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Introducing Cloud Data Integration for PowerCenter (CDI-PC)

With Cloud Data Integration for PowerCenter (CDI-PC), you can create an on-premises domain that connects to a domain management service in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services℠. Store your data and run sessions and workflows within your on-premises domain and leverage the advantages of domain management that the Informatica cloud provides. You can create a CDI-PC domain or migrate your Informatica domain to CDI-PC.

The following image shows the components of CDI-PC:

The image shows the architecture of CDI-PC. The domain, repositories, clients, and Secure Agent machine represent the on-premises components, and the CDI-PC service represents the cloud component There is a firewall between the on-premises and cloud components.

CDI-PC includes the following components:

•CDI-PC domain. An on-premises domain with services and repositories. You can extract data from sources, transform the data according to business logic that you build in the client application, and load the transformed data into targets. Import sources and targets and run workflows to move or transform data.
•CDI-PC Client. Use the CDI-PC Client to create, run, and monitor jobs that you run in the domain.
•Administrator tool. Log in to the Administrator tool to create application services and manage the domain and services.
•Secure Agent. A lightweight program that you install on a Linux or Windows machine. The Secure Agent enables communication between the on-premises domain and Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
•CDI-PC service. The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services service to monitor domain status and initiate domain updates.

When you register a domain in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, you enable communication between the domain and the cloud. You can monitor the status of domains, nodes, and services.

You can schedule or manually initiate domain updates when they become available on the CDI-PC service page. An update job performs all tasks required to complete the update and start the domain after update. You can schedule an update at an appropriate date and time when you know there will be minimal impact. You can also manually initiate updates. After you initiate or schedule the update, there are no manual tasks required to apply the update. View the status of update jobs on the View Domain Update page.