Informatica® Cloud Data Profiling
July 2024
Introduction
Informatica Cloud Data Profiling Introduction
July 2024
July 2024
© Copyright Informatica LLC 2019, 2024
This software and documentation are provided only under a separate license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure. No part of this document may be
reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without prior consent of Informatica LLC.
Informatica and the Informatica logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica LLC in the United States and many jurisdictions throughout the world. A
current list of Informatica trademarks is available on the web at https://www.informatica.com/trademarks.html. Other company and product names may be trade
names or trademarks of their respective owners.
Subject to your opt-out rights, the software will automatically transmit to Informatica in the USA information about the computing and network environment in which the
Software is deployed and the data usage and system statistics of the deployment. This transmission is deemed part of the Services under the Informatica privacy policy
and Informatica will use and otherwise process this information in accordance with the Informatica privacy policy available at
https://www.informatica.com/in/privacy-policy.html. You may disable usage collection in Administrator tool.
U.S. GOVERNMENT RIGHTS Programs, software, databases, and related documentation and technical data delivered to U.S. Government customers are "commercial
computer software" or "commercial technical data" pursuant to the applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation and agency-specific supplemental regulations. As such,
the use, duplication, disclosure, modification, and adaptation is subject to the restrictions and license terms set forth in the applicable Government contract, and, to the
extent applicable by the terms of the Government contract, the additional rights set forth in FAR 52.227-19, Commercial Computer Software License.
Portions of this software and/or documentation are subject to copyright held by third parties. Required third party notices are included with the product.
See patents at https://www.informatica.com/legal/patents.html.
The information in this documentation is subject to change without notice. If you find any problems in this documentation, report them to us at
[email protected].
Informatica products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the agreements under which they are provided. INFORMATICA PROVIDES THE
INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Publication Date: 2024-07-19
Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Informatica Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Informatica Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Informatica Knowledge Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Informatica Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Informatica Product Availability Matrices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Velocity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Marketplace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 1: Introduction to Informatica Cloud Data Profiling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Data Profiling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Operational Insights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2: Data Profiling tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Explore Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 3: Informatica resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services web site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Communities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Marketplace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Informatica Product Availability Matrices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Informatica Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Informatica Knowledge Base. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Table of Contents 3
Preface
Read Introduction to learn about the tasks that you can perform using Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
Data Profiling.
Informatica Resources
Informatica provides you with a range of product resources through the Informatica Network and other online
portals. Use the resources to get the most from your Informatica products and solutions and to learn from
other Informatica users and subject matter experts.
Informatica Network
The Informatica Network is the gateway to many resources, including the Informatica Knowledge Base and
Informatica Global Customer Support. To enter the Informatica Network, visit
https://network.informatica.com.
As an Informatica Network member, you have the following options:
• Search the Knowledge Base for product resources.
• View product availability information.
• Create and review your support cases.
• Find your local Informatica User Group Network and collaborate with your peers.
Informatica Knowledge Base
Use the Informatica Knowledge Base to find product resources such as how-to articles, best practices, video
tutorials, and answers to frequently asked questions.
To search the Knowledge Base, visit https://search.informatica.com. If you have questions, comments, or
ideas about the Knowledge Base, contact the Informatica Knowledge Base team at
[email protected].
Informatica Documentation
Use the Informatica Documentation Portal to explore an extensive library of documentation for current and
recent product releases. To explore the Documentation Portal, visit https://docs.informatica.com.
If you have questions, comments, or ideas about the product documentation, contact the Informatica
Documentation team at [email protected].
4
Informatica Product Availability Matrices
Product Availability Matrices (PAMs) indicate the versions of the operating systems, databases, and types of
data sources and targets that a product release supports. You can browse the Informatica PAMs at
https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/product-availability-matrices.
Informatica Velocity
Informatica Velocity is a collection of tips and best practices developed by Informatica Professional Services
and based on real-world experiences from hundreds of data management projects. Informatica Velocity
represents the collective knowledge of Informatica consultants who work with organizations around the
world to plan, develop, deploy, and maintain successful data management solutions.
You can find Informatica Velocity resources at http://velocity.informatica.com. If you have questions,
comments, or ideas about Informatica Velocity, contact Informatica Professional Services at
[email protected].
Informatica Marketplace
The Informatica Marketplace is a forum where you can find solutions that extend and enhance your
Informatica implementations. Leverage any of the hundreds of solutions from Informatica developers and
partners on the Marketplace to improve your productivity and speed up time to implementation on your
projects. You can find the Informatica Marketplace at https://marketplace.informatica.com.
Informatica Global Customer Support
You can contact a Global Support Center through the Informatica Network or by telephone.
