Data Sheet

Informatica PowerCenter
Real Time Edition
Integrate and Provision Operational Data
in Real Time
Beneits
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 Inaccurate, inconsistent, duplicate, or out-of-date data populates your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 Edition 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 Edition provides all the capabilities of Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition
and includes additional capabilities for integrating and provisioning operational data in
real time.

Packaged for lexibility and any data integration latency, this edition 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 Edition iss 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 Edition its 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 Edition.
 Key Features

Change Data Capture for Relational Reliable, Scalable Data Processing

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

“Yes, Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time Edition] 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 Edition supports the noninvasive capture of database changes as they occur, providing
real-time access to signiicant business events.
Universal Data Access Built-In Web Services Support
PowerCenter Real Time Edition enables a single PowerCenter Real Time Edition leverages Web
approach to accessing data in a wide variety of services protocols, including XML, WSDL, and
systems and formats. When complemented by SOAP, to access data, metadata, and data
Informatica PowerExchange®, PowerCenter Real Time integration worklows within an SOA. This edition
Edition provides access to: provides a Web services hub for centralized
monitoring and reporting along with built-in support
• Structured, unstructured, and semistructured data
for WS-Security, a built-in WSDL editor, and a Web
• Relational, mainframe, and ile- 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 Edition enables existing
• Social data such as Facebook, LinkedIn, batch and real-time data transformation logic to be
and Twitter exposed and reused as data services. It automatically
• Message queue data scales Web 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 Edition] 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 Edition’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 Worklows

PowerCenter Real Time Edition enables your IT PowerCenter Real Time Edition manages and tracks
organization to access, transform, and deliver data the complex low of data across transactional
across the enterprise without generating code or systems, databases, and other data sources through
having to hand-code data integration procedures. visual tools. Using its built-in, time- or event-based
This edition scales to support large volumes of data scheduler for automated, “lights-out” operation, your
over multiple concurrent sessions. IT team can schedule and execute data integration
that doesn’t intrude on business operations.
Global Metadata Services
PowerCenter Real Time Edition deines, modiies, Integration with Messaging Systems
and enables reuse of data integration procedures by PowerCenter Real Time Edition supports reading
storing and managing data models, transformations, from and writing to such messaging systems as JMS
worklows, and other artifacts. It integrates data by (e.g., 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 Edition] to build a real-time data infrastructure, Daewoo
Securities has achieved key beneits 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 Edition supports reading from and writing to a variety of messaging systems.
Robust Development Tools • A codeless, object-based, visual development

PowerCenter Real Time Edition provides tools that environment that supplies built-in parallel
facilitate collaboration among architects, analysts, processing transformations, a robust expression
and 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 predeined expressions and creating
and service-monitoring tasks
user-deined 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 Edition] 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 simpliies 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 speciications 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 speciication by
Reference Table Manager includes: using annotations to ensure that no requirements are
overlooked. Spreadsheet speciications 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 lexible and scalable data services capabilities of Informatica PowerCenter Real Time
Edition, 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 Oficer
LinkShare

Designed for distributed environments, PowerCenter Real Time Edition 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-low design PowerCenter Real Time Edition supports secure
tool simpliies and streamlines the creation and authentication of users and groups through an
management of data integration mappings. It lets enterprise directory system. It provides a choice
your IT organization automatically create data between either PowerCenter or LDAP
integration mappings with PowerCenter tools, for authentication.
templates, and resources. Reverse-engineering
capabilities convert PowerCenter mappings into Visio
Enterprise-Grade Security
templates to document mapping processes or to kick- PowerCenter Real Time Edition provides granular
start reuse. Mapping Architect for Visio includes: privileges and lexible permissions management to
ensure security, particularly across large, globally
• A Visio-based data-flow design tool for designing
distributed teams. With enterprise-grade security,
business and transformation logic and then using
your IT organizations can limit user access to only the
this template to automatically generate mappings,
minimal functionality and data needed, reducing the
reusable transformations, mapplets, sessions, and
risk of potential security breaches.
worklows in PowerCenter
• Reusable best-practice mapping templates based Operating System Proiles
on Informatica Velocity SM
PowerCenter Real Time Edition ensures secure
• Access to open community of mapping template access to ile system resources through PowerCenter
contributors in the Informatica communities worklows executed by different departments and
• Reverse-engineering capabilities to convert users. The software tracks and monitors usage by
PowerCenter mappings into Visio templates to speciic groups within a shared environment, such
document mapping processes or to kick-start reuse as an Integration Competency Center, to facilitate
• Predefined wizards and templates to easily create departmental charge backs.
common data integration mapping patterns, such
Extended Variables and Parameterization
as slowly changing dimensions
PowerCenter Real Time Edition improves reusability
• Custom mapping templates to simplify and
and developer productivity by providing lexible
streamline mapping generation
access to design and run-time metadata within the
Support for Mixed Versions of data mapping, session, and worklow logic.
Application Services
PowerCenter Real Time Edition supports mixed
versions of the repository service, integration service, “We’re getting business out the door faster and more
and Web services hub in a single PowerCenter accurately with the improvements we have implemented
domain. This edition simpliies upgrade of application using Informatica [PowerCenter Real Time Edition]. Others
services to newer versions incrementally and
within the organization have seen the success we’ve
administration of multiple application services from a
single console. achieved and are asking us how they can apply the Web
services we’ve developed.”
– Stephanie Hansen, Senior Programmer Analyst
State Auto
Key Beneits
Cost-Effectively Scale IT Operations with a Real-Time Data
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of concurrent requests. You can support the large number of concurrent users typical in an
of data integration software.
ICC environment. You can quickly and easily deploy real-time data integration solutions and Organizations around the world
develop reusable data services to provision data in an SOA. Providing a single environment rely on Informatica for maximizing
for both operational and analytical data integration, PowerCenter Real Time Edition enables return on data to drive their top
your team to accelerate development cycles and reduce IT costs. business imperatives. Worldwide,
over 4,630 enterprises depend on
Reduce Risk with Real-Time Data Available Even in Failure Conditions Informatica to fully leverage their
PowerCenter Real Time Edition ensures the integrity of real-time data even in failure information assets residing on-
conditions. You can avoid duplicate records when resolving partially completed processing. premise, in the Cloud and across
You can guarantee that messages are read, processed, and delivered only once and in social networks.
order, even in system failure scenarios. PowerCenter Real Time Edition reduces the risk of
inaccurate, inconsistent, or out-of-date data populating business systems and applications
and helps your IT organization maintain real-time, 24x7, mission-critical operations.

Increase Business Agility and Performance with Right-Time

Data Integration
With PowerCenter Real Time Edition, 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 Edition 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 Edition helps you improve
business performance.

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