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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By: Rahul Malewar

Overview of this book

Informatica PowerCenter is an industry-leading ETL tool, known for its accelerated data extraction, transformation, and data management strategies. This book will be your quick guide to exploring Informatica PowerCenter’s powerful features such as working on sources, targets, transformations, performance optimization, scheduling, deploying for processing, and managing your data at speed. First, you’ll learn how to install and configure tools. You will learn to implement various data warehouse and ETL concepts, and use PowerCenter 10.x components to build mappings, tasks, workflows, and so on. You will come across features such as transformations, SCD, XML processing, partitioning, constraint-based loading, Incremental aggregation, and many more. Moreover, you’ll also learn to deliver powerful visualizations for data profiling using the advanced monitoring dashboard functionality offered by the new version. Using data transformation technique, performance tuning, and the many new advanced features, this book will help you understand and process data for training or production purposes. The step-by-step approach and adoption of real-time scenarios will guide you through effectively accessing all core functionalities offered by Informatica PowerCenter version 10.x.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Getting the graphical interface ready- client installation


In this section, we will discuss the installation of the client tools.

As with the installation of the server, you will need to locate the installable by navigating to D:\1010_Client_Installer_winem-64t | Client | Install. In some cases, the filename can be install.exe, as shown in the following screenshot:

Double-click on install to initiate the client installation process for the client tools.

Perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Install Informatica 10.1.0 Clients or Upgrade to Informatica 10.1.0 Clients option as shown in the following screenshot. Select the Install Informatica 10.1.0 Clients installation type if you are doing a fresh installation, or select Upgrade to Informatica 10.1.0 Clients to upgrade to the latest version:
  1. Click on Next.

  1. Please check the installation prerequisites for the PowerCenter client tool as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Verify the details, and click on Next.
  2. On the Application Client Selection screen, select Informatica Developer and PowerCenter Client as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Next:
  1. Enter the installation directory. You can select the same installation directory where you installed the server. Please make sure you have sufficient space in the directory. Click on Next:
  1. Cross-check the pre-installation summary, and click on Install to start the client installation process, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. It will take a few minutes to complete the installation based on your system configuration.

  1. Once the installation process is complete, you will get the Post-Installation Summary screen. Check the summary, in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on Done to finish the client installation process.

With this, the installation of the server and client is complete. You will be able to see the newly installed programs in your Start menu on Windows, as shown in the following screenshot: