Data Sheet

Informatica PowerCenter
Real Time
Integrate and Provision Operational Data
in Real Time
Benefits
Your IT organization faces tough challenges:
• Cost-effectively scale IT
• Scalability. Your IT infrastructure must accommodate growing data volumes and
operations with a real-time
growing numbers of concurrent requests and users. How can you cost-effectively
data integration environment
scale IT operations?
• Reduce risk by making • Risk management. Inaccurate, inconsistent, duplicate, or out-of-date data populates your
real-time data available in business systems and applications. How can you maintain real-time, 24x7, mission-
failure conditions critical operations and ensure that real-time data is accurate and reliable?
• Performance and agility. Your operational and transactional systems aren’t synchronized.
• Increase business agility and There are lapses in capturing and processing data changes. How can your IT
performance with right-time organization supply the business support with the data it needs to make better,
data integration timelier business decisions?

Increase Agility and Reduce Risk with High-Performance, Real-Time

Data Integration
Informatica® PowerCenter® Real Time is highly scalable, high-performance enterprise
data integration software. It accesses and integrates data from virtually any system, in
any format, and delivers that data throughout the enterprise, at any speed. PowerCenter
Real Time provides all the capabilities of Informatica PowerCenter Standard and includes
additional capabilities for integrating and provisioning operational data in real time.

Packaged for flexibility and any data integration latency, Real Time supports operational
data integration projects that require the exchange of data among operational applications.
It enables the development and delivery of sophisticated data services via a service-oriented
architecture (SOA).

The Foundation for Real-Time Data Integration Projects and Enterprise

Integration Initiatives
Highly available, high-performing, and fully scalable, PowerCenter Real Time is the
foundation for real-time data integration. It serves as the ideal technology infrastructure for
data governance, data migration, and data warehousing projects, as well as for Integration
Competency Centers (ICCs) and SOAs.

Whether you’re integrating data inside or outside your enterprise, nothing in its class
is faster. Security is industrial strength. PowerCenter Real Time fits into your existing IT
infrastructure, so you can make the most of the technology you own now.

Business analysts, data analysts, architects, developers, and entire global development
teams in every industry all rely on PowerCenter Real Time.
 Key Features

Change Data Capture for Relational Reliable, Scalable Data Processing

Data Sources and Delivery
PowerCenter Real Time captures changes in data PowerCenter Real Time horizontally scales message
sources as they happen for processing and routing to processing and delivery to handle massive real-time
multiple target applications. It ensures referential data data volumes. It prevents data loss and data duplication
integrity of real-time change data streams. even in system failure scenarios and ensures referential
data integrity for real-time change data streams.
Zero-Latency Processing
PowerCenter Real Time enables continuous data Dynamic Partitioning
processing with a zero-latency engine. PowerCenter Real Time divides data processing into
It supports batch, trickle-feed, and subsets, which run in parallel and are spread among
real-time data integration latencies in a single available CPUs in a multiprocessor system.
optimized environment. It provides visual controls for a wide range of
partition schemes.

“Yes, Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time] saves BNY Mellon money, but more importantly it allows us to use
our intellectual property more effectively. Our developers… are working faster, innovating, and focusing…
on solving business problems.”
– Sateesh Prabakaran, Chief Architect
Bank of New York Mellon

PowerCenter Real Time supports the noninvasive capture of database changes as they occur, providing real-
time access to significant business events.
Universal Data Access Built-In Web Services Support
PowerCenter Real Time enables a single approach PowerCenter Real Time leverages Web services
to accessing data in a wide variety of systems protocols, including XML, WSDL, and
and formats. When complemented by Informatica SOAP, to access data, metadata, and data
PowerExchange®, PowerCenter Real Time provides integration workflows within an SOA. It provides
access to: a Web services hub for centralized monitoring
and reporting along with built-in support for
• Structured, unstructured, and semistructured data
WS-Security, a built-in WSDL editor, and a Web
• Relational, mainframe, and file- and standards-
services testing tool.
based data
• Data in packaged applications Dynamically Scalable Data Services
• NoSQL big data stores such as Hadoop HDFS PowerCenter Real Time enables existing batch and
• Social data such as Facebook, LinkedIn, real-time data transformation logic to be exposed and
and Twitter reused as data services. It automatically scales Web
• Message queue data services to support a large number of concurrent
workloads, typical of a shared services Integration
Competency Center (ICC) environment.

“Ensenda’s goal is to minimize the time needed to onboard a customer or a carrier, and
Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time] greatly reduced the development effort needed to do
this. It made the whole process a lot faster.”
– Vianna Quock, Director of Product Management
Ensenda, Inc.

PowerCenter Real Time’s zero-latency engine enables continuous data processing and supports batch, trickle-
feed, and real-time data integration latencies in a single optimized environment.
 Key Features

Data Integration Services Integration Workflows

PowerCenter Real Time enables your IT organization PowerCenter Real Time manages and tracks the
to access, transform, and deliver data across the complex flow of data across transactional systems,
enterprise without generating code or having to databases, and other data sources through visual
hand-code data integration procedures. It scales tools. Using its built-in, time- or event-based scheduler
to support large volumes of data over multiple for automated, “lights-out” operation, your IT team
concurrent sessions. can schedule and execute data integration that
doesn’t intrude on business operations.
Global Metadata Services
PowerCenter Real Time defines, modifies, and Integration with Messaging Systems
enables reuse of data integration procedures by PowerCenter Real Time supports reading from and
storing and managing data models, transformations, writing to such messaging systems as JMS (e.g.,
workflows, and other artifacts. It integrates data by Informatica, Oracle, Sun, TIBCO, IBM, JBoss),
combining metadata-driven data integration logic webMethods X-Broker, IBM WebSphere MQ, and
with a high-performance transformation engine. Microsoft MQ.

“By using Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time] to build a real-time data infrastructure, Daewoo Securities
has achieved key benefits in terms of data processing speed, data conformity, and change data
management. Overall, this system … has given us a cushion against risks to our competitiveness.”
– Ilhun Lim, E-Business System Manager in the IT Center
Daewoo Securities

PowerCenter Real Time supports reading from and writing to a variety of messaging systems.
Robust Development Tools • A codeless, object-based, visual development

PowerCenter Real Time provides tools that facilitate environment that supplies built-in parallel
collaboration among architects, analysts, and processing transformations, a robust expression
developers. These robust development tools are language, and extensible interfaces
accessible via an easy-to-use interface: • A comprehensive library of transformation objects
for creating and extending context-independent,
• A Web-based, global administration console
reusable integration objects
designed for distributed environments that
• An extensive expression library for expanding the
centralizes all administrative, security, operational,
existing set of predefined expressions and creating
and service-monitoring tasks
user-defined functions
• Reusable mapping templates for designing
• A robust visual debugger that speeds iterative
business/transformation logic in a modeling tool,
development and minimizes error recovery logic
such as Visio, and automatically generating data
for design and run-time environments
integration mapping

“The ICC and Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time] are helping to reduce data integration time by up
to 70 percent. That makes a huge difference … from how quickly we make decisions, to how fast R&D
can develop new solutions, to how quickly we respond to our customers’ needs.”
– David Bonnet, Technical Lead
Qualcomm

PowerCenter Real Time provides support for Web services with a graphical development environment,
centralized monitoring and reporting along with built-in support for WS-Security, a built-in WSDL editor, and a
Web services testing tool.
 Key Features

Reference Table Manager Mapping Architect for Excel

This feature simplifies and streamlines the creation Mapping Architect for Excel automatically generates
and management of all types of reference data, data integration mappings from source and target
including default values, valid values, and cross- metadata imported directly from the PowerCenter
reference mapping data values. Business analysts repository. With this feature, business and IT users
and other subject matter experts use it to create, can build specifications and generate mappings
edit, and maintain reference data tables. IT in one easy step using Microsoft Excel and a rich
organizations then use these reference tables client interface. This feature preserves business
to migrate data and to manage lookup tables. requirements in a single technical specification by
Reference Table Manager includes: using annotations to ensure that no requirements are
overlooked. Spreadsheet specifications can be saved
• Manual edit capabilities to edit reference data
and reused to generate future mappings.
prior to data migration
• Audit trails to document changes to
reference tables
• Import/export capabilities that handle such
reference tables as .csv

“By leveraging the flexible and scalable data services capabilities of Informatica PowerCenter Real Time,
LinkShare will be able to consistently roll out new products faster than before, meet customer demands for
reporting and analysis, and grow our business.”
– Jonathan M. Levine, Chief Technology Officer
LinkShare

