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PowerCenter

Lower costs, boost productivity, and reduce risk with highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration software.

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Access, Integrate, and Deliver Data Quickly and
Cost-Effectively with Enterprise Data Integration

Informatica PowerCenter sets the standard for highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration software. Informatica PowerCenter empowers your IT organization to implement a single approach to accessing, transforming, and delivering data without having to resort to hand coding. The software scales to support large data volumes and meets enterprise demands for security and performance. Informatica PowerCenter serves as the foundation for all data integration projects and enterprise integration initiatives, including data governance, data migration, and enterprise data warehousing.

  • Provide the right information, at the right time so that the business has the timely, relevant, and trustworthy data it needs, when it needs it, to make better and timelier business decisions
  • Cost-effectively scale to meet increased data demand, save hardware costs, and reduce the costs and risks associated with data downtime
  • Empower teams of developers, analysts, and administrators to work faster and better together, sharing and reusing work, to accelerate project delivery

Informatica PowerCenter Editions

Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition

Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition sets the standard for highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration software. Providing superlative scalability, security, and reliability, Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition is used across a wide spectrum of data integration initiatives, including data warehousing and data migration.

Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition Key Features

  • Universal data access, data integration, and global metadata services
  • Robust development environment and productivity tools
  • Reference Table Manager for business users
  • Mapping Architect for Visio for IT users

Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition

Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition is for IT organizations that are standardizing data integration at an enterprise level, across numerous projects and departments. This edition includes powerful capabilities that are ideally suited for data governance and Integration Competency Centers (ICCs).

Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition Key Features

  • Metadata manager for IT users
  • Business glossary for business users
  • Dynamic partitioning for concurrent data processing
  • Workflow on grid for optimizing resource usage

Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition

Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition is highly scalable, high-performance enterprise data integration software that works with both emerging technologies, such as Hadoop, and traditional data management infrastructures. It provides a safe on-ramp to big data, enabling your IT organization to integrate and analyze new types and sources of data. With this edition, developers triple their productivity by moving away from hand coding to a no-code visual development environment. Data scientists and analysts can focus on big data insights—not on data integration. This edition provides a proven path of innovation while reducing big data management costs and minimizing risk.

Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition Key Features

  • Data integration, ETL, data profiling, complex data parsing on Hadoop
  • Design once, deploy anywhere with no-code productivity
  • Universal access to big transaction and big interaction data
  • High-speed data ingestion and extraction, unlimited scalability, and 24x7 high availability

Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition

Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition enables business and IT to deliver a current, complete, and trusted view of the business – within days vs. months. It includes all the capabilities of PowerCenter Standard Edition and adds features that increase productivity and agility.

Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition Key Features:

  • Role-Based Tools that Share Common Metadata
  • Integrated, Any-Stage Data Profiling of Federated Data
  • Model-Driven and Metadata-Based Creation of Data Services
  • Single High-Performance Environment for Data Integration and Data Federation

Informatica PowerCenter Real-Time Edition

Informatica PowerCenter Real-Time Edition is for IT organizations that are integrating and provisioning operational data in real time. Packaged for simplicity and flexibility, this edition empowers your IT organization to develop and deliver sophisticated data services via a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Informatica PowerCenter Real-Time Edition Key Features

  • Change data capture for relational data sources
  • Integration with messaging systems
  • Built-in Web services support and dynamically scalable data services
  • Dynamic partitioning for concurrent data processing

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