This video provides an overview of Informatica Cloud.

In this video, you will learn about Informatica Cloud Architecture and Secure Agent. You will also be able to design an Agent architecture for your business and install the agent on your machine.

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Secure Agent Requirements

A Secure Agent is a lightweight program that runs all tasks that you configure in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and processes your company's data locally and securely. A Secure Agent must be running to run tasks. The following link will guide you through the prerequisites before you install a Secure Agent on your machine, such as the operating system that will support the Secure Agent, access to all remote directories and more. 

Windows  installation process

Linux installation process

Agent Installation and Ports Needed

Using the following links, understand how to download and install a Secure Agent, configure the proxy settings, configure login, and also uninstall the Secure Agent in Linux and Windows.

Windows

Linux

Secure Agent Logs and Architecture

While using Informatica Cloud Secure Agent, different types of log files can be found, such as session log, error log, success log, infaagent log, and tomcat log.

Click here to learn how to find the log files while using Informatica Cloud Secure Agent.

Log Files

Refer to the following links to learn more about the various log files:

HOW TO: Find the log files while using Informatica Cloud Secure Agent

HOW TO: Find Audit logs in IICS

FAQ: What is the use of asset logs in IICS? How to access it?

FAQ: What is the use of Security logs in IICS

FAQ: What are the search results of Asset logs in IICS?

Task Monitoring

IICS Task Monitoring explains how you can view and monitor jobs, imports, and exports that are running or have run in your organization.

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Use the synchronization task to synchronize data between a source and a target. For example, you can read sales leads from your sales database and write them into Salesforce. You can also use expressions to transform the data according to your business logic or use data filters to filter data before writing it to targets. 

You can use the database, flat file and salesforce source and target types in synchronization tasks.

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The replication task and options can be used to replicate data to a target. You can replicate data to back it up or perform offline reporting. You can replicate data in Salesforce objects or database tables to databases or flat files.

You can also configure a task to replicate all rows of a source object each time the task runs or to only replicate the rows that changed since the last time the task was run. You can use a replication task to create as well as reset target tables.

Replication Tasks

Learn how to configure connections between Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and Cloud and on-premise applications, platforms, databases, and flat files. It also lists the connection properties for all connectors that can be used with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.

It will guide you through Add on connectors, how to install them, connection configuration, connection properties and swagger file generation for REST V2 connectors. 

Current versions connections

A Cloud Mapping Designer is an easy-to-use, web-based interface for building mappings. Check out the links to explore more on the mapping designer, mapping templates, mappings tests, mapping maintenance, mapping revisions, and mappings tasks.

Cloud Mapping Designer Overview continued.

Check this video to identify business use cases for the cloud mapping designer, use the Cloud Mapping Designer to build a mapping, understand the transformations available to you and validate and test a mapping.

Know more about Pre and Post SQL commands by going through this video and know what are the benefits and business use cases where these attributes can be used.

A user is an individual Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services account that allows secure access to an organization. A user can perform tasks and access assets based on the roles that are assigned to the user.

You can assign roles directly to the user or to a group that the user is a member of. Refer to the following link to know more about user authentication, configure user details, creating user, assigning and un-assigning services, disabling, resetting and deleting a user or user groups.

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User Roles

A role is a collection of privileges that you can assign to users and groups. To ensure that every user can access assets and perform tasks in your organization, assign at least one role to each user or user group. A role defines the privileges for different types of assets and service features. Learn more about the role details page, roles that can be assigned to the user or user groups and custom roles that you create based on the needs of your organization.

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User Groups

A user group is a group of users in which all members can perform the same tasks and have the same access rights for different types of assets. Members of a group can perform tasks and access assets based on the roles that you assign to the group. Know more on how to get user group details, how to create a new user group, rename and delete them if need be.

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Organization Hierarchy license enables you to create one or more sub-organizations within your organization. Create sub-organizations to represent different business environments within your company. Learn more on how to add, remove disable or enable a sub-organization.

The section will also guide you on how to switch to a different organization, deny parent organization access to a sub-organization, the add on connectors in sub-organization and how to export and import assets in sub-organizations.

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You can create schedules to run tasks or taskflows at specified times or at regular intervals. You can also define a blackout period during which scheduled tasks or jobs do not run. Learn more on how to configure a blackout period, repeat frequency, time zones and schedules, and much more as you go through this link.

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The Data Integration Salesforce Connector Guide contains information about how to set up and use Salesforce Connector. The guide explains how business users can use the Salesforce Connector to read data from and write data to Salesforce.

Salesforce Overview Guide

SQL Server

The Microsoft SQL Server Connector Guide contains information about how to set up and use Microsoft SQL Server Connector.

The guide explains how business users can use Microsoft SQL Server Connector to read data from and write data to Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Click here to learn how to do mapping, replication and synchronization tasks with Microsoft SQL Server Connector.

Oracle

The Oracle Connector Guide contains information about how to set up and use Oracle Connector. The guide explains how you can use Oracle Connector to read data from and write data to Oracle databases. Learn how to do mapping, replication and synchronization tasks with Oracle connector.

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MySQL

The MySQL Connector Guide contains information about how to set up and use MySQL Connector. The guide explains how business users can use MySQL Connector to read data from and write data to MySQL databases. Learn how to do synchronization, mapping and replication tasks using MySQL connectors.

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A Data Sheet provides highlights of the key features and benefits of Informatica products.

Click here to learn more about IICS API Management.

Click here to learn more about IICS Application Management.

Click here to learn more about Informatica Cloud B2B Gateway.

Click here to learn how to Accelerate Your Digital Transformation With a Modern Cloud Data Integration Solution 

Here is a demo of data and application integration using intelligent APIs with Informatica’s iPaaS. It showcases an API administrator using IICS’s API Manager.

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Watch this video to get a product overview of Informatica Cloud Integration Hub and the key benefits for organizations as a fully managed service in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). 

Informatica Cloud Integration Hub Data Sheet: Increase the Governance and Efficiency of Data Integration With a Hosted Publish-Subscribe Data Hub

Go through the video to learn about the following:

• Creating an organization for each environment.
• Master the sub-org hierarchy as needed. 

Go through the video to learn about the following:

• Create appropriate user groups and users and roles.
• Assign appropriate roles to the users as per the business requirements.

Go through the video to learn about the following:

• Configure Two-Factor Authentication for security
• Create and maintain password generation rules that meet organizational requirements and standards

Go through the video to learn about the following:

• Create and manage connections to databases and external applications
• Manage security and privileges
  

Go through the video to learn about the following:

• Create and manage schedules; Schedule black-out periods
• Install bundles; delete bundle;  monitors bundle usage in the organization

Go through the video to learn about the following:

• Create and manage schedules; Schedule black-out periods.
• Install bundles; delete bundle;  monitors bundle usage in the organization

This video discusses how to monitor jobs in CDI.

This video discusses how to create mappings in Informatica Cloud Mapping Designer.

Go through the video to learn how to create a mapping task and to create a task flow to run multiple tasks together.

Learn how to use Mapping Designer to configure a source to target mappings, add expression transformations, and sort transformations for cleansing.