With Informatica BDM gaining pace and most of us are not very familiar with new Informatica version 10.0 architecture so thought of putting this in a blog.

Informatica Service Architecture & Clients

Informatica Domain: Its collection of nodes and services that define the Informatica environment. Administrator is a browser interface to control the Informatica domain. It includes services, folders, users, groups, privileges, roles, log management and other functions.

Application Services: It provides the functionalities of the Informatica Platform. Following are the application service examples:

• PowerCenter Repository Service: It manages the PowerCenter Repository, performs all metadata transactions between the repository database and repository clients.
• PowerCenter Integration Service: Runs PowerCenter workflows, schedules workflows, connects to the PowerCenter Repository, Workflow Monitor and Workflow Manager clients.
• Reporting Service: It’s an application service that runs the Data Analyzer application. It has prebuilt reports for PowerCenter repository, Metadata Manager reports, Data Profiling reports and other reports.
• PowerCenter Web Hub Service: Receives requests from web service clients and exposes PowerCenter workflows as Web enabled services.
• Model Repository Service: It manages the Model Repository. The Metadata Repository is a relational database that stores metadata for projects created in Informatica Analyst and Informatica Developer.
• Analyst Service: It runs Informatica Analyst web tool in the Informatica domain. The Analyst Service manages the connections between the service components and the users who log in to the Analyst tool.
• Data Integration Service: It performs data integration tasks for Informatica Analyst and Informatica Developer client. It also performs data integration tasks for external clients.
• Metadata Manager Service: It provides the tools for the management of technical and business metadata. The Metadata Manager application manages access to metadata in the Metadata Manager repository.
• Other Services:
• System Services: Single instance System Services created out of the box. The domain includes the Email Service, Resource Manager Service, Scheduler Service.
• Content Management Service: It manages the reference data. It provides the reference data to the DIS and to the Developer & Analyst tools.
• PowerExchange Listener Service: Manages the PowerExchange Listener.
• PowerExchange Logger Service: It manages the PowerExchnage Logger Service.
• SAP BW Service: Listens for RFC requests from SAP NetWeaver BI.