Getting Started with Informatica Cloud Data Profiling

Make sure that you are using a compatible browser when you design your projects. Check the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Product Availability Matrix for operating systems, databases, and other systems that Data Profiling supports.

A runtime environment is the execution platform for running tasks. A runtime environment consists of one or more Secure Agents. A Secure Agent is a lightweight program that runs tasks and enables secure communication across the firewall between your organization and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. You must have at least one runtime environment in each organization so that users in the organization can run tasks.

Use a Secure Agent group to access data on-premises. A Secure Agent group contains one or more Secure Agents. The agents in a group run within your network or in a cloud computing services environment such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.

To create a Secure Agent group, download and install the Secure Agent. You can install one Secure Agent on each physical or virtual machine. Each agent that you install is added to its own group by default. Based on your license, you can add multiple agents to a group to balance workloads and improve scalability.

Before you can create a data profiling task, you need to create a connection. When you configure the connection, you specify the connector that enables the exchange of data between the profile and source object.

Create a project folder and folders to contain the assets that you need for your project. If you do not create any project or folder, data profiling saves the data profiling tasks in the Default project.