Informatica PowerCenter 6 and PowerCenterRT

The Informatica PowerCenter 6 family is a suite of products that provides a data integration and data movement solution that scales from a single departmental data mart right up to a distributed multi-warehouse enterprise-wide system. Notice that we have not described it as an ETL (extract, transform and load) tool. This is because, although it certainly does all of those things, its support for near real-time data movement and connectivity to real-time, trickle-fed data from WebSphere MQ and Tibco Rendezvous, plus the zero latency engine in Informatica PowerCenterRT, means that it can equally be used for application integration purposes, as well as to support business activity monitoring and corporate performance management. The newly available PowerConnect SDK allows the development of further custom connectors for batch and real-time data sources and targets. Since we do not believe that ETL is associated with areas such as these we feel that it would inappropriate to describe the PowerCenter family in this way, since it would be limiting its potential use.

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