To find online support resources on the Informatica Network, click Contact Support in the Informatica
Intelligent Cloud Services Help menu to go to the Cloud Support page. The Cloud Support page includes
system status information and community discussions. Log in to Informatica Network and click Need Help to
find additional resources and to contact Informatica Global Customer Support through email.
The telephone numbers for Informatica Global Customer Support are available from the Informatica web site
at https://www.informatica.com/services-and-training/support-services/contact-us.html.
Preface 5
Chapter 1
Introduction to Informatica Cloud
Data Profiling
Informatica Cloud Data Profiling is one of several services available in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
Data Profiling is an on-demand subscription service that you can use to create data profiling tasks. You can
create and run a data profiling task on a data source to determine the quality of data and understand the
completeness, conformity, and consistency of data.
When you log in to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, the My Services page displays the services that
apply to Data Profiling. The My Services page might also include other services that you subscribe to and
trial versions of other services.
The following services apply to Data Profiling:
• Administrator. Perform administrative tasks such as creating users and managing privileges, downloading
Secure Agents and configuring runtime environments, configuring connections, managing licenses, and
creating schedules. For more information about the administrative tasks, see Administrator in the
Administrator help.
• Data Quality. Create rule specifications and dictionaries. You can add one or more rule specifications to a
data profiling task in Data Profiling. For information about creating rule specifications, see Rule
Specifications in the Data Quality help.
• Monitor. Check the status of tasks that are in progress and tasks that have completed. For more
information about monitoring jobs, see Monitor in the Monitor help.
• Operational Insights. View the performance and operational efficiency of data profiling tasks across your
enterprise. View enterprise health, domain-level analytics, job and workflow statistics, and node-level
resource consumption.
The following image shows the My Services page with some of the services that apply to Data Profiling:
6
Data Profiling
Use Data Profiling to create and run data profiling tasks. In Data Profiling, data profiling tasks are also called
profiles.
When you run a profile on a source object, the results include the following column statistics:
• Number of distinct, non-distinct, and null values
• Percentage of distinct, non-distinct, and null values
• Documented and inferred data types
• Number of patterns
• Percentage of top pattern
• Maximum and minimum length of values
• Maximum and minimum values
• Average, sum, and standard deviation for numeric data types
• Value frequencies
• Outliers
You can run data profiling tasks on relational data sources and flat file data sources.
When you select Data Profiling from the My Services page, the Explore page appears as shown in the
following image:
Data Profiling 7
You can access the following pages from the navigation bar for Data Profiling:
• New. Create data profiling tasks.
• Explore. Create and manage projects, folders, and assets.
• My Jobs. View the status of your data profiling and exception jobs.
• My Import/Export Logs. View the status of your imports and exports.
Note: You can open a profiling task and an exception task from the Explore page in Data Quality.
Administrator
Administrative tasks for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services are performed in the Administrator service.
When you select Administrator from the My Services page, the navigation bar provides options for
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services administration, as shown in the following image:
8 Chapter 1: Introduction to Informatica Cloud Data Profiling
The following options are available based on your licenses:
• Organization. Manage your organization details and your sub-organizations.
• Licenses. View licenses for your organization and manage your sub-organization licenses.
• Ecosystem single sign-on. When you create your organization through Microsoft Azure, configure some
single sign-on properties for Azure users.
• SAML Setup. Configure SAML single sign-on settings.
• Settings. Configure source control settings and upgrade settings for Secure Agent services.
• Users. Add new users. Configure user groups and roles for individual users.
• User Groups. Create user groups. Assign users to user groups.
• User Roles. Manage user roles for your organization. Configure the privileges associated with each role.
• Runtime Environments. Configure Secure Agents and Secure Agent groups.
• Connections. Create and manage connections.
• Add-On Connectors. Install add-on connectors.
• Schedules. Create and manage schedules for tasks.
• Add-On Bundles. Install, uninstall, upgrade, and copy bundles for your organization.
• Swagger Files. Generate swagger files for REST V2 connections.
• Logs. View asset and security logs.
• File servers. Configure file transfer servers and file transfer users to allow remote partners to send files to
your organization.
Monitor
Use Monitor to monitor jobs, imports, and exports in your organization. A job is an instance of a mapping,
task, or taskflow.
When you select Monitor from the My Services page, the navigation bar provides options for monitoring
activity, as shown in the following image:
The navigation bar provides the following options:
• Running Jobs. Provides run-time details about the Data Integration jobs that are running or have
completed within the last five minutes.
• All Jobs. Provides details about all Data Integration jobs in the organization.
• Data Ingestion. Provides details about the Mass Ingestion jobs in the organization.
• Import/Export Logs. Provides details about imports and exports that are running and that have completed.
