Service Oriented Architecture

Optimize Your SOA With Reusable Data Services

The Informatica solution for service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the missing but critical technology foundation for delivering trustworthy, actionable, and authoritative data as a service to SOAs. This solution enhances your SOA’s ability to supply the data your business needs—when, where, and how it needs it—to stay agile and competitive.

• Improve decision making by providing fast and direct access to consistent and accurate data that the business needs and trusts
• Increase customer satisfaction and loyalty by delivering a single, complete view of the customer that includes critical transactional data
• Speed time to market and lower development costs by providing a common, model-based, metadata-driven data services layer and pre-built complex transformations that increase productivity and reuse
• Improve IT’s adaptability and agility in response to changing business needs with a flexible data abstraction layer and providing real-time access to data at any latency
• Reuse existing resources and assets by leveraging existing Informatica skillsets and services across projects, as well as the largest independent data integration ecosystem of developers and partners
• Reduce the complexity of integration by replacing traditional point-to-point application and data integration with common, reusable, and flexible data services
• Minimize risk of data downtime or outages by providing a high performance, scalable, secure, and reliable data services and data integration foundation
• Minimize risk of project overruns with an agile data integration framework and data quality certification
• Support compliance and reduce risk by involving business users up front to create and validate rules and enabling effective change management through graphical impact analysis and data lineage

Data Integration Technology Requirements for SOA	Informatica Solution for SOA
Support rapid, codeless development of data services
Reduce the complexity of integrating diverse data silos
Deliver technology data abstraction layer with data virtualization
Support the entire data integration life cycle
Provide broad data access capabilities for all enterprise data
Deliver timely data using a complementary, high-performance platform
Enable metadata-driven data lineage and impact analysis

Informatica Solution for SOA Key Features

Flexible and Scalable Data Services

• Infrastructure services for authentication, access control, and logging
• CRUD services for creating, reading, and updating data from all forms of back-end systems, including structured, unstructured, semi-structured, mainframe, and cloud
• Integration services for providing the full range of data integration functions, such as data access, profiling, transformation, quality, and delivery, including federation
• Metadata services for managing and using technical and business metadata for discovery, audit, lineage, and impact analysis

Right-Time Delivery of High-Quality Data

• Provides a full range of integrated data quality transformations—including data cleansing, matching, and validation to ensure data is trustworthy
• Supplies role-based tools that share common metadata to proactively identify, analyze, and fix complex data quality issues

Flexibility to Rapidly Create and Support Change

• Provides a codeless, wizard-based, metadata-driven development environment for rapidly creating sophisticated data services
• Supports flexible data delivery mechanisms—in batch, change data capture, and real-time modes, including data federation and data virtualization
• Supports early business user involvement in validating business terms and rules
• Provides rich metadata management and analysis for data lineage and impact analysis of potential changes

Informatica Products for Service Oriented Architecture

PowerCenter

Accesses, integrates, and delivers any and all data quickly and cost-effectively, without hand coding.

PowerExchange

Accesses mission-critical data and delivers it throughout the enterprise wherever it's needed, on any schedule.

Data Services

Directly accesses and merges data across systems to deliver trusted data, less expensively.

Data Quality

Achieves pervasive data quality for all stakeholders, projects, applications using a single, unified platform.

Master Data Management

Provides flexible multidomain MDM technology to enable rapid deployments and extensibility across the enterprise.

Data Explorer

Finds hidden risks, pinpoints structural issues, and stops quality problems from spreading in data.

Data Archive

Safely archives application data to cost-effectively manage growing data volumes.

Data Subset

Creates database subsets from large, complex databases to better manage nonproduction systems.

Data Masking

Secures sensitive or confidential data in production and nonproduction systems.