Service Manager

The Service Manager is a service that manages all domain operations. It runs within Informatica Services. It runs as a service on Windows and as a daemon on UNIX. When you start Informatica Services, you start the Service Manager. The Service Manager runs on each node. If the Service Manager is not running, the node is not available. The Service Manager runs on all nodes in the domain to support the application services and the domain:   Application service support. The Service Manager on each node starts application services...

Nodes

When you install PowerCenter Services on a machine, you add the machine to the domain as a node. You can add multiple nodes to a domain. Each node in the domain runs a Service Manager that manages domain operations on that node. The operations that the Service Manager performs depend on the type of node. A node can be a gateway node or a worker node. You can subscribe to alerts to receive notification about node events such as node failure or a master gateway election. Gateway Nodes A gateway node is any node you configure to serve as a gateway for the domain. One node acts as the gateway at any given time. That node is called...

Understanding Domains Overview

PowerCenter has a service-oriented architecture that provides the ability to scale services and share resources across multiple machines. High availability functionality helps minimize service downtime due to unexpected failures or scheduled maintenance in the PowerCenter environment. The PowerCenter domain is the fundamental administrative unit in PowerCenter. The domain supports the administration of the distributed services. A domain is a collection of nodes and services that you can group in folders based on administration ownership. A node is the logical representation of a machine in a domain. One node in the domain...

Informatica Resources

Informatica Customer Portal As an Informatica customer, you can access the Informatica Customer Portal site at http://my.informatica.com. The site contains product information, user group information, newsletters, access to the Informatica customer support case management system (ATLAS), the Informatica Knowledge Base, Informatica Documentation Center, and access to the Informatica user community. Informatica Documentation The Informatica Documentation team takes every effort to create accurate, usable documentation. If you have questions,...

Commercial ETL vendors

    * Informatica    * Information Server    * Ab Initio    * BusinessObjects Data Integrator    * Oracle Data Integrator    * Oracle Warehouse Builder    * Integration Services    * Sybase ETL    * SAS ETL    * Pervasive ETL    * Adeptia ETL    * DBSoft...

DB Software Laboratory ETL software

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is a tool that enables to design a custom Business Intelligence application. It provides dimensional ETL process design, extraction from heterogeneous source systems, and metadata reporting functions. Oracle Warehouse Builder allows creation of both dimensional and relational models, and also star schema data warehouse architectures. Except of being an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool, Oracle Warehouse Builder also enables users to design and build ETL processes, target data warehouses, intermediate data storages and users access layers. It allows metadata reading in a wizard-driven form...

Adeptia ETL Suite

Adeptia ETL Suite (AES) is a graphical, easy-to-use data mapping solution that is ideal for aggregating data from multiple sources to populate databases and data warehouses for Business Intelligence solutions. AES is a comprehensive solution that combines data transport with powerful metadata management and data transformation capability. AES platform components Adeptia ETL consists of three distinct components. It has a web-based Design Studio that provides wizard-driven, graphical ability to document data rules as they relate to validations,...

Pervasive ETL Software

Pervasive ETL Software include data integration tools minimizng costs connected with system changing and making integration more efficient. They are designed for small and large companies. Easy-to-use graphical mapping interfaces increases work speed and allows developers to increase productivity. Pervasive Data Integrator Pervasive Data Integrator is enviroment which develops functionality for data aggreagating and data movement automating. It could load high performance data warehouse as well as smaller data parts. Unified toolset lets manage integration of many applications and operational data stores. Pervasive Integration...

SAS ETL

The ETL tools might be developed by different companies. One of them – widely known and popular – is SAS Enterprise which offers an integrated ETL platform. SAS is over twenty-five-year company from the USA offering business intelligence software. SAS – one of the market leaders – combines data warehousing and intelligence applications for traditional business. SAS’ platform is advertised as the one to accomplish current requirements of punctuality, cost-effectiveness, credibility and compatibility with different data storing systems. Moreover, the efficiency of SAS ETL is enough to support the whole enterprise processes,...

Sybase ETL

Sybase ETL application has been designed for loading the data from the source systems, transferring them to data sets, and in result, loading those transformed data to target data warehouse or database. ETL solution is characterized by easiness of operating and a high level of scalability, which has been obtained because of the unique GRID architecture which the platform is based on. The new generation of Sybase ETL application – Transform on Demand, provides the automation of data integration, by means of the unique method (Draw, Simulate, and Execute). This application doesn’t require any programming. Furthermore, it enables...

Microsoft Integration Services

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a part of the Microsoft's database product - Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server Integration Services first appeared in this implementation of SQL in the 2005 and has been continued through to SQL Server 2008. The main purpose of adding this component to the product was to make data integration in the database easy, uncomplicated and fast. The first question that should be asked is why do we need data integration in a SQL database. Data in regular databases is not very complicated, and accessing it is easy, because data accessing system is often a part of the database itself....

