Informatica Architecture

Informatica Architecture is divided into two components:
1. Server Components --> Server Components in Informatica are:
a. Repository Server
b. Informatica Server
2. Client Components --> Client Components in Informatica are:
a. Workflow Designer
b. Workflow Manager
c. Workflow Monitor
d. Repository Manager
Here is the Architecture Flow Diagram of Informatica:
Now, let`s talk about the flow in detail:
A developer writes a program in the Designer. The program is a GUI-Based program and is called Mapping. Once the mapping is created, the mapping needs to be saved into the repository.
Once the program(mapping) is saved, the next step is to execute the program. To execute the program WorkFlow Manager tool is required. You cannot execute the mapping directly, you need to create a session task for the mapping. Once the session task is created it needs to be saved into the repository.
Also, you cannot execute the session task directly. For execution you need to create a Workflow using the Workflow Manager tool. Once created you need to save the workflow to the repository. Workflow will be executed from the workflow manager.
During the execution of the workflow, you can monitor the activities using the WorkFlow Monitor.
In the next tutorial, we are going to define the Informatica Client Tools.