Informatica Cloud is an on-demand
subscription service that provides cloud applications. When you subscribe to
Informatica Cloud, you use a web browser to connect to Informatica Cloud.
Informatica Cloud runs at a hosting facility.
Informatica Cloud includes the following components.
1. Informatica Cloud :- A browser-based application that runs at the Informatica
Cloud hosting facility. It allows you to configure connections, create users,
and create, run, schedule, and monitor tasks.
You can log on to Informatica Cloud application using your user id and password.
You can log on to Informatica Cloud application using your user id and password.
2. Informatica Cloud
hosting facility :- A facility where the
Informatica Cloud application runs. The Informatica Cloud hosting facility
stores all task and organization information like it is stored in PowerCenter
repository. Informatica Cloud does not store or stage source or target data.
3. Informatica Cloud
applications :- Applications that you can use to
perform tasks, such as data synchronization, contact validation, and data
replication.
4. Informatica Cloud
Secure Agent :- A component of Informatica Cloud
installed on a local machine that runs all tasks and provides firewall access
between the hosting facility and your organization. When the Secure Agent runs
a task, it connects to the Informatica Cloud hosting facility to access task
information, connects directly and securely to sources and targets, transfers
data between sources and targets, and performs any additional task
requirements.
Informatica
Cloud Applications
Informatica Cloud provides the
following applications to help with different type of data integration tasks.
These applications can be used to perform tasks, such as data synchronization,
contact validation, and data replication and more.
- Data Replication
- Contact Validation
- Data Assessment
- Data Masking
- PowerCenter
- Mapping Configuration
- Data Synchronization
PowerCenter
The PowerCenter application allows
you to Import PowerCenter workflows in to
Informatica Cloud and run them as Informatica Cloud tasks. When you
create a task, you can associate it with a schedule to run it at specified
times or on regular intervals. Or, you can run it manually. You can monitor
tasks that are currently running in the activity monitor and view logs about
completed tasks in the activity log.
Below screenshot captures the options available to import a PowerCenter workflow.
Below screenshot captures the options available to import a PowerCenter workflow.
Mapping
Configuration
Mapping Configuration Task is similar to a session task in PowerCenter. The
Mapping Configuration Task allows you to process data based on the data flow
logic defined in a mapping.
Below screenshot captures the options available to build a mapping configuration.
Below screenshot captures the options available to build a mapping configuration.
When you create a mapping configuration task, you select the
mapping for the task to use, just like you choose a mapping while you create a
session task in PowerCenter. You also define the parameter value associated
with the mapping.
Data
Synchronization
Use to load
data and integrate applications, databases, and files. Includes
add-on functionality such as saved queries and mapplets. The Data Synchronization application
allows you to synchronize data between a source and target. This performs insert,update,delete and upsert operations.
Using data synchronization task you can perform insert,update,delete and upsert. Options are shown below.
Using data synchronization task you can perform insert,update,delete and upsert. Options are shown below.
For example, you can read sales
leads from your sales database and write them into Salesforce. You can also use
expressions to transform the data according to your business logic or use data
filters to filter data before writing it to targets.
Data
Replication
Use to replicate
data from Salesforce or database sources to database or file
targets. You might replicate data to archive the data, perform offline
reporting, or consolidate and manage data.
Shown is the options available to setup data replication task.
Shown is the options available to setup data replication task.
Contact
Validation
Contact validation is used to validate and correct postal address data, and
add geocode information to postal address data. You can also validate email
addresses and check phone numbers against the Do Not Call Registry. With the
Contact Validation application, you can validate and correct postal address
data, and add geocode information to postal address data. You can also validate
email addresses and check phone numbers against the Do Not Call Registry.
The Contact Validation application
reads data from sources, validates and corrects the selected validation fields,
and writes data to output files. In addition to validation fields, the Contact
Validation application can include up to 30 additional source fields in the
output files for a task.
Data
Assessment
The Data Assessment application allows you to evaluate the quality of your Salesforce
data. Use to measure and monitor
the quality of data in the Accounts, Contacts, Leads, and
Opportunities Salesforce CRM objects. It generates graphical dashboards that
measure field completeness, field conformance, record duplication, and address
validity for each Salesforce object. You can run data assessment tasks on an
on-going basis to show trends in the data quality.
Data
Masking
Use data masking to replace source data in sensitive columns with realistic
test data for non-production environments. Data masking rules define
the logic to replace the sensitive data. Assign data masking rules to the
columns you need to mask.