What is Informatica Powercenter?
PowerCenter Enterprise forms the foundation for all your data and enterprise integration initiatives—including data governance, data migration, and enterprise data warehousing—setting the standard for high-performance enterprise data integration and quality software. It scales to support large volumes of disparate data sources and meets demands for security and performance.

http://www.informatica.com/us/products/data-integration/enterprise/powercenter

Client Applications:
Informatica client applications are desktop tools used to create transformations, manage metadata, execute ETL processes and monitor them.



Designer – Tool for creating ETL mappings.
Workflow Manager – Tool to create and start workflows (sequences of mappings)
Workflow Monitor – Tool to monitor the workflows
Repository Manager – Tool to manage source/targets connections, folders, objects, users, etc.
Administrator console – Tool to perform domain and repository service tasks (configure services, nodes, perform backups, etc.)

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