Informatica Architecture

Before starting with Informatica, we need to understand what are the important components of Informatica and how it works.

Informatica tool consists of following services & components

Repository Service – Responsible for maintaining Informatica metadata & providing access of same to other services.

1. Integration Service – Responsible for the movement of data from sources to targets
2. Reporting Service - Enables the generation of reports
3. Nodes – Computing platform where the above services are executed
4. Informatica Designer - Used for creation of mappings between source and target
5. Workflow Manager – Used to create workflows and other task & their execution
6. Workflow Monitor – Used to monitor the execution of workflows
7. Repository Manager – Used to manage objects in repository