Welcome to Informatica Cloud
Informatica Cloud is an on-demand subscription service that provides a complete platform for cloud integration and data management. Informatica Cloud provides the ability to configure connections, create users, and create, run, schedule, and monitor tasks.
You can use the following Informatica Cloud tasks to integrate data:
- •Contact Validation. Use to validate and correct postal address data, and add geocode information to postal address data. You can also validate email addresses and check phone numbers against the Do Not Call Registry.
- •Data Assessment. Use to measure and monitor the quality of data in the Accounts, Contacts, Leads, and Opportunities Salesforce CRM objects. You can use Data Assessment tasks to measure field completeness, field conformance, record duplication, and address validity.
- •Data Masking. Use data masking to replace source data in sensitive columns with realistic test data for non-production environments. Data masking rules define the logic to replace the sensitive data. Assign data masking rules to the columns you need to mask.
- •Data Replication. Use to replicate data from Salesforce or database sources to database or file targets. You might replicate data to archive the data, perform offline reporting, or consolidate and manage data.
- •Data Synchronization. Use to load data and integrate applications, databases, and files. Includes add-on functionality such as mapplets.
- •Mapping Configuration. Use to process data based on the data flow logic defined in a mapping or integration template.
- •PowerCenter. Use to import a PowerCenter workflow and run it as an Informatica Cloud PowerCenter task.
Licenses determine the Informatica Cloud subscription level for the organization and provide access to Informatica Cloud integration tasks, features, connectors, and bundles. Some of the features and functionality that we describe in this document might not be available to your organization due to licensing.
Informatica Cloud runs on the Informatica Cloud hosting facility which stores all task and organization information. Informatica Cloud agents are programs that run the tasks that you configure within Informatica Cloud. The Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent runs within the Informatica Cloud hosting facility. The Informatica Cloud Secure Agent runs within your network. To use an Informatica Cloud Secure Agent, you must install the agent on your network.
Before you can use Informatica Cloud to run data integration tasks, you need to create a connection. When you configure the connection, you specify the runtime environment, which contains the agent. You also specify the connector that enables the exchange of data between Informatica Cloud and the source and target objects. For example, if you want to create a task that uses Salesforce data, you create a Salesforce connection. The Salesforce connection uses the Salesforce connector that enables the exchange of data between Salesforce and Informatica Cloud.
Note: Licenses determine the Informatica Cloud subscription level for the organization and provide access to Informatica Cloud integration tasks, features, connectors, and bundles. Some of the features and functionality that we describe in this document might not be available to your organization due to licensing.