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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

About the Author

Rahul Malewar is a data warehouse consultant, providing Business Intelligence and Data Analytical solutions to customers. He has worked on various Data Warehousing tools for 10 years, majorly on Informatica Power Center--various versions of Informatica Power Center, from version 8.1 to the latest 10.1.0. He has experience of working on multiple real-time projects in a couple of MNCs, utilizing the skills acquired from which, he has written this book. He has been running his own training center named Learn Well Technocraft (www.dw-learnwell.com) for seven years now, wherein training on more than 25 Data warehousing, Cloud Computing, and Data Analytical technologies is provided over classroom, corporate, and online means. He has also written a blog on data warehousing concepts. As of today, he has provided training to more than 1,700 candidates, ranging from freshers to professionals with 20 years of experience in Informatica.

Rahul has also worked on Informatica cloud and has implemented projects on it. Apart from this, he has also provided training on Informatica cloud to big organizations such as monster.com (US).

He is the Director of a software development firm named Gut Lernen Technocraft Pvt. Ltd., where they work on data warehousing and mobile-related projects.

He provides free assistance on Informatica installation-related and other technical issues, for which he can be contacted at [email protected].