Informatica Data Services

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Informatica Data Services accesses and delivers data as a service to any application in any way at any time.

Using Informatica Data Services will allow your IT organisation to:

• Easily access and analyse all your data – no matter what type and where located
• Deliver data quality and data integration projects faster
• Develop sophisticated and reusable data services once and deploy in as many ways as the data is required

Agile Solutions can help you with everything you need to leverage the robust, flexible data access and delivery capabilities of Informatica Data Services within your organisation.

Product features

Logical Data Objects

• Build reusable logical data objects based on business entities e.g. customer, product, order
• Reuse existing data integration and data quality logic across all projects
• Deliver data physically or virtually and specify the whens and hows of delivery without amending the integration logic
• Provide a data abstraction layer for applications to consume the same data no matter how the underlying integration logic is implemented
• Eliminate the impact of changing underlying data sources from the applications consuming the data
• Combine multiple heterogeneous in real time and present as a single source to consuming applications e.g. virtual database
• Query a data service with ODBC or JDBC client tools as if it was a physical object

Unified Platform

• Utilise Informatica Developer, a powerful, Eclipse-base development tool to create data services logic
• Utilise pre-built data integration and data quality transformations to enrich data services functionality
• Access, cleanse, transform and deliver data in real-time or batch
• Deliver data via any protocol e.g. federated SQL, web services, ETL
• Use Midstream profiling to validate and debug logic during development
• Share profiling results with business owners to ensure their requirements are being met

Centralised Administration

Single browser-based Administrator tool to:

• Configure and manage Data Services deployed as applications
• Oversee security and user management e.g. roles, privileges
• Perform monitoring and logging
• Handle all data services policies