1. PowerMart of Informatica
발표자 : 김수경(992COG05)
발표일 : March 27th , 2000

2. contents Informatica 소개 PowerMart 특징 PowerMart 주요 기능 PowerMart의 장점

3. Informatica 소개 Cofounder : Dhillon and Nesamoney History :
1993, in a small spare bedroom
1994, introducing “Open Bridge”
1996, releasing “PowerMart” after much fine-tuning and $2.5 million in venture funding
1999, 362 employees
Major clients: Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase,etc.
Location: Palo Alto, California
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4. PowerMart 특징
An integrated suite of software products building and managing line-of-business data marts and analytic applications.
PowerMart Designer
Source Analyzer
Warehouse Designer
Mapping Designer
Transformation Developer
PowerMart Repository
PowerMart Repository Manager
PowerMart Server Manager
PowerMart Server
PowerMart Designer- a powerful, multi-faced tool for defining mappings and transformations;
PowerMart Repository - an open metadata store for definitions about mappings, transformations and other data mart details;
PowerMart Repository Manager - a facility for managing user activities and metadata storage in the repository;
PowerMart Server Manager - an administrative interface to the central PowerMart warehouse engine, the PowerMart Server, for configuring data marts and scheduling extract/transform/load sessions;
PowerMart Server - a pipelined, multi-threaded server engine that is able to overlap data extraction, transformation and loading, providing scalability through the SPP architecture

5. PowerMart 주요 기능 Scalable pipeline processing(SPP)
production deployment automation
Flat file acceleration
Business component framework(BCF)
Advanced session management
Multi-level security
Fault-tolerant recovery
Session creation
New browser functionality
Scalable Pipeline Processing PowerMart gives users the option of combining disk staging with in-memory server-side caching to fully leverage system resources and achieve peak performance during any stage of data processing.
Production deployment automation
A "Deploy Folder" wizard guides developers through a step-by-step process for moving folders from development to production. It automatically handles dependency issues such as database connections, FTP connections, log file directories, etc. - even across operating system platforms. Underlying technology helps developers connect to more than one repository and share objects between Development, Test, and Production repositories to speed up the deployment process.
Flat file acceleration
A new FTP integration feature helps users set up FTP parameters for flat files. These can be staged before the transformation process or streamed through the transformation engine to enhance remote file processing.
Business Component Framework (BCF) Delivering enterprise-class extensibility to PowerCenter users, the Business Component Framework allows customers, partners and other complementary software providers to create source-extraction mapping templates that make it easier and faster to include ERP and analytic applications as part of an enterprise decision support solution.
Advanced session management
To help administrators maintain operational efficiency, PowerMart 4.6 permits session re-use across multiple source files and automatic target table truncation prior to loading. It also supports session log file archival with date and time stamps, along with administration of notifications of session statistics.
Multi-level security
In addition to standard group- and user-level security techniques, PowerMart 4.6 now lets administrators set up object-level security on objects such as repositories, folders and mappings; operational-level security such as read, write and execute permissions on objects; and stop-start permissions on servers.
Fault-tolerant recovery
In the event a hardware or power failure occurs during a load session, a 'Perform Recovery' feature enables incremental load and recovery once the system is up again. This helps administrators recover from critical failures within a limited timeframe.
Session creation
A simplified session wizard with "Beginner" and "Advanced" options walks novices and experienced users step-by-step through creating a transformation session.
New browser functionality
Ordering and sorting functionality in the Repository Manager lets users create customized views of metadata relationships and dependencies. Also, a new Transformation Browser lets users view external transformations as an aid to importing them into the Designer.

6. Platform: Informatica's products run on Windows 95/NT and UNIX and support IBM DB2, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, IMS, VSAM, ODBC, flat file and other operational sources.

7. PowerMart 장점
Delivering an open, scalable solution that addresses the complete life cycle for data mart and anlytic development, production, and ongoing management.
Able to source large volumes of fast changing data from multiple platforms, handle complex transformations, and support high-speed loads.
Designing easily complex source to target mapping based on GUI by data warehouse administrators.

8. Executing and Maintaining automatically by PowerMart’s powerful Server.
Component-based architecture
Sharing/reuse capabilities
compatible with both UNIX and NT allowing the company to leverage its existing hardware investments
Retail price: $ 85,000

9. PowerMart의 개선점
PowerMart currently has some restrictions handling unstructured text-file data sources.
Its source control could be more efficient, making it easier to move repository changes across unconnected networks
PowerMart could improve its flexibility with global variables.

10. Although PowerMart captures meta data throughout the extraction and transformation phases, it does not yet have the capability to network together multiple data marts to form an enterprise view of data.
Documentation was not addressing the transition thoroughly. Performance tuning was also an issue in the early stages of the project.
Speed can always be improved.