Overview
Review the various styles of setting up environments in IDMC, using Organizations, Sub-Organizations, and Additional Organizations.
Pre-Requisites
Parent Production Organization provisioned, and access verified with at least one customer-side administrator.
This engagement provides advisory services only, offering guidance without direct implementation or technical troubleshooting. For technical issues with product, please reach out to Global Customer Support. For assistance with implementation, you may want to consider Informatica Professional Services.
Self-Service Resources
This webinar is intended for administrators, devOps, and developers. The webinar navigates into the comprehensive capabilities and nuances provided by the Assurance Service. This service is designed to empower you in maintaining and effectively managing your IICS /IDMC Environment, with a specific focus on Cloud Data Integration (CDI), Cloud Application Integration (CAI), and Master Data Management (MDM SaaS) offerings. The session explores how the Assurance service addresses various challenges encountered across different stages of the cloud life cycle. Our discussions will revolve around enhancing observability, enabling automation, and fostering agility in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The key use cases to be covered include, however, are not limited to streamlined asset deployment, comprehensive asset and metadata management, cloud upgrade readiness assessment, efficient asset change management tracking, on-demand health assessments for performance optimizations, task anomaly detection for proactive issue resolution, and tools tailored to facilitate PowerCenter (PC) to cloud modernization initiatives. By the end of the webinar, you will uncover the transformative impact of leveraging the Assurance Service to mitigate risks, reduce costs, and enhance visibility within your organization's cloud environment.
The Cloud Assurance Pack provides a functionality for users to perform a "Check In" action. This action facilitates the submission of assets, along with any dependent assets, into the designated global Git repository maintained by the relevant source or target organization.
The deployment flow allows users to deploy saved deployment flows to multiple target Informatica Cloud organizations.
The Deployment feature enables customers to move assets from one organization to another or setup a new organization with assets from different organizations easily, with all the dependencies and additional post-deployment checks.
The Cloud Assurance Pack allows each user to review the deployment flow. By following this method, users can verify that the deployment they are carrying out follows a review process, ensuring an error-free deployment.
The Upgrade Analysis is one of the key features of the Cloud Assurance Pack that will help with the upgrade when there is a major or standard IDMC release and identify the impact of the upgrade on the user's organization. Upgrade Analysis helps users identify the assets that are impacted due to the upgrade, thus helping users form a regression test suite that they can use effectively to test for in an Informatica Cloud Pre-Release Organization environment.
The Cloud Assurance Pack empowers users to conduct cross-organizational comparisons of assets. The comparison process utilizes the logged-in organization, also known as the Source Organization or Current Organization, as the baseline. Users have the flexibility to compare these assets against any other organization that has been configured within the Cloud Assurance Pack.
The Cloud Assurance Pack allows users to compare the properties of one Secure Agent to another within the same organization or in a different organization by using Compare Agents functionality from the maintenance page.
Mapping task comparison offers a mechanism for comparative analysis of two mapping tasks, facilitated within a single organization or across distinct organizations. The comparison of mapping tasks offers significant benefits in various scenarios. It is particularly valuable when seeking to identify discrepancies between different versions of mappings and mapping tasks. This capability caters to both proactive and diagnostic use cases.
The Cloud Assurance Pack Log Analyzer is designed to empower all customers with proactive troubleshooting capabilities and enhanced productivity. This functionality is achieved through the Cloud Assurance Pack Log Analyzer, which allows users to conduct in-depth analysis of log files. The user interface offers a visually intuitive layout, making critical statistics and summaries easy to find and understand. The Log Analyzer offers comprehensive log analysis capabilities, encompassing both Cloud Data Integration and Cloud Application Integration.
The Cloud Assurance Pack CAI Asset Analyzer conducts an analysis of Cloud Application Integration assets, like Processes, Guides, Application Connections and Service Connectors. During this analysis, a select set of key parameters are extracted from each asset. This extraction process provides valuable insights that enhance understanding of the assets' functionality and behavior. By using these insights, users can leverage activity types and properties to assess and subsequently improve the performance of the assets.
During execution of a Cloud Data Integration mapping task on a Secure Agent, computations associated with mapping transformations are performed by Secure Agent services, incurring time and resource consumption. Even for tasks absent of mapping transformations, substantial data transfer may occur across the network, proportional to both the task frequency and data volume.
To overcome this, the Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack empowers users to identify tasks that may be configurable with SQL ELT or advanced pushdown optimization.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack gives users the option to pick several tasks, taskflows, or other assets that can be scheduled to run and then either associate or disassociate schedules.
This feature helps users identify the tasks where certain user-defined custom components are utilized.
Meta Insights Activity Tracker is a critical component of the Cloud Assurance Pack, designed to provide organizations with comprehensive tracking and visibility of changes across their cloud data assets.
The Assurance Score serves as a quantitative indicator of an organization's overall health. This score is calculated using an artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithm.
Elevating your Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) environment to a state of operational excellence is now within your reach. This in-depth learning path equips you with the knowledge and skills to fully leverage IDMC Cloud Assurance Pack. Explore the features and benefits of this powerful suite of tools, and gain practical guidance on configuration, getting started, key use cases, and best practices for maximizing performance and compliance.
This learning path is ideal for IDMC DevOps engineers, administrators, and developers.
Informatica Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is foundational to your digital transformation. It is therefore critical to mitigate the risk of any disruptions and ensure your IDMC environment is running at the highest performance and optimal efficiency. The IDMC Cloud Assurance Pack supports CDI/CAI/MDM SaaS services. It simplifies the upgrade process, understands the impact of new release features (CDI/CAI), performs seamless asset deployments between organizations (CDI/CAI), performs on-demand health checks, analyzes the agent and the task logs, tracks important configuration changes in one place, and offers many more capabilities for the supported services.
