Enterprise Data Preparation Service Overview
Enterprise Data Preparation requires the Enterprise Data Preparation Service to complete operations. The Enterprise Data Preparation Service is an application service that runs the Enterprise Data Preparation application in the Informatica domain.
The Enterprise Data Preparation application allows data analysts to create data preparation projects. Each step of the data preparation project is stored in a recipe that is translated into a mapping for execution on the Informatica platform.
When an analyst uploads data, the Enterprise Data Preparation Service connects to the HDFS system in the Hadoop cluster to temporarily stage the data. When an analyst previews data, the Enterprise Data Preparation Service connects to the Hadoop cluster to read from the Hive table.
You can create the Enterprise Data Preparation Service when you install Enterprise Data Preparation, or you can use the Administrator tool to create the service after installation.