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Informatica PowerExchange for Netezza

On-demand Access to Enterprise DataInformatica PowerExchange for Netezza Performance Server is part of Informaticas extensive PowerExchange

family of universal data access and delivery products. By interfacing seamlessly with Informatica PowerCenter,

PowerExchange for Netezza Performance Server enables any organization to populate data marts and warehouses

of any sizein batch or in near real-timeor extract data from NPS databases and send it to any other

PowerExchange-supported target.

BENEFITS

Enables continuous integration

of business events into Netezza,

lowering resource use and

enhancing organizational agility

Provides reliable, once-only

delivery with unmatched

resilience to failure via tight

PowerCenter integration and

transactional Netezza access

Supports compliance initiatives

during development andexecution through strict

enforcement of Netezza security

constraints and data encryption

Lowers costs and improves time-

to-results by eliminating costly

manual coding and reducing

requirements for Netezza skills

PowerExchangefor Integrating Applications andData

Todays organizations view their Netezza-based systems as just one aspect of an enterprise-wide

data integration environment, which has resulted in demands for broader access to dataalong

with the high performance and resilience needed to support continuous, trickle-feed integration

strategies. But building Netezza integration solutions from the ground up is a considerable

challenge.

Coding custom integration logic requires Netezza domain expertise, and whenever integration

requirements include access to data managed by packaged applications, passed via message-

oriented middleware, or exposed as Web services, additional hard-to-find technical talent will be

neededincreasing cost and risk. As data volumes grow beyond the point where batch windows

can cope, more advanced solutions can be built on triggers, date stamps, or similar techniques

but using these methods is complex and can have unacceptable production impact. Add the

recurring costs needed to maintain this logicas the Netezza database structures change, as the

surrounding applications are enhanced, and as the supporting IT environment evolvesand the

drawbacks of this approach become clear.

PowerExchange for Netezza Performance Server overcomes these obstacles.

It lets PowerCenter directly read and write Netezza without depending on intermediate message

queues or staging tables. Data is delivered with the kind of reliability that can come only with an

integrated platform. Theres no code to develop, so integration interfaces can be developed faster

and more reliably, whether they require access to message-oriented middleware, mainframe,

midrange, or relational databases, service-oriented architecture and Web services, or packaged

applications. One family of products, using one set of skills, accesses them all.

The advantages of PowerExchange dont stop there. Each member of the PowerExchange family

automatically captures relevant metadata from its sources and targets and shares it with the restof the Informatica platform. Proposed changes can be assessed rapidly and implemented with

confidence, and the same metadata can help resolve questions of data lineage that often arise in

audit and compliance exercisesone more advantage of the Informatica data integration

platform.

Greater agility. Better results. PowerExchange. For Netezzaand your organization.

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PowerExchange for Netezza Key Features and Benefits

Event-driven Data Integration

with the Change Data Capture(CDC) Option

Business events such as hiring a new

employee or shipping a customer order

dont always wait for nightly windows, and

the PowerExchange family can play a key

role for organizations seeking to propagate

these events into any Netezza-based data

warehouse. Besides its ability to support

rapid development of Netezzaaware

workflows, PowerExchange for Netezza

Performance Server seamlessly integrates

with the rest of the Informatica platform,

allowing sophisticated cleansing and

transformation of data generated by any

PowerExchange-supported source.

For example, the PowerExchange CDC

Option, available for all major transactional

databases, is a high-performance, non-

invasive way to detect business events as

soon as they happen, filter them for

relevance, and deliver them to

PowerCenterin the proper sequence and

without drop-outs or duplicates. This rawevent data can be enriched by

PowerCenter with data from other

PowerExchange-supported sources, and

then trickle-fed into Netezza.

Of course, traditional batch loads into

Netezza are also supported when up-to-the-second data is not necessary. This

kind of event-based architecture requires

no code to be developedwhich lowers

costs, reduces risk, and speeds time to

valueand IT infrastructure cost can be

lowered by reducing data volumes and by

performing data transformation away from

production servers and the data

warehouse.

Codeless Development for

Fast, Error-f ree DataIntegration

PowerExchange for Netezza includes an

interface designed specifically for the

Netezza environment. It allows easy

access to Netezza sources and targets,

and interfaces seamlessly with Informatica

PowerCenter to enable the rapid

development of sophisticated data

integration scenarios. By teaming with

other components of the Informatica

platform, data quality can be enhanced,

complex industry-standard data formatscan be understood and created, and web

services can be accessed and exposed.

PowerExchangethe foundation of

Informaticas powerful data integration

platform.

Automated Capture of

Netezza Metadata

Informatica PowerExchange for Netezza

automatically captures all available

Netezza metadata and delivers it to the

Informatica repository, seamlessly

integrating it with metadata from other

PowerExchange data sources and targets

to support the entire data integration life

cycle. During development this metadata is

used to guide Netezza access and

conversion. As changes occurwhether in

Netezza or in the sources and targets

surrounding itthis metadata helps keep

maintenance costs down by enabling fast,

error-free impact assessment that is

unavailable with hand-coded integration

techniques.

Netezza Integration Suppor t

PowerExchange for Netezza Performance

Server supports ODBC read and write

access to Netezza.

About the Informat ica PowerExchange Fami ly

Informatica PowerExchange is a family of universal data access and delivery products from Informatica. It gives Informatica PowerCenter bi-directional

access to popular ERP and CRM systems, relational and non-relational databases, mainframe and midrange systems, message queuing systems, Web services,

and many other enterprise sources and targets. Seamless integration with PowerCenter and metadata-driven development support a drag-and-drop interface

that eliminates hand-built integration code, delivers fast and reliable data movement, and supports enterprise-wide initiatives for data quality, internal audit, andregulatory compliance. The PowerExchange CDC Option delivers trusted database updates through PowerCenter to any PowerExchange target, supporting

sophisticated right-time data integration strategies and batch-oriented techniques. PowerExchange truly is the foundation of any organizations data integration

strategy. For more information, please visit www.informatica.com/products/PowerExchange.

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