The Basics of IICS
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services is Informatica's cloud-based offering for ETL and data integration. It's an iPaaS solution. According to Informatica's website , it "unifies existing Informatica cloud service offerings and expands into a full suite of cloud data management services over time." There are four primary services that you will be greeted with when using IICS: Data Integration, Administration, Monitoring, and Operational Insights: Fortunately, Informatica has a 30-day demo version so I decided to dive in and check it out! Although most of the program is web-based, it's still necessary to install a secure agent locally if you want to get any of the connections, mappings, or other functions working properly. In this case, I decided to install it in Windows using the "agent64_install_ng_ext.6504.exe" executable. A word of caution: this only seems to work properly when installing to the default location, so hopefully you weren't set...