Automatically Create Data Integration Mappings with Mapping Architect for Visio

Mapping Architect for Visio, a key feature of Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition, simplifies and streamlines the process of creating and managing data integration mappings. It lets your IT organization automatically create data integration mappings with Informatica PowerCenter tools, templates, and resources. With Mapping Architect for Visio, your IT team can design a single mapping template and automatically generate many mappings based on specific parameters. It automatically generates Informatica PowerCenter mappings from best-practice templates and reverse-engineers existing mappings into reusable templates.

  • Accelerate project delivery by maximizing the reuse of data integration design assets and best practices and eliminating labor-intensive rework
  • Strengthen collaboration between IT and the business by streamlining communication among data architects, business analysts, and mapping developers
  • Keep design costs in check by increasing the accuracy and the turnaround time of data integration solution design specifications

Mapping Architect for Visio Key Features

  • Visio-based data-flow design tool for designing business and transformation logic and then using this template to automatically generate mappings, reusable transformations, mapplets, sessions, and workflow in Informatica PowerCenter
  • Reusable best-practice mapping templates based on Informatica Velocity
  • Access to open community of mapping template contributors in the Informatica Communities
  • Reverse-engineer Informatica PowerCenter mappings into Visio templates to document mapping processes or to kick-start reuse
  • Predefined wizards and templates to easily create common data integration mapping patterns, such as slowly changing dimensions
  • Custom mapping templates to simplify and streamline mapping generation