Informatica Architecture

Informatica Architecture

 

Hi All,

I am writing here to introduce basic architectural view of Informatica PC tool. I am also new to this so whenever I find something new to share, I post here.

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture): 

Informatica is designed to support Service Oriented Architecture where each of business functionality is a Service.

Services are communicate with each other by passing data or by coordinating with each other. SOA is not a platform like J2EE, DOT NET but it can be used as bridge between two platforms. 

 Eg: Windows (Flat Files) ---- Informatica SOA Bridge ---- Oracle RDBMS

#Components of Informatica PC:

 

This can be explained in 3 parts:

1. Client Tools:

    They are the development tools available for developer. Includes,

•  Designer
• Repository Manager
• Workflow Manager
• Workflow Monitor

2. PC Repository:

• It is the heart of Informatica, which is a kind of inventory where all the data related to Mappings, Sources, Targets is stored. This is where metedata for your application is stored.
• All the Tools and  Server fetched metadata from here. Also stores User information like usernames, password, privileges, permissions etc. Repository is a RDBMS.

3. PC Server:

• It is the place where all execution take place. Server makes physical connection to Sources/Targets, fetches data from sources, applies transformation mentioned in mapping & load the data into Target system.

Thanks for reading.

-Nitesh.