Informatica is a product offered by Informatica Inc, its a billion dollar organisation listed in New York stock exchange and launched in 1993. Since then it’s the market leader in ETL solutions. As per Gartner survey, Informatica is still the leader in ETL solutions. Many organisations are using Informatica for their data processing. Hence it offers many jobs in Market.

ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load. These tools help in easily processing the complex raw data and store in proper format for further processing and analytical requirements.

Using ETL Informatica you can process the data from any source system and load into any target system. Like you can fetch thousands or millions of records from Excel sheet and load in oracle. It offers any to any and many too many relationships. Means you can fetch from any source and load in any target. Also there's no limitations on number of sources and number of targets while processing data.

ETL Informatica offers excellent transformations features also to manipulate or convert the data. Using the transformations you can clean your data before you store. There are various transformations like Filter, Aggregator, Sorter, Router, Rank, Joiner, Lookup and many advanced transformations like Sequence Generator, Update Strategy etc

Informatica also offers excellent features like joining the data sources from heterogeneous data sources, like you can join an excel sheet with a xml file. You can join an oracle table with Microsoft SQL server table. Many such features make ETL tools a mandatory in BI data processing.