What is Informatica- Chapter 1

What is Informatica?

Informatica is a Software development company, which offers data integration products. It offers products for ETL, data masking, data Quality, data replica, data virtualization, master data management, etc.

Informatica Powercenter ETL/Data Integration tool is a most widely used tool and in the common term when we say Informatica, it refers to the Informatica PowerCenter tool for ETL.

Informatica Powercenter is used for Data integration. It offers the capability to connect & fetch data from different heterogeneous source and processing of data.

For example, you can connect to an SQL Server Database and Oracle Database both and can integrate the data into a third system.

The latest version of Informatica PowerCenter available is 9.6.0. The different editions for the PowerCenter are

• Standard edition
• Advanced edition
• Premium edition

The popular clients using Informatica Powercenter as a data integration tool are U.S Air Force, Allianz, Fannie Mae, ING, Samsung, etc. The popular tools available in the market in competition to Informatica are IBM Datastage, Oracle OWB, Microsoft SSIS and Ab Initio.

Typical use cases for Informatica can be

• An organization migrating from existing legacy system like mainframe to a new database system. So the migration of its existing data into a system can be performed.
• Enterprises setting up their Data Warehouse would require an ETL tool to move data from the Production system to Warehouse.
• Integration of data from various heterogeneous systems like multiple databases and file-based systems can be done using Informatica.
• Informatica can be used as a data cleansing tool.

Informatica is better than its competitors as it offers a wide range of product editions. So the user can opt for a specific edition based upon the requirement. Informatica is constantly featured as Data Integration product leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant listing.

Informatica is available for all the popular platforms. It offers cloud-based services so that with minimal setup an industry can use this tool. Informatica offers real-time data integration, Web services integration, Business to business data integration (B2B), Big data edition, Master Data Management and connectors for social media and Salesforce. Forbes has quoted Informatica as the next Microsoft, this itself reflects the market share Informatica is having over its competitors.

Why do we need Informatica?

Informatica comes to the picture wherever we have a data system available and at the backend we want to perform certain operations on the data. It can be like cleaning up of data, modifying the data, etc. based on certain set of rules or simply loading of bulk data from one system to another.

Informatica offers a rich set of features like operations at row level on data, integration of data from multiple structured, semi-structured or unstructured systems, scheduling of data operation. It also has the feature of metadata, so the information about the process and data operations are also preserved.

Basic of React Native

React Native is a framework for developing native applications using JavaScript. React Native accumulates native app components that make it possible for you to build native mobile applications. React and React Native, both the frameworks are very similar, as React Native uses a set of mobile-tailored components carried by the React package. Some of those components are Text, Navigator, TextInput, ScrollView, View along with native iOS/Android UI components.

React Native: Business advantages

• React Native comes with Native components and Native Modules that helps to improve performance, unlike PhoneGap, Cordova and other cross-platform frameworks. React Native extracts some of the code components with native API’s.
• React Native has all the advantages that React.js is offering you simply focuses on a better UI.
• There is no more requirement to build the same application for iOS and Android, separately as React Native lets you reuse the common logic layer.
• React Native’s component-based structure let the programmers build apps with a more agile, web-style approach than hybrid frameworks.
• If you have a basic understanding about JavaScript, React Native is so easy to pick-up as it allows most front-end web developers to be a mobile developer. All you need to know is some native UI elements, JavaScript, platform APIs and platform-specific design pattern and you’re set.
• There is no more need to rebuild your existing app. All you are required to do is add React Native UI components into your existing app’s code, without having to rewrite it.
• Native app development usually means slower time to deployment, inefficiency and less developer productivity. React Native is all about responsiveness, bringing high speed and agility of web app development along with the best user experience to the hybrid space to provide your users with a native app experience.

How is ReactJs different from AngularJS

React vs Angular

React vs Angular
TOPIC	REACT	ANGULAR
1. ARCHITECTURE	Only the View of MVC	Complete MVC
2. RENDERING	Server-side rendering	Client-side rendering
3. DOM	Uses virtual DOM	Uses real DOM
4. DATA BINDING	One-way data binding	Two-way data binding
5. DEBUGGING	Compile time debugging	Runtime debugging
6. AUTHOR	Facebook	Google

ReactJS basically is an open-source JavaScript library which is used for building user interfaces specifically for single page applications.

It's used for handling view layer for web and mobile apps. React also allows us to create reusable UI components.

It is fast, responsive, modular, we can create reusable files. It is scalable and flexible. Many more advantages but we will jump right into some basic concepts. DOM(Document Object Model) is the UI components, like elements, attributes.

React allows developers to create large web applications which can change data, without reloading the page. The main purpose of React is to be fast, scalable, and simple.

the React Framework. React (also known as React.js orReactJs) is a powerful JavaScript library that uses server-side rendering (SSR) with a unique twist—one that allows it to provide a flexible, performance-oriented, componentized solution for the “V” in MVC (Model View Controller).