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For cloud users seeking powerful integrations without complex coding, Process Designer empowers technical users, like automation designers, to build and automate processes visually. This user-friendly platform within Informatica iPaaS (or other endpoints) features drag-and-drop tools and pre-built wizards to streamline process creation.
Process Designer ensures clear documentation and seamless integration with existing applications, maximizing efficiency and collaboration. With real-time execution and cloud scalability, Process Designer delivers optimized data management and overall operational efficiency.
This guide outlines the steps to create a service connector that allows your development environment to access the mathematical functionalities (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) offered by the DNEOnline calculator web service.
A process object is a complex data structure containing simple data types. It's used to manage data exchanged with a service. This section guides you through creating and using a process object as input within a process.
A Guide is an interactive tool that directs users through a series of steps. It can display information, collect input, or confirm data. Each step within a Guide can interact with your application to retrieve or store data. Guides are adaptable to various platforms, including mobile devices, PCs, and Macs. This section covers Guide creation, execution, and integration with both cloud and on-premises applications using Guide Designer.
Using the low-code/no-code design interface you can stitch together various processes and orchestrate an entire integration workflow, and create automations. In this section, we will demonstrate how to build a complex orchestration scenario using the various tasks available in Taskflows. We will explore several orchestration patterns, including assignment, decision, parallel execution, looping, and parameterization.
You can create various third-party integrations using Connectors in CAI. In this section, we will explain how to use the Marketo v3 connector to connect to Marketo. We will also demonstrate how to create a service connector using API documentation provided through Swagger and how to build a CAI process that integrates these service connections into a unified workflow, using the Marketo example.
In this section, we will walk you through creating asynchronous patterns with CAI, using an Order Processing use-case as an example.
In this section, we will guide you through creating a messaging service process. You will learn how to use an AMQP connection to read events and messages from a queue, create a process object to structure this information, and then write to another queue on the same broker.
In this section, we will go over how to process a list using subprocesses. We will create a service connector manually and retrieve a list of makes and models of vehicles, then use a sub-process to iterate over makes and models. We will also show the use of the loop construct to go over the list.
Complex hand-coding tools are slowing down GenAI development. They require specialized skills, hinder scalability, and drive up costs. Maintaining these custom-built apps adds another layer of complexity. Informatica Cloud Application Integration (iPaaS) empowers businesses to break free from these limitations. Our user-friendly, low-code/no-code GenAI app development capabilities eliminate the need for extensive coding, making GenAI development accessible to a wider range of users.
Key Benefits of iPaaS for Streamlined GenAI Development:
- Intuitive Drag-and-Drop Interface: Effortlessly build GenAI applications at scale, facilitating rapid prototyping and deployment.
- Seamless AI/ML Integration: Out-of-the-box large language model (LLM) connectors simplify integrating any AI or machine learning model.
- Enhanced Reusability: Modernize existing app/API integrations and seamlessly incorporate them into your GenAI workflows.
- Streamlined Workflow Orchestration: Easily orchestrate LLM calls and RAG pipelines based on user needs.
- Expanded Use Cases: iPaaS supports popular GenAI applications like prompt engineering, RAG, AI agents, and fine-tuning.
Download sample guides that demonstrate practical Salesforce workflows. These guides are designed for users with existing Salesforce knowledge.
Process Designer empowers you to bridge the gap between applications and services, regardless of location. It seamlessly connects with data integration tools, on-premise systems secured behind your firewall via APIs, and even cloud-based services – as long as they offer an API for interaction.
For tailored integrations, you can create two types of service connectors: service connectors and data access service connectors.
You can create a Data Access Service (DAS) connector on a Secure Agent to access data directly from a database. In this section, we go into the details of how the DAS Connector can be used.
Streamline database integration across your IT infrastructure with our robust JDBC connector. This solution utilizes the industry-standard JDBC Specification 3.0 Java API and Type 4 Database Protocol Driver, ensuring seamless connections to a wide range of popular database platforms, including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
The File Connector enables connectivity between CAI and file systems, allowing you to monitor for new files, move files, read and write content, and manage processed files. The video will also demonstrate how to create a process triggered by a source event, such as a delimited content file.
