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9 + 5 Reasons to Upgrade to Informatica PowerCenter 9.5

  1. Increase Agility in Delivering Critical Data and Reports to the Business
    Access, profile and merge existing data and “big” data in real-time to deliver new insights rapidly with the PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition.
  2. Harness the Power of Big Data
    Leverage leading Hadoop distributions with enhanced capabilities loading to, processing on, and extracting from Hadoop.
  3. Connect with Social Media Data
    Capture feedback from social media streams with a streaming API for incoming data feeds, including enhanced Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin connectivity now optimized for data services, data quality, profiling and MDM use cases.
  4. Enable true business-IT collaboration
    Empower the analyst to directly find the business terms and data using Business Glossary and define mappings they need from higher level specifications with the Data Integration Analyst Tool. Analysts can now perform simple data integration tasks on their own with guided mappings that auto-map source to target, provide join recommendations, and preview data midstream.
  5. Simplify Web services development
    Build Web services from WSDL or existing data objects, transformations and mapplets, handle complex data types, consume RESTful Web services and reuse services much more easily than ever before with the new Data Services Web Services Option.
  6. Boost productivity with metadata management
    Manage change better while preserving data integrity with Metadata Manager and Business Glossary’s optimized data lineage and impact analysis..
  7. Test changes and upgrades up to 10x faster and increase test coverage with the Informatica Data Validation Option
    Any time you move or transform data, you run the risk of introducing errors. Become 10x more productive and reduce the risk of negatively impacting the business while increasing test coverage at the same time with the Informatica Data Validation Option.
  8. Validate Your Production Data with the Informatica Data Validation Option
    Schedule automatic data reconciliation of any data updates to production systems and help identify issues before they impact the business using the Informatica Data Validation Option.
  9. Proactively Identify Data Integration Risks
    Protect data integration projects by leveraging more than 25 pre-built rules and template that can help identify and alert on situations that may lead to process failures with Proactive Monitoring for PowerCenter Operations.
  10. 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.
  11. Improve mainframe access and performance
    Maximize your mainframe investments with access and performance enhancements including real-time change data capture, VSAM partitioning, DB2 bulk loading and high availability. Reduce MIPS cost by offloading processing to zIIP processors.
  12. Harden 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.
  13. Bullet-proof your security
    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).
  14. 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.

PowerCenter 9.5

PowerCenter Advanced Edition: Metadata Manager

Capabilities:

  • Delivers new XConnects – SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse, IBM Rational Data Architect, and BI and data modeling sources
  • Includes new XConnect certifications – IBM Cognos 10, CA ERwin 8, MicroStrategy 9.2.1, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, Sybase PowerDesigner 16 and Embarcadero ER/Studio 8.5.1
  • Delivers new, easy-to-use custom XConnect with better manageability of loads via validation and user-friendly logging

Benefits:

  • Expands metadata management connectivity

Informatica Data Integration Analyst Option

Capabilities:

  • Enables guided mappings that auto-map source to target, provides join recommendations, and previews data midstream in the mapping
  • Embeds profiling within mapping specifications, increasing analyst productivity and understanding of data
  • Enables SQL query interface for mapping specifications for those analysts who prefer to validate mapping logic using SQL
  • Provides descriptions that improve collaboration between analysts and developers

Benefits:

  • Increases productivity for self-service and collaboration for analysts

PowerCenter Pushdown Optimization Option

Capabilities:

  • Supports SQL-based error tables in Teradata
  • Supports SQL MERGE for Teradata
  • Supports case-insensitivity in aggregation on Teradata
  • Supports subquery when using SQL overrides on Teradata

Benefits:

  • Increases support for pushdown optimization in Teradata

PowerCenter Data Validation Option

Capabilities:

  • Includes functionality focused on operational production validation scenarios
    • Incremental data validation
    • Enhanced management reports and dashboards with drill down capabilities
    • User authentication via PowerCenter domains
  • Extends data connectivity with Salesforce.com, SAS, SAP Transparent Tables, IBM DB2 zOS, and IBM Netezza
  • Includes join wizard for complex table joins and heterogeneous tables

Benefits:

  • Lowers risk of production failures when rolling out new data integration processes to production systems