Informatica Components
Informatica has following business components –

Informatica Power Center –
This component processes huge volumes of data and converts local repository into a global one. It supports ERP sources as well as diverse local and global repositories.
Informatica Power Connect –
This component mines the bulks of raw data and extracts meaningful insights and metadata from the ERPs and third-party applications.
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Informatica Power Mart –
This component is responsible for processing comparatively lesser volumes of data and supports local repositories only. Unlike the Informatica Power center, Power Mart does not support ERPs and global repositories.
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Informatica Power Exchange –
This component supports batch, real-time and changed data capture options in various set-ups. It allows the companies to leverage the data by avoiding coding data extraction programs manually.
Informatica Power Analyses –
This component provides various reporting facilities that help companies have a clear vision into the business processes. This tool provides versatile benefits ranging from accessing, examining and sharing the enterprise data in a lucid way.
Informatica Power Quality –Â
This component scales the services to share them across multiple machines. It consists of a set of applications and components that improve enterprise-wide data quality.
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Mapping Components – Mapping is a term used to denote Extraction, Transformation and Loading activities. It comprises of three significant concepts-
- Source Definition –Â The structure of the source file used to extract the data.
- Target definition – Structure of the target tables used to load the data.
- Transformation logic –Â Definition specifying the transformation activity.