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Why Organizations Choose Informatica MDM Tool for Business Growth?
What is Informatica MDM?
MDM stands for Master Data Management. Siperian company was specialized in MDM and was acquired by Informatica later. MDM was integrated with Informatica’s suite of products Data Quality (DQ) and Power ...
Features of PDF Unlocker Utility Software Its Necessity and Benefits
Summary: This segment profoundly discusses about the need of protecting PDF’s along with situation to unlock them later with third party utilities like PDF Unlocker by BitRecover and its benefits over other tools.
Portable ...
Informatica 10: Data Integration Advantageous Features Over Other Tools
Informatica, being a software development company offers different products for data integration. The products that are offered solves the purpose of data masking, ETL, data virtualization, data quality, master management of data, data ...
Resolve ERROR: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.io.MalformedInputException"
Recently I stuck with the issue while login into MDM HUB 9.7 and the issue is:
ERROR: "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.io.MalformedInputException" while logging into the Hub Console in MDM 9.7
If you face the same error while logging t...
Migrate Thunderbird to Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007
This informative article is describing the process to migrate Thunderbird to Microsoft Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007. After read the article users can migrate Thunderbird to Outlook 2016 without having difficulties.
In...
Speed Up Your Google Chrome
Hello readers, today I guide you to "How to speed up your google chrome".
Google-chrome is the most developed and effective browsers available to you, and it could be a reasonable implication that it is a comparatively rich...
Substitute Language in PIM Export
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Overview
A substitute language can be defined in export. It is put to use so that if a value is not present in the requested language then that value is output in the defined substitute language.
In the main module this f...
Schedule and perform Data Quality Checks in PIM
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Overview:
Quality checks can be carried out when required. Quality checks can be initiated in different ways:
- by a defined event or on a fixed date
- by a direct request
Schedu...
Maintaining Media Attachment in PIM-Web
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Overview
Select the option in the context selection menu to access media attachments. All media attachments that have been created and exist in PIM Desktop are listed here in a hierarchical tree structure. The tran...
Search in Multimedia data
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Overview
In earlier versions of PIM, the only way to select multimedia documents for manual assignment to PIM objects was to navigate using the category tree. The Documents view provided access to the documents in the selected categor...
MIME data in Informatica PIM
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Multimedia overview
Catalog items contain raw data as well as MIME data. MIME refers to Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It is an internet standard that contains data in the form of images or text document...
Importing structured data
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This blog post gives a brief about the process that needs to be followed to import structured data in PIM.
Overview
Importing structured data includes a sequence of steps that should be followed in order to complete impor...
Finding items or products in PIM Desktop
Overview
Extensive options are available for finding items, products or their variants in PIM Desktop. First, select the pool of data in which to search. It can be a specific supplier catalog (items only) or master catalog (items or produ...
Maintaining product data in PIM
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Today's post describes about the steps to maintain product data for PIM desktop.
In PIM Desktop, a product is a data record that is used as a container for items of the same type. The Explorer (products) perspective...
Database Installation in PIM set up
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This section will detail out some insight on how to set up the database system for PIM.
PIM Database Pre-Installation Checklist
During database installation:
Create a new schema
Create a user with full read/...
Structure Systems in PIM
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Today we would discuss about Structure Systems in PIM desktop.
Structure systems
Standard structure systems and user-defined structure systems are powerful and flexible tools for organization, navigation and di...
Linking Multimedia data and items in PIM
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Today this post will outline the steps to link items and multimedia files. It explains the use of Multimedia attachments perspective in informatica PIM.
The Multimedia attachments perspective is used to link items and m...
Data Quality checks in PIM
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Today's post discusses about the relevance of quality of data in PIM and its need for easier identification and categorization of data from different sources.
Data quality checks
Quality of data plays a very important role...
Data Manager : Overview
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Today's blog post highlights the use of Data Manager in MDM. It also gives an overview of the various tasks that can be carried out using the same in Informatica MDM hub.
Data Manager Overview
Data Manager is a ...
How to configure Web search in PIM
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Today's blog post provides a short description of the tasks that need to carried out for Web Search Configuration.
How to add an entity like Variant
Remove the previous entity.parent configuration like:
...
Merge Manager
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This blog post provides an overview of the Informatica MDM Merge Manager.
Merge Manager
Merge Manager is a component of the Informatica MDM Hub Data Steward workbench. Merge manager is used to reviewing and merging ...
Informatica AddressDoctor in Action
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Today we will discuss the process flow involved in cleansing an address encountered for the purpose of use by the Master Data Management.
Informatica AddressDoctor is designed to deal with improperly truncated data, in...
Units in PIM
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Today's blog post describes about Units and their relevance in PIM desktop.
Units
A unit system is used to manage all possible units required to specify a size. PIM Desktop is supplied with its own unit system, whic...
MDM (Master data Management) vs PIM (Product Information Management)
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Today we would be discussing about a very important aspect of MDM and PIM. This blog post point out variations between the two.
Various analysts reckon PIM as a fragment of MDM. For instance, MDM is defined as the ...
Manage Users in PIM
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Today's blog post details out about Administration in PIM. It highlights the aspects of managing users and steps to carry out the same.
User management is generally carried out as part of the administration. A permission...
PIM for Search Engine Optimization
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Today's post will discuss in detail about role of PIM in optimizing the search results received from the search engine. It is very essential to filter the results as per their relevance. According to the statistics more than ...
Audit Trails in PIM Desktop
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Today we would discuss about the importance of Audit Trails in PIM Desktop.
Audit Trail
An audit trail comprises the transaction with a record of each stage involved in it. It aids in simplifying problem administration by tracing t...
How to create tasks in PIM
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This blog post gives a brief overview of tasks in PIM. It also illustrates the steps to create, sort and accept tasks.