Salesforce is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution for sales teams to manage contacts and sales activities. Salesforce provides a Streaming API that supports event streaming using push technology. With the Streaming API, you can subscribe to Salesforce platform events, PushTopic queries, and change events. Additionally, you can publish messages to Salesforce platform events in near real-time.
The Salesforce Connector enables secure interactions with Salesforce objects. It allows you to subscribe to custom Salesforce platform events, PushTopic queries, and change events, as well as publish messages to custom Salesforce platform events.
The AMQP Connector simplifies data exchange across on-premise and cloud applications. Connect to AMQP brokers, ensure reliable messaging, and implement efficient publish/subscribe patterns. This connector even expands integrations beyond AMQP with its flexible framework.
Informatica iPaaS's Email Connector empowers you to automate email notifications within your workflows. This streamlines communication and fosters better customer experiences.
- Integrate: Easily integrate email functionalities into your existing processes.
- Automate: Set up automated email notifications for key events, like order updates.
- Deliver Securely: Leverage industry-standard security protocols (SMTP, TLS/SSL) for secure email transmission.
The Kafka Connector simplifies the integration of real-time data streams from Apache Kafka. By enabling the use of Kafka topics directly within data mappings (Avro or JSON format), the connector streamlines data processing workflows. With advanced mode, you can leverage powerful transformations for complex data manipulation tasks, including handling hierarchical data structures.
Additionally, the connector offers deployment flexibility by supporting various cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure for the advanced cluster.
Amazon SQS provides a highly reliable distributed queueing solution for asynchronous communication between application components. Messages (text, JSON) up to 256 KB are securely stored within queues, guaranteeing delivery even during temporary system outages.
- Improved Agility: Decouple services for independent development and deployment cycles.
- Enhanced Scalability: Handle workload fluctuations without performance impact.
- Flexible & Integrated: Supports various formats and integrates with S3 (Extended Client Library for Java).
Connecting to Azure services in Informatica CAI depends on which service you use:
- Azure Service Bus: Use the built-in AMQP connector for easy integration.
- Azure Event Hub: Use the Kafka connector to avoid re-reading messages on restarts.
Click on Learn More to download the document that has details on setting things up for both services with CAI's Process Server.
The RabbitMQ Connector simplifies application integration with RabbitMQ, a high-performance message broker. It leverages AMQP for secure message exchange. Use RabbitMQ Connector to configure a RabbitMQ connection, a RabbitMQ producer, and a RabbitMQ consumer. You can also listen for, read and write messages on a particular queue.
Error Handling settings provide a comprehensive approach to managing errors within data integration sessions. You can determine the session's behavior upon encountering pre-session command errors, stored procedure errors, or reaching a pre-determined error threshold. This granular control optimizes data processing efficiency and ensures data integrity, fostering robust and reliable integration.
CAI offers various methods for deploying processes. In this section, we will cover the following four deployment options:
- Invoking processes deployed to the Cloud Server
- Invoking processes deployed to the Secure Agent
- Invoking processes deployed to Secure Agent Groups
- Invoking processes using HTTP verbs
The video here guides you through enabling OAuth2 authentication for your Cloud Application Integration Process exposed as an API. Learn how to configure the API to solely accept HTTP authorization requests from the API Gateway.
The guide details how to configure authentication for your managed APIs that invoke Cloud Application Integration processes with basic authentication. It outlines supported authentication methods like Basic, OAuth 2.0, and JWT, and clarifies processes where configuration isn't possible.
A developer often tests their process design iteratively using various inputs to ensure its accuracy. In this section, we'll explore how a developer can perform these tests without leaving CAI. You will learn how to define inputs for a CAI process, persist them, and use them as Test/Test Suite to conduct unit testing.
In this section, we will see how we can restart a process from the process listing page in the CAI Console.