Oracle Warehouse Builder

Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is a tool that enables to design a custom Business Intelligence application. It provides dimensional ETL process design, extraction from heterogeneous source systems, and metadata reporting functions. Oracle Warehouse Builder allows creation of both dimensional and relational models, and also star schema data warehouse architectures. Except of being an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool, Oracle Warehouse Builder also enables users to design and build ETL processes, target data warehouses, intermediate data storages and users access layers. It allows metadata reading in a wizard-driven form...

ORACLE DATA INTEGRATOR

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a software application based on ETL (extract-transform-load) structure used for data transformation and merging processes. In today's business the meaning of well organized data has increased dramatically and that is why having specialized software is so important. Furthermore, these applications must be prepared to work in mixed systems and platforms environment and be sure that none of the quality will deteriorate. Oracle Data Integrator provides decalrative rules apart from implementation details and also its E-LT (extract-load, transform) structure eliminates need of having separate ETL...

BusinessObjects Data Integrator

The use of reliable and correct data is crucial for the business users and requires guarantee of data quality and both proper and constant controls and providing lineage of the data. Delivery of trusted information requires the process of data integration which enables data management to be smoothly performed thanks to e.g. finding sources of data, correcting errors, making changes. BusinessObjects Data Integrator (BODI) is a complex tool which provides a lot of options in data manipulation.    1. BusinessObjects Data integration process is divided into the following operations: Data unification    2....

Ab Initio ETL

The Ab Initio software is a Business Intelligence platform containing six data processing products: Co>Operating System, The Component Library, Graphical Development Environment, Enterprise Meta>Environment, Data Profiler and Conduct>It. It is a powerful graphical user interface-based parallel processing tool for ETL data management and analysis. Co>Operating System Ab Initio Co>Operating System is a foundation for all Ab Initio applications and provides a general engine for integration of all kinds of data processing and communication between all the tools within the platform. It runs on OS/390, zOS on Mainframe,...

IBM Infosphere Information Server

Information Server is a line of products from the IBM company responsible for data warehousing and data integration. IBM introduced Infosphere Information Server as a complete set of business intelligence and data warehousing products which operate in four functional areas:     * Source data profiling – consists of understanding and modeling the source data to detect inconsistencies, anomalies and problems with the data.     * (Information Analyzer, Business Glossary)     * Data quality assurance – data cleansing, standardizing, merging (Information Analyzer, QualityStage and...

INFORMATICA

Informatica PowerCenter is an enterprise data integration platform working as a unit. With its high availability as well as being fully scalable and high-performing, PowerCenter provides the foundation for all major data integration projects and initiatives throughout the enterprise.     * These areas include: B2B exchange     * data governance     * data migration     * data warehousing     * data replication and synchronization     * Integration Competency Centers (ICC)     * Master Data Management (MDM)    ...

ETL Products

Open source (freeware) data integration tools are the latest segment in the community-driven software. They are an alternative to commercial packaged solutions as well as an productive and efficient option to writing custom code. The most advanced ETL tools packages on the market include enterprise-level offers from IBM, Informatica or Ab Initio. They are designed to handle high performance and scalability requirements. Minimum prices of them range from $45,000 to around $150,000 per CPU for an Enterprise package. There are, however, less expensive options but they often are limited in support for heterogenous environments...

ETL TOOLS COMPARISON

ETL Tools - general information ETL tools are designed to save time and money by eliminating the need of 'hand-coding' when a new data warehouse is developed. They are also used to facilitate the work of the database administrators who connect different branches of databases as well as integrate or change the existing databases.     * The main purpose of the ETL tool is: extraction of the data from legacy sources (usually heterogenous)     * data transformation (data optimized for transaction --> data optimized for analysis)     * synchronization and cleansing of the data    ...

Different Types Of Data Warehouse ETL Tools

ETL Nowadays, most companies’ existence depends on data flow. When plenty of information is generally accessible and one can find almost everything he needs, managing became easier than ever before. The Internet simplifies cooperation – time needed to send and receive requested data gets shorter as more and more institutions computerize their resources. Also, the communication between separate corporation departments became easier – no one needs to send normal letters (or even the office boys) as the process is replaced by e-mails. Although...

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The Generic Meta Data Repository

The most important data model that the data warehouse developer needs to understand in the business intelligence environment is the meta data repository model. The focus of many projects is on operational source system or data warehouse models because that is where the actual raw data is stored. While this is unquestionably the primary purpose of the business intelligence environment, it is the meta data repository and its data model structure that allow the various function areas in the warehouse to communicate. The repository's role...

Phamaceutical Sales Data Warehouse Data Model

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DATA MODEL FOR AIRLINE RESERVATIONS DATA WAREHOUSE

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InsFocus BI - Data Model for Insurance

The data model design follows industry-proven dimension-modeling standards, and stores data at the lowest possible level of granularity. Concise policy information is detailed down to the coverage and risk parameter level. Claim information includes individual payments, historical reserve estimates and full tracking of claim status changes. The model is optimized for fast and flexible querying via InsFocus BI’s Query Engine. The insurance data warehouse’s design in not limited as is the case with traditional OLAP data models, and provides unrivaled query and analysis flexibility. Insurance business domains InsFocus BI's...