Tasks
The tasks that are created manually or by a workflow are represented in a tree structure. These ...
REST API in PIM
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The agenda for this post is to introduce REST API in PIM. PIM 7.0 and higher versions come with a set of pre-defined reports and services. These REST services expose the data from PIM and allow to access it so that it can b...
Manage Export in PIM
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This post gives and overview of the Export module in PIM. It describes how Export works in Product Information data.
Export
The export module in PIM Desktops is used to export the product data to electronic catalogs. I...
PIM workflows
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Today we will discuss about workflows for PIM Desktop. The steps to interrupt or continue an active workflow.
Workflows
A workflow is a group of tasks that are organized in order to automate any business process. ...
Data Consolidation Process in MDM hub console
MDM "The Master Data Management" as the name suggested MDM is set of tool and process which is much secure used by enterprises regularly maintain their data and information. It is helpful in maintaining data easily and keep track of data for easy...
Best practices to create match rules in MDM
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The intention of this blog is to provide directions for tuning match rules in Informatica MDM.
Steps for Match Rules Setup and Tuning
Data Audit
Data analysis can be performed only for the use of the match process or a...
PIM- launching the client (overview)
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Todays blog will throw some light on the PIM desktop and the various features and options available to manage and configure the same.
Launching the client
PIM Desktop works on the client/server concept. In order to use the cl...
PIM Desktop -Data Import
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Todays blog post explains the data import process in Informatica PIM desktop and the various stages that follow.
Firstly, it is important to understand what exactly Product Information Management (PIM) is and why is it usef...
What is User Exit and how to add User Exit in MDM Hub?
User Exit is a customize java code, that will help you to manipulate with the data before referring it as GOLDEN.
There are many class provided by Informatica for User Exit such as postLoadUserExit, postMatchUserExit etc.
Example: Suppose I h...
How to create User in MDM Hub?
Below are the steps to create a user in MDM Hub and assign ORS to user:
Step 1: Launch the jnlp file.
Step 2: Enter you credential, select the ORS.
Step 3: Under Workbench, select Users.
Step 4: Connect to Master Database.
Step 5: Acquire Lo...
How to register an ORS in MDM Hub?
Below are the steps to register an ORS in MDM Hub:
Step 1: Launch the jnlp file.
Step 2: Enter you credential, select the ORS.
Step 3: Under Workbench, select Database.
Step 4: Connect to Master Database.
Step 5: Acquire Lock, click on Regis...
How to Promote the changes from one ORS to another in MDM Hub?
Below are the steps to promote the changes from one ORS to another:
Step 1: Launch the jnlp file.
Step 2: Enter you credential, select the ORS.
Step 3: Under Workbench, select Repository Manager.
Step 4: Connect to Master Database.
Step 5: U...
How to import an ORS in MDM Hub?
Below are the steps to Import an ORS:
Step 1: Launch the jnlp file.
Step 2: Enter you credential, select the ORS.
Step 3: Under Workbench, select Repository Manager.
Step 4: Connect to Master Database.
Step 5: Under Validate tab, validate th...
How to export an ORS in MDM Hub?
Below are the steps to Export an ORS:
Step 1: Launch the jnlp file.
Step 2: Enter you credential, select the ORS.
Step 3: Under Workbench, select Repository Manager.
Step 4: Connect to Master Database.
Step 5: Under Validate tab, validate th...
How to validate an ORS in MDM Hub?
Below are the steps to validate an ORS:
Step 1: Launch the jnlp file.
Step 2: Enter you credential, select the ORS.
Step 3: Under Workbench, select Repository Manager.
Step 4: Connect to Master Database.
Step 5: Select the repository to va...
Significance of Workflow Reassignment in MDM
Workflow Reassignment describe the data changes through the defined workflow and track which change is in what status.
Workflow Reassignment enable business users, data stewards and data owners to author and validate master data in the MDM hub...
SIF Authentication test using SoapUI
You can test the SIF Authentication API using SoapUI. WSDL link for Generic API will be http://MyHostName:MyPortNo/cmx/request/wsdl/ . Create a project in SoapUI and this WSDL link to it. Expand the project and open authenticate method and doubl...
Sample Query to fetch matched record from BO
Using the below query you can retrieve the records from the BO in which you execute the Match Job(manual merge) and to determine which records matched with other.
select distinct(finalquery.src_rowid),
finalquery.party_nm,
finalquery.PARTY_...
SIF API to get Hub State Ind of Record
If you want to get Hub State Ind of Record in Base Object, you can use following code illustration for same:
GetRequest req = new GetRequest();
req.setSiperianObjectUid("BASE_OBJECT.MY_BASE_OBJECT"); // Name of the BO
RecordKey...
SIF API to Search a data in Base Object
If you have a requirement to search data in Base Object, you can use SearchQueryRequest SIF API for same. Following example illustrate fetching first name of employee using employee id.
SearchQueryRequest request = new SearchQueryRequest();
r...
SIF API to Generate Match Tokens on Base Object
Following example illustrate how you can Generate Match Token for ALL records in Base Object using SIF API:
ExecuteBatchGenerateMatchTokensRequest req = new ExecuteBatchGenerateMatchTokensRequest();
req.setTableName("MY_BASE_OBJECT"); //...
Lookup Concept in MDM
As the term "Lookup" itself defines, you are finding something(looking for).
Basically, lookup is applied in FK's column to load the data in BO. It act a key to Load the data between two BO.
Consider an example:
You have two BO Postal Ad...
How to exclude the records from Match and Merge?
To exclude a record(s) completely remove from Match and Merge process, regardless of any source system, using Informatica MDM.
Step 1: Add a not nuable column is BO as EXCLUDE_FROM_MATCH, with type integer and a default value 0.
Step 2: Set t...
