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INFORMATICA® POWERCONNECT™ PRODUCTS

Informatica PowerConnect ™ is a family of enterprise software products that allow

companies to directly source and integrate ERP, CRM, real-time message queue,
mainframe, AS/400 data, metadata, and remote data with other enterprise data and deliver
it to data warehouses, operational data stores, business intelligence tools, and packaged
analytic applications. An extension to Informatica data integration software, Informatica
PowerConnect eliminates the need for customers to manually code extraction programs
for their enterprise applications, and ensures that mission-critical operational data can be
used to inform key business decisions.

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COMPLEX PROBLEM
With hundreds of software systems, new and existing
data formats, changing protocols, legacy applications
and systems, securing access to data is complex. But the
promise of successfully bringing disparate data and
systems into a collaborative and complementary
architecture is too significant to ignore. Ultimately,
enterprise data, integrated from a wide variety of
transactional applications and systems, feeds data
warehouses, operational data stores and analytic
applications—the integral components of the business
analytic infrastructure.
INDUSTRY-LEADING CONNECTIVITY
SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Informatica understands the requirements of successfully
designing and implementing analytic connectivity
software. With PowerConnect solutions engineered to
meet the changing requirements of enterprise
applications, and data formats, Informatica simplifies
data integration management and maintenance.
Informatica software as a key element of their business
analytic infrastructure.
KEY BENEFITS
• Unmatched sourcing capabilities: ERP, EAI, CRM,
legacy, relational, flat files
• Leverages existing software/application investments
• Native connectivity to data and metadata
• Codeless, packaged connectivity
CONNECTIVITY WITH LEADING
ENTERPRISE APPLICATION
INTEGRATION (EAI) PRODUCTS
EAI products such as TIBCO Rendezvous, Active
Enterprise and IBM MQSeries cannot be used to
effectively load operational data stores and data
warehouses because they cannot scale adequately to
handle large volumes of data and because there are no
analytic transformation and metadata capabilities that
can take advantage of historical and consolidated data.

Informatica data integration connectivity software has Informatica PowerConnect for TIBCO Rendezvous
the flexibility to meet the requirements of the most and Active Enterprise provides critical real-time data
complex and geographically dispersed global feeds to and from the Informatica PowerCenterRT™
businesses. That's why over 79 percent of Fortune 100 platform, enabling deployment of real-time
companies—including 75 percent of the top global operational data stores, data warehouses, and data
players in energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, integration solutions involving TIBCO data.
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Figure 1
Informatica PowerConnect Products enable the integration of enterprise application data and metadata with other
enterprise data for analytics

Informatica PowerConnect for IBM MQSeries provides Informatica PowerConnect for SAP R/3 provides critical
crucial real-time data feeds to and from the Informatica integration between SAP R/3 and Informatica
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PowerCenterRT platform, enabling deployment of real- PowerCenter or PowerCenterRT, eliminating the need to
time operational data stores, data warehouses, and data hand-code highly complex and maintenance-intensive
integration solutions involving MQSeries data. extraction routines, and enabling businesses to easily
incorporate the rich transactional data captured in their
CONNECTIVITY WITH LEADING SAP applications into real-time operational data stores,
ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING data warehouses, and data integration solutions.
PRODUCTS
Informatica PowerConnect for PeopleSoft provides
Informatica PowerConnect provides data and metadata critical integration between PeopleSoft applications and
integration between SAP R/3, PeopleSoft and Informatica Informatica PowerCenter. With Informatica
PowerCenter using a high-performance data integration PowerConnect for PeopleSoft, customers can
software engine.
automatically integrate all data structures from both
the PeopleSoft application data layer as well as the
PeopleTools layer with the Informatica metadata
repository, enabling rapid time to deployment of
enterprise data warehouses, operational data stores and
analytic applications.

CONNECTIVITY WITH LEADING

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS

Informatica PowerConnect provides data and metadata

integration between Siebel Analytics and Informatica
PowerCenter using a high-performance data integration
software engine.

Informatica PowerConnect for Siebel provides critical

integration between Siebel applications and
Informatica PowerCenter, enabling businesses to
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effectively incorporate the rich customer and market Informatica provides complete access to PeopleSoft metadata and logical constructs
data captured in their Siebel applications into
operational data stores, data warehouses, and data
Informatica PowerConnect for Mainframe and Informatica PowerConnect
integration solutions. Informatica PowerConnect for
for AS/400 enable customers to extract data and metadata natively from
Siebel eliminates highly complex and maintenance-
multiple database platforms, apply transformation logic to that data within
intensive hand coding of extraction routines, as well as
Informatica PowerCenter, and integrate the data with other business data
the need to rebuild calculated values and expressions
sources to populate a data warehouse, datamart or operational data store for
that reside within Siebel.
comprehensive business analytics.
CONNECTIVITY WITH LEGACY DATA
CONNECTIVITY WITH SAP BW
Accessing legacy systems can be a difficult and time
Informatica was the first to receive certified status from SAP for its solution for
intensive task. Informatica PowerConnect provides
loading data into SAP BW. PowerConnect enables integration of non-SAP data
direct, high-speed access to mainframe and AS/400
with SAP BW providing integration with data from other applications,
environments without requiring additional proprietary
locations, formats or protocols.
bridging software.
 Informatica PowerConnect for Remote Data allows
companies to exchange information with partners,
suppliers and other remote sources from across a WAN or
the Internet. Using a high-performance, secure and cost-
effective method, PowerConnect for Remote Data, allows
companies to integrate global corporate data and share
confidential data across networks with partners.

CONNECTIVITY WITH NEW SOURCES

For those systems that Informatica does not provide a
product for, a PowerConnect Software Development Kit
(SDK) is available from the Informatica Developer Network.

Informatica PowerConnect SDK provides support for

Figure 3
Informatica PowerConnect for Siebel provides complete access to
Siebel application data tables and metadata
Informatica PowerConnect for SAP BW (Business
Information Warehouse) provides critical integration
between SAP BW and Informatica PowerCenter data
integration software.
CONNECTIVITY WITH REMOTE DATA
As an extension to Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica
PowerConnect for Remote Data manages sourcing and
targeting of sensitive, high-volume data in disparate
geographic locations.
both batch and real-time connectivity. It is the same SDK
used to build the PowerConnect for TIBCO product and
can be used to provide product solutions for connectivity
to other application systems.
LEVERAGE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
Informatica PowerConnect Products acquire data from
enterprise applications using a high-performance data
integration software engine that accesses the rich metadata
held in the business objects layer or the message queue.
This tight integration enables companies to fully leverage
their investments in enterprise applications and
application integration and turn this data into rich
information for strategic decision making.

ABOUT INFORMATICA
Informatica Corporation is the leading provider of business analytics software that helps Global 2000 organizations monitor, manage, and optimize
the performance of key business operations across the enterprise. Today, more than 1500 customers worldwide have chosen Informatica to power
their analytic solutions—resulting in millions of dollars in cost savings and productivity gains.

For more information, call 1.650.385.5000, or 1.800.970.1179 in the U.S., or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com

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