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Give a difference between a powerhouse and a repository server?

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Give a difference between a powerhouse and a repository server?

posted Feb 27, 2015 by Amit Sharma

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Informatica Server and PowerCenter Server both mean the same. It is concerned with running of sessions and workflows.
The Repository Server or the Informatica Rep Server is concerned with connecting to the repository through the Rep Agent. One Repository Server can connect to many repositories at a time.
For the PowerCenter Server to be up and working , it is necessary that the Repository Server is running.

Power Center is product of Informatica. Its advantage is build it once and deploy it anywhere. In Informatica Architecture we have 3 major components called:
1. Client tools (designer,workflow manager and workflow monitor).
2. Repository server: It stores the meta data(data about the data). All the information stored by Informatica but job done by Informatica server.
3. Informatica server: In this all the extract and loding done but it does not know anything about what is source, targeta and transformation.

answer Feb 27, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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