Informatica Powercenter is a widely used ETL tool to build the warehouses. It is most popular ETL tool ever since it released in 1993.The components of Informatica Powercenter will allow us to Extract the data, Tranform the data as per the business need and Load the data into warehouse.
As an ETL tool, main advantages of PowerCenter over other ETL tools lies in its robustness, as it can be used in both Windows and Unix based systems. PowerCenter can read from a variety of different sources and write to as many targets while transforming data in between.
The other advantage of PowerCenter when compared to other ETL tools is that it is a high performing yet very simple tool for developing, maintaining and administering.
Why is Informatica dominant?
Features like user-friendly and combined transformations make it stand apart from the competitors. It remains popular due to the unique features offered by Informatica.