Mitigate Risk and Reduce Costs with AI-Powered Application Performance Management
Describes roles and privileges made available when Cloud Assurance Pack license is enabled; documents privileges required to execute various product functions.
The Upgrade analysis capability of the Cloud Assurance Pack helps users identify the CDI and CAI assets that are more likely to be impacted as part of an upcoming upgrade, and is intended to help users form regression test suites that can be tested in an Informatica Cloud Pre-Release Organization environment.
The Task Observer capability of the Cloud Assurance Pack is a tool designed to monitor and analyze the performance of CDI mapping tasks. It helps identify potential issues by reviewing important characteristics like duration, throughput, count of failed runs, count of failed records and count of tasks that processed no records that may indicate potential abnormal behaviour.
The Cloud Assurance Pack System health check is a set of standard health check rules that can be applied to most customer setups. These rules are designed to identify common problems that can affect system health.
Users can create and maintain their own rules based on their business health check needs using the My Health Check feature in Cloud Assurance Pack.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack offers a powerful tool known as Metaquery. This functionality empowers users to query the IDMC metadata for key properties associated with mapping tasks and their related attributes. Metaquery allows users to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics and configurations of individual assets within IDMC.
Parameters are placeholders that represent values in a mapping or mapplet. Users may use parameters to hold values that they want to define at runtime, such as a source connection, a target object, or the join condition for a joiner transformation. Parameters can also be used to store values that change between task runs, such as a time stamp that is incremented each time a mapping is run.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack has incorporated a dedicated Parameter File dashboard within the MetaInsights platform. This dashboard grants users a centralized view of all tasks that leverage parameters.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack offers a Connections section that provides a summary of all connections established within the context of the currently logged-in IDMC Organization.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack offers a Naming conventions feature that empowers organizations to establish, tailor, and implement specific naming patterns applicable to various asset categories, including tasks, folders, projects, etc.. Users can define multiple patterns leveraging regular expressions for distinct asset types, ensuring consistency in naming conventions throughout the IDMC Organization.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack keeps users informed about their IDMC environment through a variety of notifications.
The Activity Tracker within the Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack includes a recommendation feature. This feature helps users understand which secure agent properties configured for their organization can be optimized to improve performance. The recommendations may also encompass various other relevant insights and include links to KB articles (as applicable) for further user review.
Assurance Score provides insights into how well an IDMC organization is configured across various categories like runtime metrics and Secure Agent administration, best practices around governance and security and performance and pptimization, around task configurations and executions.
The identification of dependencies for PowerCenter objects within the current migration process to a cloud environment relies on manual impact analysis. This approach necessitates multiple iterations to confirm the presence of all relevant objects within the system before testing the converted mappings. This manual effort dedicated to identifying dependent objects for user workflows and mappings, along with subsequent confirmation of their existence in the user environment, consumes a significant amount of time. The primary challenge associated with this process is the manual nature of the impact analysis, leading to wasted time during testing due to back-and-forth email communication with customers.
The Metadata Dependency Check utility addresses this challenge by introducing an automated solution. This tool generates a comprehensive report that details all impacted objects and their associated properties. The primary objective of this automation tool is to streamline the process by reducing manual effort for customers and their implementation partners, ultimately saving valuable time.
This article details the process of validating PowerCenter mappings for use within a Cloud Data Warehouse environment. The Validator tool plays a crucial role in ensuring successful mapping execution by verifying the existence of essential components.
The Informatica Cloud Assurance Pack's Compare assets feature allows users to perform a side-by-side comparison between the definition of an asset stored in a PowerCenter workflow XML file and its counterpart within the user's IDMC Organization. This comparison highlights any discrepancies in the asset configuration, enabling users to identify potential issues before deployment or migration.
Goals
- Understand pods, organizations, sub-organizations, and additional organizations.
- Review different styles of environment setup and what use cases they are suited for
- What to expect with Standard and Major IDMC releases:
- Regression practices to implement in a continuous release cycle
- Help identify potential impacts to IDMC organizations
- Discover key use cases and benefits of Cloud Assurance Pack, for proactive risk mitigation, improved governance, reduced cost and risk
Outcome
As an Informatica Cloud Administrator/Architect,
- Understand the various options for setting up and managing IDMC environments
- Discover methods to minimizing operating expenses through automated impact assessments of releases, streamlined deployments, periodic health checks, identify task anomalous behaviors, automated metadata reports, and many other self-serviceable utilities using Cloud Assurance Pack
- Covers general practices for using Orgs, Sub-Orgs, Additional Orgs, Pre-release Orgs, Pods, and Org hierarchy fundamentals to set up environments in IDMC for Cloud Modernization, Governance, SaaS, and hybrid use cases;
- Walks through the effect on common characteristics like runtime environment setup, user management and role-based access provisioning, change management, and project layout;
- Reviews upgrade cycles, regression practices, and built-in BCP features and touches upon Cloud Assurance Service Pack (CAP)
Expert Guidance Session
Required Roles/Personas
- Platform Administrator/Teams
- Enterprise Architect
- Developer
- IT Management (optional)
Engagement Details
Catalog Type
Connect with Architect
Engagement Category
IDMC Platform Setup Guidance
Products
Cloud Assurance Pack
IDMC Platform
Engagement Type
Best Practices
Adoption Stage
Plan
Focus Area
Adoption
Use Cases & Tags
Platform Setup
Engagement ID
PLT-001
Disclaimer
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- Customers need to include their relevant technical/business team highlighted in each engagement topic to derive the best out of each engagement.
- Customers need to perform any hands-on work by themselves leveraging the guidance from these engagements.
- Customers need to work with Informatica Global Customer Support for any product bugs/issues and troubleshooting.
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