We are happy to launch Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service as a generally available offering. This is a result of a close collaboration between Microsoft and Informatica. This integration enables creation and management of Informatica organizations and serverless runtime environments within the Azure Management console. With serverless runtime environments, you are not required to instantiate VMs in your Azure tenants to install Informatica secure agents. You can focus on creation of their data management tasks without worrying about managing the infrastructure. You can find the Informatica announcement here
Azure Native ISV Services enable you to easily provision, manage, and tightly integrate ISV software and services on Azure. By leveraging the power of Azure, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service, offers you a range of benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. It also provides secure connectivity to Informatica’s IDMC portal using single sign-on via Azure portal, CLI, and SDK. You can easily sign up for this service via the Azure Marketplace.
Managing Informatica Secure Agent infrastructure in your Azure tenant could be an elaborate and time-consuming task, requiring expertise in areas such as networking, security, and scaling. By using serverless run time environments, you can focus on integration mappings while Informatica manages the underlying Infrastructure.
Key Capabilities
Seamless onboarding: You can create an Informatica Organization or Link an existing Informatica Organization in Azure pod from Azure portal, CLI or SDK like any other Azure resource. For example, you can discover the service from search bar in Azure portal.
Figure 1: Informatica IDMC – Azure Native ISV Service in Azure portal
Figure 2: Creating the IDMC Azure Native ISV Service from the Azure portal
Figure 3: Linking an existing IDMC Organization in Azure pod to Azure Native ISV Service from the Azure portal
- Single sign-on to IDMC portal: An auto generated SSO link securely redirects you to IDMC portal.
Figure 4: Newly created Informatica organization resource with SSO URL on Overview page.
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Figure 5: The SSO URL redirects to the newly created Informatica organization in the IDMC portal
- Management of IDMC serverless runtime environments: Within the Azure portal, you can create and manage Informatica Cloud Data Integration Advanced Serverless, a service of IDMC, to eliminate the need for creating VMs to run secure agents.
Figure 6: Serverless runtime created from Azure portal with management options highlighted
Figure 7: Serverless runtime in Informatica portal
- Azure SDK and CLI integration: You can easily manage IDMC resources from the Azure Java, Java Script, Python, Go and .NET SDKs and from command line interfaces like Azure CLI, PowerShell. This enables you to automate repetitive tasks and complex processes using scripts and provides greater flexibility and customization in managing Azure resources. CLIs can also easily be integrated into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling seamless integration with DevOps practices and workflows.
Get started with Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service
- Setup and subscribe to your Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV, from Azure Marketplace.
- Follow the documentation to create an Informatica organization and run time environments to deploy your integration mappings.
