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Informatica PowerCenter
Any Data. Any System. Anytime

Informatica PowerCenter provides a single enterprise data integration platform to help organizations access, transform, and integrate data from a large variety of systems and deliver that information to other transactional systems, real-time business processes, and people. PowerCenter supports the activities of a business' integration competency center (ICC) and other integration experts by serving as the foundation for data warehousing, data migration, consolidation, “single-view,”  metadata management, and synchronization . By enabling enterprises to create a single, consistent enterprise-wide information resource, PowerCenter helps them reduce IT costs and complexity, harness new technologies, and empower the business.

Your business turns to IT to support its needs, whether the issue is mergers and acquisitions, compliance, customer profitability, or any other strategic initiative. But IT often can't respond effectively. Hindered by a complex environment of systems that were not designed to share data, they respond slowly and often ineffectively, potentially compromising your business. Organizations must integrate data and manage their metadata using a robust enterprise data integration platform.

With Informatica PowerCenter you can:

• Integrate data to provide business users holistic access to enterprise data — data is comprehensive, accurate, and timely
  
• Scale and respond to business needs for information — deliver data in a secure, scalable environment that provides immediate data access to all disparate sources
  
• Simplify design, collaboration, and re-use to reduce developers' time to results — unique metadata management helps boost efficiency to meet changing market demands

Ingredients for Success

Enterprise-level data integration
Informatica PowerCenter helps organizations respond to the business in a more coordinated, strategic way by bringing together all enterprise data and ensuring it's trustworthy and timely. Leverage of standards, metadata, and near-universal mainframe data access enables you to unlock the value of information from your disparate applications and databases. PowerCenter ensures accuracy of data through a single environment for transforming,  profiling, integrating, cleansing, and reconciling data and managing metadata. It also helps ensure the right data reaches the right people at the right time, through real-time, on-demand, or periodic data updates.

Enterprise-level data integration
As your integrated IT resource becomes even more mission-critical, it must consistently provide secure, scalable, on-demand data. PowerCenter ensures security through complete user authentication, granular privacy management, and secure transport of your data. Linear scalability optimizes use of available resources—including 64-bit processors and Linux systems. Open APIs make it easier to add new data sources for extensibility. Processing options—including data-smart parallelism, partitioning, and the ability to scale out to heterogeneous grids—deliver flexibility in meeting increased demands. Interoperable and extensible, PowerCenter is portable across platforms without re-coding.

Developer Productivity
Your development teams must be able to respond promptly to your business' changing needs, rapidly designing, collaborating on, and building solutions that address your latest requirements. PowerCenter simplifies design processes by making it easy to search and profile data, reuse objects across teams and projects, and leverage metadata. It facilitates collaboration across teams, sites, and projects by providing granular version control and automated configuration. To minimize risk and increase speed of deployment, PowerCenter maximizes re-use of code and provides impact analysis and data lineage information to assess the consequences of each change before you implement.

PowerCenter Editions
PowerCenter is available in two editions:

• PowerCenter Standard Edition —The industry's leading software for accessing, integrating, and delivering data, PowerCenter Standard Edition cost-effectively leverages data from any system, to any system. PowerCenter Standard Edition allows installation in under thirty minutes.
  
• PowerCenter Advanced Edition — In addition to all the features of PowerCenter Standard Edition, PowerCenter Advanced Edition provides broad enterprise data integration with a single platform, robust metadata analysis and data-ready reporting , cost-effective  grid computing and team-based development capabilities. With PowerCenter Advanced Edition, organizations can realize the benefits of a unified platform that addresses the full data integration lifecycle-helping to drive productivity, lower maintenance costs, and gain a substantial cost advantage with a rapid out-of-the-box experience. PowerCenter Advanced Edition allows installation all from one CD, all in under an hour.