, dynamic dashboards and reports.

• Speed delivery of relevant data to users
• Respond effectively to changing business requirements
• Improve accuracy of data throughout the integration lifecycle

New and Enhanced in PowerCenter 8.5

• Centralizes all configuration and monitoring tasks across PowerCenter AE applications, including the management of users, groups, privileges, and roles
• Reduces administration costs in an enterprise environment

Personalized Lineage

• Increases insight into complex data relationships with Metadata Manager’s intuitive, dynamic data lineage and advanced search, filtering, and personalization capabilities
• Lets you quickly access and discover the metadata you need

Comprehensive Impact Analysis

• Leverages an integration metadata catalog that provides direct connectivity to enterprise applications and mainframe systems
• Provides impact analysis that lets you quickly assess which data assets would be affected by a potential change, improving IT responsiveness
• Increases insight into enterprise data by incorporating profiling results, annotations, and documentation

Reentrant Data Services

• Enables you to run a single instance of a data integration workflow multiple times to maximize limited computing capacity
• Provides dynamic scalability of Web services deployments on a single or multiple grid nodes
• Supports thousands of concurrent service requests, making PowerCenter AE ideal for shared services environments, such as ICCs

Product Literature

PowerCenter AE Datasheet
PowerCenter Brochure