Designed for distributed environments, PowerCenter Real Time provides a global administration console that
centralizes all administrative, security, operational, and service-monitoring tasks in a Web-based interface.
Mapping Architect for Visio LDAP Integration
This Microsoft Visio-based data-flow design PowerCenter Real Time supports secure authentication
tool simplifies and streamlines the creation and of users and groups through an enterprise directory
management of data integration mappings. It lets system. It provides a choice between either
your IT organization automatically create data PowerCenter or LDAP for authentication.
integration mappings with PowerCenter tools,
templates, and resources. Reverse-engineering
Enterprise-Grade Security
capabilities convert PowerCenter mappings into PowerCenter Real Time provides granular privileges
Visio templates to document mapping processes and flexible permissions management to ensure
or to kick-start reuse. Mapping Architect for security, particularly across large, globally distributed
Visio includes: teams. With enterprise-grade security, your IT
organizations can limit user access to only the minimal
• A Visio-based data-flow design tool for designing
functionality and data needed, reducing the risk of
business and transformation logic and then using
potential security breaches.
this template to automatically generate mappings,
reusable transformations, mapplets, sessions, and Operating System Profiles
workflows in PowerCenter PowerCenter Real Time ensures secure access
• Reusable best-practice mapping templates based to file system resources through PowerCenter
on Informatica VelocitySM workflows executed by different departments and
• Access to open community of mapping template users. The software tracks and monitors usage by
contributors in the Informatica communities specific groups within a shared environment, such
• Reverse-engineering capabilities to convert as an Integration Competency Center, to facilitate
PowerCenter mappings into Visio templates to departmental charge backs.
document mapping processes or to kick-start reuse
Extended Variables and Parameterization
• Predefined wizards and templates to easily create
PowerCenter Real Time improves reusability and
common data integration mapping patterns, such
developer productivity by providing flexible access
as slowly changing dimensions
to design and run-time metadata within the data
• Custom mapping templates to simplify and
mapping, session, and workflow logic.
streamline mapping generation

“We’re getting business out the door faster and more accurately with the improvements we have
implemented using Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time]. Others within the organization have seen the
success we’ve achieved and are asking us how they can apply the Web services we’ve developed.”
– Stephanie Hansen, Senior Programmer Analyst
State Auto
Key Benefits
Cost-Effectively Scale IT Operations with a Real-Time Data
Integration Environment
PowerCenter Real Time enables your IT organization to intelligently scale operational
About Informatica
scenarios to meet not only increasing data volumes but also growing numbers of concurrent
requests. You can support the large number of concurrent users typical in an ICC Informatica is a leading
independent software
environment. You can quickly and easily deploy real-time data integration solutions and
provider focused on delivering
develop reusable data services to provision data in an SOA. Providing a single environment
transformative innovation for
for both operational and analytical data integration, PowerCenter Real Time enables your
the future of all things data.
team to accelerate development cycles and reduce IT costs.
Organizations around the world
rely on Informatica to realize their
Reduce Risk with Real-Time Data Available Even in Failure Conditions
information potential and drive
PowerCenter Real Time ensures the integrity of real-time data even in failure conditions.
top business imperatives. More
You can avoid duplicate records when resolving partially completed processing. You can than 5,800 enterprises depend on
guarantee that messages are read, processed, and delivered only once and in order, Informatica to fully leverage their
even in system failure scenarios. PowerCenter Real Time reduces the risk of inaccurate, information assets residing on-
inconsistent, or out-of-date data populating business systems and applications and helps premise, in the Cloud and on the
your IT organization maintain real-time, 24x7, mission-critical operations. internet, including social networks.

Increase Business Agility and Performance with Right-Time

Data Integration
With PowerCenter Real Time, your IT organization can make any data available
whenever it is desired, in whatever form necessary, regardless of where it resides. You
can synchronize all operational and transactional systems with consistent and accurate
information and supply the business with the data it needs to make better, timelier
business decisions.

Your IT organization can ensure that data changes are captured and processed in true
real time. PowerCenter Real Time empowers your IT organization to help the business take
advantage of the timeliest information to accelerate businesses processes, resolve issues,
support approvals, and make better decisions more quickly. By processing and delivering
data at the right time, PowerCenter Real Time helps you improve business performance.

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