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Features and Benefits

Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for Informatica extends Workload Automation, enabling IT staff to schedule

Informatica jobs through the Workload Automation interface. It simplifies job scheduling and respects the

integrity and security of the Informatica environment.

This adapter, with Cisco Workload Automation, delivers standardized and centralized scriptless scheduling for

both simple and complex processes and thorough tracking and alerting capabilities. These capabilities work in

conjunction to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and support enterprise objectives, allowing IT staff to focus on

innovation and strategic initiatives. Specific capabilities include:

Control and Visibility – Cisco Workload Automation provides robust flexibility in developing ETL processing

steps, giving users the ability to develop complex workflows that merge any ETL process and enterprise

resource planning (ERP) application into a cohesive, centrally managed business process.

During execution, real-time task status details are visible from the job activity console of Workload Automation.

Additionally, the adapter permits Informatica users to cancel, abort, recover, or rerun workflows from Cisco

Workload Automation, a feature that provides added control over the Informatica environment.

When a job is complete, the adapter returns its final output, which can then be used to control downstream jobs,

as well as details associated with the job run. Because Informatica jobs are defined like any other Workload

Automation job, users can take full advantage of job, file, and variable dependencies, calendars, events,

monitoring, and error notifications. In addition, they can benefit from detailed runtime error detection, alerts, and

automated remediation.

Seamless Support for Ad Hoc and Scheduled Informatica Jobs – Business unit managers frequently make

ad hoc ETL job requests that must be run immediately. Gradually, these jobs begin to be reused and fall into

predictable patterns. For efficiency, they should be organized into calendars or schedules. Workload

Automation, in conjunction with Informatica PowerCenter, allows ad hoc jobs to be easily transferred to standard

production runs, eliminating manual intervention in the ETL job scheduling process. Working together, these two

solutions also enable IT operations staff to incorporate Informatica data management processes into

established IT policies and to seamlessly update run book operations.