Informatica Power Center Course Content

Section: 1

Some basic information about the course before you start

1. Welcome and Thank you!!

Section: 2
Data Warehouse Concepts: Back to Basics

2. Why do we need a Data Warehouse?

3. What is a Data Warehouse?
4. What is Business Intelligence?
5. What is Business Intelligence?
6. The Complete Master Data Warehouse Concepts Course

Section: 3

Data Warehouse Architectures

7. Enterprise Architecture or Centralized Architecture

8. Multi Tired Data Warehouse Architecture
9. Components of a Data Warehouse Architecture
10. Purpose of Staging Area in a Data Warehouse Architecture
11. Purpose of Staging Area in a Data Warehouse Architecture - part 2

Data Mart

19. What is a Data Mart?

20. Fundamental Difference between DWH and DM

Section: 4
Dimensional Modeling

21. What is Dimensional Modeling?

22. What is a Dimension?
23. What is a Fact?
24. What is a Surrogate key?
25. Star Schema
26. Snow flake Schema
27. SnowFlake Vs Start Schema
28. Conformed Dimension
29. Junk Dimension
 30. Degenerate Dimension
31. Slowly Changing Dimensions - Intro and Example
32. Slowly Changing Dimensions - Type 1, 2 and 3
33. Slowly Changing Dimensions - Summary

Section: 5
Informatica 10 - Pre-Requisites to start the Hands on

34. Informatica 10 - Repository Configuration and Folder Creation

35. Understanding of the basic file directory structure

Section: 6

Informatica 10 - Client Tools

1. Client Tools and Components

2. Setting up the Database Connection at Mapping Designer and Workflow Manager
3. Let's start with the Mapping Designer
4. Mapping Designer - Finding Object Dependencies
5. The Complete Cycle - Lets build the first Mapping, Session and the Workflow
6. Components of Workflow Manager
7. Workflow Monitor

Section: 7
Introduction to Transformations

1. Transformations Overview

2. Different Categories of Transformations

3. Active Transformations

4. Passive Transformations

5. Connected and Unconnected Transformations

6. Multi Group Transformations

7. Restricted Process Transformations

8. Data Flow Rules

Section: 8
Data Types in Informatica
 1. Power Center's Native Data Types and Data Type Conversion

2. Different Types of Functions

3. Best way to get around Functions

4. Different Types of Ports

Section: 9

Transformations

1. Source Qualifier Transformation

2. Expression Transformation
3. Mapping Parameters and Variables
4. Filter Transformation
5. Router Transformation
6. Differences between Filter and Router
7. Sequence Generator Transformation
8. Cache
9. Sorter Transformation
10. Aggregator Transformation
11. Rank Transformation
12. Joiner Transformation
13. Lookup Transformation
14. Connected Lookup
15. Unconnected Lookup
16. Flat File as Look Up Source
17. How to create and use Active Lookup Transformation
18. Lookup Cache
19. Persistent Lookup Cache
20. Reusable Lookup Transformation with Persistent Cache
21. Update Stratergy
22. Transaction Control Transformation
23. Union Transformation
24. Normalizer Transformation
25. Stored Procedure Transformation
26. XML Transformation
27. SQL Transformation
28. How to use the Debugger?
29. Workflow Manger
30. Load Manager and DTM Process
31. Components of Workflow Manager
32. Sessions
33. Event Wait and Event Raise
34. Timer Task
35. Control Task
36. Email Task
37. Command Task
38. Decision Task
39. Workflow Variables and Assignment Task
40. Schedulers
41. Workflow Monitor & Repository Manager for Log Information
42. Different Repository Manager Activities