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In the age of technological advancements happening almost every minute, upgrading a business is essential to survive competition, offering a customer experience beyond expectations while deploying fewer resources to derive value from any process or business. Platform upgrades, software upgrades, security upgrades, architectural enhancements, and so on are required to ensure stability, agility, and efficiency. […]

Every end product must meet and exceed customer expectations. For a successful delivery, it is not just about doing what matters, but also about how it is done by following and implementing the desired standards. This post outlines the best practices to consider with IDMC CDI ETL during the following phases. Development Operations  Development Best […]

Salesforce’s acquisition of Informatica is a big move and a smart one. It brings together the world’s #1 AI CRM with a top name in enterprise cloud data management. Together, they’re taking on a challenge every business faces — turning scattered, messy data into something clean, connected, and ready to power AI. What’s Next for […]

Informatica Power Center professionals transitioning to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) Cloud Data Integration (CDI) will find both exciting opportunities and new challenges. While core data integration principles remain, IICS’s cloud-native architecture requires a shift in mindset. This article outlines key differences, migration strategies, and best practices for a smooth transition. Core Differences Between Power […]

In Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), In-Out and Input Parameters provide flexibility in managing dynamic values for your mappings. This allows you to avoid hard-coding values directly into the mapping and instead configure them externally through parameter files, ensuring ease of maintenance, especially in production environments. Below, we’ll walk through the concepts and how to […]

Metadata Extraction: IDMC vs. PowerCenter When we talk about metadata extraction, IDMC (Intelligent Data Management Cloud) can be trickier than PowerCenter. Let’s see why. In PowerCenter, all metadata is stored in a local database. This setup lets us use SQL queries to get data quickly and easily. It’s simple and efficient. In contrast, IDMC relies […]

In the PC-IDMC conversion process, it can be challenging to gather detailed information about workflows. Specifically, we often need to determine: The number of transformations used in each mapping. The number of sessions utilized within the workflow. Whether any parameters or variables are being employed in the mappings. The count of reusable versus non-reusable sessions […]

Snowflake’s Stream Stream Stream is a CHANGE DATA CAPTURE methodology in Snowflake; it records the DML changes made to tables, including (Insert/Update/delete). When a stream is created for a table, it will create a pair of hidden columns to track the metadata.   create or replace stream s_emp on table emp append_only=false;   I have […]

Let’s talk about data governance in banking and financial services, one area I have loved working in and in various areas of it … where data isn’t just data, numbers aren’t just numbers … They’re sacred artifacts that need to be protected, documented, and, of course, regulated within an inch of their lives. It’s not […]

SNOWFLAKE’S SNOWPIPE Snow pipe: snow pipe is a one of the data loading strategies in snowflake , for continuous data loading, will create a snow pipe to load the data from any data source or storage or any cloud to snowflake tables, its an event trigger ideology whenever a file came to the source immediately […]

On the Road to Vegas! We have our passes and are ready to hit the road for Informatica World 2024! This year’s conference is hosted in the heart of Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, May 20-23. Informatica World is an annual event that brings together over 2,000 experts to network, collaborate, and […]

  Macros in IICS   Informatica IICS: An expression macro is a useful technique for creating complex or repeating expressions in mappings. This makes it possible to perform computations over various fields or constants. creating a collection of related expressions so that the same computation can be done on several input fields. Steps to Use […]