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Data Quality Services

An Informatica Cloud Data Quality service analyzes the content and structure of your data and enhances the data according to your business requirements. Data Quality services in Informatica Cloud are web services that you access with SOAP web service calls. You can consume Data Quality services for cleansing, validating, and standardizing your data.
Use Data Quality services to perform data validation such as credit card checks, Social Security number validation, and email format validation. Data Quality services can standardize data such as company names, phone numbers, and personal IDs. Data Quality services can also parse names of different formats into separate fields.
When a Data Quality service receives a request, the web service validates the user and verifies that the user has a valid license for a Data Quality package. If the user is valid, the service processes the data in the SOAP request. The service returns results in the web service response. The web service updates Informatica Cloud with the name of web service, number of jobs, and number of rows that the user processed in the service.
You can consume Data Quality services from the following Informatica tools:
You can consume Data Quality services directly from within existing applications, including software as a service (SaaS) applications. You can perform Data Quality operations from any application capable of SOAP message interchange, including data integration tools such as Pentaho, Talend, or Ab Initio.
You can download a WSDL file for each Informatica Cloud Data Quality service. The WSDL describes the format for request and response messages that the web service uses to communicate to the web service consumer.
You can download a pre-built PowerCenter or PowerCenter Express mapplet for a Data Quality service. Each mapplet calls a Data Quality service from a Web Service Consumer transformation.