Informatica is a firm specializing in Enterprise Cloud Data Management which aims to allow businesses to fully utilize their most significant assets. Inventing a fresh category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), the firm utilizes AI to manage data across multi-cloud, hybrid systems. This innovation offers modern, advanced business strategies by democratizing data. With a global reach, the company is focused on driving digital transformation powered by data. The firm's tagline is, 'Where data comes to life'.
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Informatica Powercenter has a user-friendly UI which helps the fresher to learn the use quicker. Also, the link option which highlights the columns helps to back track the data flow in an easier way. In-built scheduler helps to run the workflow and schedule the runs automatically. The session logs from the monitor are detailed and help to debug the error easily at every stage level. Also you can override the source, lookup queries using SQL Override function.
I like how all the details of the pipeline work flow can be found in one place and how compartmentalized the objects are. Specifically, I enjoy the feature of having to trace back each column to its origin be checking the backward lineage.
The end to end ETL ecosystem
Initial connection and logging into a repository is slow and time consuming, You first need to connect repo, then connect folder and then access the workflow/session/mapping. You always need a session and workflow to run a mapping and check your development. Sometimes the changes made in the mappings do not reflect in the session level until you refresh manually.
It is not intuitive at all. It takes a lot of trial and error to figure out what each item means.
Its user interface can be made simple and more intutive