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About Informatica The digital revolution has escalated expectations and businesses globally must match them to stay relevant. People now expect better services, faster delivery, and reduced costs. Informatica, being the global leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management, is all set to help your business succeed in your niche. It provides you with the foresight to become more agile, realize new growth opportunities, or create new inventions. It provides the adaptability required to succeed in your industry with an emphasis on data. Learn more about Informatica and how to use data to create your next smart disruption. Introduction The success of any business is largely dependent on its open flow of information, and this dependency comes with its own set of liabilities. Organizations are continuously struggling to achieve a balance of open and secure. Using Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) for integrating data from multiple sources into a single system complicates the security model and governance requirements. Hence, having an appropriate and reliable security mechanism in place is very critical for ensuring that you can securely share data with internal and external entities and each of these entities has the right level of access as and when needed. Informatica MDM Cloud — Reference 360 helps you meet all these requirements while also enabling users to master their reference data and adhere to any regulatory obligations. Informatica’s Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS, now IDMC) comes with a security framework built into it making the Informatica MDM Cloud — Reference 360 service offerings, the most comprehensive and flexible security framework. It provides data access security along with the ability to govern, access, and manage security from the baseline. Security administrators and data stewards can tailor user views based on responsibilities, operating groups, and regulatory needs using the IICS security configuration. This feature is specifically beneficial for organizations that are subject to industry or government regulatory obligations by helping them operate in sync with regulatory guidelines and ensuring compliance. The Challenge Today's digital era is so dynamic that organizations need to continuously improve their processes to match the competition. A very essential factor to achieving this is having an efficient method for managing, understanding, and reporting risks. Organizations are dependent on their MDM programs to provide a reliable single version of master data throughout the organization, be able to be agile when adjustments are needed, and be able ot serve it and use it across the different organization departments. Although very few MDM programs are built to protect this critical business asset. This is significant, especially since data-driven disruptions with intelligence have become a key component of defining business strategies. While many organizations use MDM to achieve business-driven objectives, they must ensure security. Overview Informatica's Master Data Management Cloud solution is customizable and extensible to satisfy a wide range of security needs, such as IAM (identity and access management), data security, and monitoring. We enable industries to define and enforce data authority policy directly in the data model and map that to a role-based authorization system. This ensures that the method of interaction with master data abides by the organization’s privacy/compliance/data governance policies. For data domains, we offer role-based security and access control for all data assets across all interfaces for all data domains. IAM (Identity and Access Management) Informatica MDM Cloud — Reference 360 provides state-of-the-art security access controls to prevent any unauthorized access to the data, functionality, and resources. This access control is based on roles and clearly defines the level of privileged access, entitlements, and expertise a user or group can have. It also aligns these privileges with the internal security and access control policies of the organization that manages the master data. Administrators can define the authorization policies by defining the level of privileges to user roles and then assigning users to these roles. These privileges define what level of access a user can have over a certain resource, feature, or functionality. It ensures that the right people have the right level of access and the resource if available at the right time. Here is a logical illustration of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

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While considering a cloud strategy, architects need to create an approach where on-premise, cloud, and data services should coexist. Some of the following aspects need to be considered while considering the integration strategy Data consumption: How applications consume data whether locally and without latency, on-demand and interactively from an external data provider or service Data propagation: How data propagates—for example, via data set synchronization, replication, store and forward or publish/subscribe, messaging, streaming or event-based propagation via service-oriented API requests An application integration strategy needs to also consider how business and data service APIs are provided and consumed Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) offers the means with its integration platform as a service (iPaaS) to integrate and offer data and application services deployed on-premises and in the cloud. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Integration Cloud, a component of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), is offered as an iPaaS that provides near-universal access to application data regardless of its location, format, or origin and integrates applications and application processes regardless of where they are deployed. Integration Cloud provides the means to integrate and deliver: The right data, of the highest quality, at the right time Data to the right place, whether on-premises or in the cloud Data to the right consumer, whether it is a business user or an application Data in the right way, ensuring it is secure and protected Integration Cloud lets you address your application and data integration needs using a variety of integration patterns: API creation and consumption Service orchestration Process automation and integration Message-based integration (publish/subscribe) Business-to-business integration Data synchronization and replication Managed file transfer Bulk and batch data integration and transformations of data sets Handling of structured and unstructured data Integration Cloud—A Differentiated Integration iPaaS Integration Cloud provides the means for your cloud and on-premises applications to coexist. This iPaaS enables access to data wherever it resides— ‘in the cloud and on-premises—delivering trustworthy data while meeting your company’s security and compliance standards. Informatica Cloud Application Integration (CAI) Informatica’s event-driven and service-oriented application integration capabilities encompass event processing, service orchestration, and process management. These are built on Informatica’s business process management technology. Its use within Integration Cloud, embedded within the Cloud Secure Agent, makes it possible to create and consume APIs, orchestrate data services and business services, integrate processes, and offer data and applications services inside and outside an organization. Components Process Server Process Server is a run-time and process management engine that scales to meet the needs of the cloud and enterprises of any size. Execution is carried out by the Process Server. Process Server provides several sophisticated features to ensure business continuity and can be deployed as a cluster in fail over mode to ensure high availability. Process Console Process Console provides a central location from which to manage and configure Process Server instances and their deployed resources whether in the cloud or embedded within Secure Agent. Process Console provides a means to schedule processes and deploys new or updated processes. Process Designer Process Designer is intended to be used by a technical power user—an automation designer’—who may or may not be a developer, but knows the business processes and services used to accomplish them. This designer is designed to be easy to use yet powerful and expressive to create any business process. Process Developer Its optimized and easy-to-use features make it easy for developers to create business process applications quickly. And because these applications are based on industry standards, enterprises’ business logic is freed from proprietary orchestration engines. Secure Agent Cloud Secure Agent is a key component of Informatica’s secure solution. Secure Agent can be installed on-premises or in the cloud depending on connectivity needs. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) supports the next generation of integration platform as a service (iPaaS) integration patterns. Cloud Application Integration (CAI), offered by IICS, provides a unified development environment and a breadth of functionality that guarantees superior ease of use, including a forms-based Service Connector tool that integrates any API with ease, advanced orchestration design capabilities, and ease of deployment.

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Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog is a comprehensive solution for managing data and its metadata in a SaaS solution, providing the data catalog and data governance across all corporate data, regardless of where the data resides. It utilizes the AI capabilities of Informatica CLAIRE and is a feature-rich solution, fully integrated into the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud . With the evolution of the past years, the need for managing data has changed. Relational SQL databases or, even earlier, hierarchical databases, have shifted away from the center of attention. Cloud databases of many kinds are common today, with large CSPs (Cloud Service Providers) such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) or Microsoft Azure providing not just one, but sometimes more than 10 kinds of databases. Big data approaches and analytics solutions have become the focus of attention. The broadened and the new use cases around data also require new categories of solutions: Data Catalogs, Metadata Management, and Data Governance. These three terms are closely related, increasingly resulting in integrated solutions. Metadata Management refers to solutions that enable organizations to manage data across a range of systems, maintaining metadata of the data. This also includes capabilities such as data lineage, i.e., analyzing and documenting the flow of data between various systems. Data Catalogs are where this metadata is stored and managed. A data catalog is a central repository that provides a view of the enterprise data across all managed data stores. It enables the use of such data and delivers the capabilities for "data democratization". Data Governance builds on Metadata Management and enables control of the use and flow of data. Product Description Cloud Data Governance and Catalog is part of the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, thus tightly integrating with the broad range of other services therein. Pricing is, as with the other services, consumption-based.

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