The majority of tasks when migrating from PowerCenter to IICS should be seamless, but not for all. Your Informatica developer or consulting team will still need to validate and potentially alter some elements!
Migrating from PowerCenter to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) involves several steps to ensure a smooth transition of your data integration processes.
Here’s a general overview of the migration process:
- Assessment: Understand the scope of your PowerCenter implementation. Identify the workflows, mappings, transformations, schedules, and dependencies within your PowerCenter environment.
- Inventory and Analysis: Create an inventory of all PowerCenter objects including mappings, workflows, sessions, and dependencies. Analyze the existing implementation to determine the level of complexity and any potential challenges in migration.
- Choose Migration Strategy:
- Replatform: This involves moving your existing PowerCenter workloads to IICS without significant modifications.
- Reimplement: Redesign your workflows and mappings using the native capabilities of IICS. This approach might be necessary if your PowerCenter implementation is outdated or if you want to leverage new features in IICS.
- Hybrid Approach: Combine elements of both replatforming and reimplementing, depending on the requirements of each workflow or mapping.
- Data Migration: Transfer metadata, mappings, configurations, and other relevant artifacts from PowerCenter to IICS. You may need to use Informatica’s provided tools or scripts for this purpose.
- Rebuilding Workflows and Mappings: Recreate workflows, mappings, and transformations in IICS based on the analysis conducted earlier. Utilize IICS features such as Cloud Mapping Designer and Cloud Data Integration for this step.
- Testing: Perform comprehensive testing of migrated workflows and mappings to ensure that they function correctly in the IICS environment. This includes unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing.
- Deployment: Once testing is successful, deploy the migrated workflows and mappings into production environment. Monitor the performance and stability of the migrated processes closely during initial deployment.
- Training and Knowledge Transfer: Provide training to users and administrators on how to use and manage the migrated workflows in IICS. Ensure that the team is familiar with the new environment and its features.
- Post-Migration Support: Offer support and assistance to users during the initial period after migration. Address any issues or concerns that arise and provide guidance on optimizing performance in the new environment.
Throughout the migration process, it’s essential to communicate effectively with stakeholders and keep them informed about the progress and any potential impacts on their operations. Additionally, document the migration steps and decisions made along the way for future reference.
Give us a call or send an enquiry to set-up a PowerCenter to IICS migration consultation.
Best wishes,
Max T. Russ
VP, Business Development
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