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Course Description:
This course covers Informatica from top to bottom in the core architecture of the product. The focus
of this class is “what is Informatica, and how does it work, and how do I work with it?” This class
will take the students through the architectural components, the designer, workflow manager,
workflow monitor, repository manager, and server configurations and setup. It will cover basic
concepts about mapping design, workflow design, and process monitoring. During the class the
students will learn about each of the transformation objects and what they are for, and how they
might be used to solve specific business problems.

Instructor:
Dan Linstedt

Audience Roles:
Administrator, Developer, Change Management

Course Duration:
4 Days, 32 hours of course-ware.

Class Delivery:
On-site, or public course at Genesee Academy offices

Lab Work:
Labs are only available on-site. The lab work on-site consists of 80% of the class with constant
hands-on for the tool utilization.

Agenda:
Day 1:
Introduction to Informatica
ETL versus ELT Architecture Introduction
Product Overview, Architectural Overview
Terminology Overview
Designer Overview
Workflow Manager Overview
Workflow Monitor Overview
Data Flow Diagram Process, Workflow Diagramming
Basic Data Warehousing Architecture & Principles
Best Practice Data Integration Rules To Live By

Mapping Designer Environment

Introduction to Sources and Targets
Building your first mapping
Building your first workflow and session
Trouble shooting connectivity issues (introductory)
Transformation Overview: All Transformations

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Workflow Manager and Objects

Full overview of the Workflow Manager
Workflow Objects (process objects)
Session Objects
Configuration Objects
Database Connectivity
Introduction to the debugger
Introduction to Worklets
Null Handling
Designer Best Practices

Day 2:
Workflow Manager and Monitor Environments
Web Service Configuration
Workflow Properties
Workflow Events
Workflow Parameters & Variables
Workflow Scheduling
Concurrent and Sequential Sessions
Links, Connectors and Email Task Objects
Introduction to Partition Points
Session Settings
“Bad” data files, and session logs
Worklets
Workflow Monitor
Debugger In-Depth

Day 3:
More Designer Principles
Sources, Targets
Pre & Post SQL
Expressions
Variables, Parameters, Variable Ports
Informatica Functions
Cache, Disk, and I/O functionality
Datatype conversions
Designer Features
Active versus Passive transformations
Common Informatica Transformation Objects
Filter
Router
Sorter
Sequencer

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Aggregator
Joiner
Day 4:
More Designer Principles
Lookups in Depth
Update Transformation
Normalizer
Rank
Maplets
Reusable Transformations

INSTRUCTOR’S BIO IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB SITE:

http://www.GeneseeAcademy.com/instructors.htm

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