• File Transfer Logs. Provides details about the file transfers in the organization.
Monitor 9
• Source Control Logs. Provides a log of actions on source-controlled objects in the organization.
To view details about a specific job, import instance, or export instance, click the instance name.
Operational Insights
Use Operational Insights to view the performance and operational efficiency of data profiling assets across
your enterprise. In Operational Insights, you can also view enterprise health, domain-level analytics, job and
workflow statistics, and node-level resource consumption.
When you select Operational Insights from the My Services page, the Home page appears, as shown in the
following image:
The navigation bar shows Data Profiling. To view details about a specific job, click the instance name.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services security
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services uses authentication and encryption to ensure that data is secure and
available only to users within the organization. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services uses industry approved
algorithms to encrypt sensitive information. All customer data is encrypted at rest using an AES-256 key.
Data in transit is encrypted using the TLS 1.2 protocol.
For more information, see the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center.
10 Chapter 1: Introduction to Informatica Cloud Data Profiling
Chapter 2
Data Profiling tools
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services provides the following tools that you can use for data profiling:
• Projects
• Assets
• Explore page
Projects
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services assets are organized in projects. You can create multiple projects. A
project can contain one or more folders or assets such as data profiling and rule specifications.
For example, you might have a business need to provide monthly analyses of your company's sales activity.
You create a project called Monthly Sales Analysis. You create folders that contain the assets that you use on
a monthly basis to integrate and run Data profiling tasks on the data from various systems to perform your
analysis.
11
Assets
In Data Profiling, you can create data profiling tasks. You can create rule specifications in Data Quality and
add them as rules to data profiling tasks. Rule specifications are Data Quality assets that define the data
requirements of a business rule in logical form.
Explore Page
Use the Explore page to work with your data profiling projects, folders, and assets. The Explore page shows
the assets created in the organization, which includes data profiling tasks and rule specifications.
Finding projects, folders, and assets on the Explore page
Use any of the following methods to find your projects, folders, and assets on the Explore page:
• Explore by projects and folders. View all projects or select a particular project.
• Explore by asset types. View all assets or view assets of a particular type.
• Explore by tags. View assets associated with a particular tag.
• Search for projects or assets. To search all projects, folders, and assets in the organization, view the
Explore page by All Projects, and then enter a name or description in the Find box. Or, to narrow your
search, view the Explore page by All Assets, select a specific asset type, project, or folder, and then enter
a name or description in the Find box.
• Sort the search results. Sort the Explore page by name, last update date, description, or type. When you
sort by type, the Explore page groups assets by asset type. It does not list the asset types in alphabetical
order.
• Filter the objects on the page. To filter objects, click the Filter icon. To apply a filter, click Add Field, select
the property to filter by, and then enter the property value. The filters available depend on how you view
the page. You can specify multiple filters.
For example, to find all the assets in your organization with the tag SW Region, view the Explore page by
All Assets and then click the Filter icon. Add the Tags filter and enter "SW Region."
You can see projects, folders, and assets for Data Profiling. If you select an asset to open it or perform an
action, and the asset is created in a different service than the one you have open, the service opens in a new
browser tab.
The Explore page does not support the following characters:
# ? ` | { } " ^ & [ ] / \
Do not use these characters in project, folder, asset, or tag names.
Working with projects and assets on the Explore page
Perform actions on projects, folders, and assets on the Explore page. To see what actions you can perform
on an object, in the row that contains the object, click Actions, as shown in the following image:
12 Chapter 2: Data Profiling tools
The Actions menu lists the actions you can perform based on your user role privileges and the permissions
specified for the selected object. For example, your user role might have privileges to view and run tasks but
not to delete tasks. You might not have permission to run a task because of the permissions set by the
creator of the task.
You can also perform an action on multiple objects at one time. Select the check box to the left of each
object, or select the Select All check box to select all of the objects that are displayed on the current page.
The following image shows the Select All check box in use:
After you select the objects, click the Actions icon in the row of any of the selected objects. The Actions
menu lists the actions available for the selected assets based on your user role and privileges.
Alternatively, use the Selection menu to choose the action, as shown in the following image:
Explore Page 13
Customizing the Explore page
You can display, hide, or rearrange columns on the Explore page. To display or hide columns, right-click the
column heading area and check or uncheck the columns as shown in the following image:
To rearrange columns, click a column heading and drag it to a different location.
14 Chapter 2: Data Profiling tools
Chapter 3
Informatica resources
In addition to the online help, you can find information about Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services using the
following resources.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services web site
You can access the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services web site at http://www.informatica.com/cloud.
This site contains information about Informatica Cloud integration services.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Communities
Use the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Community to discuss and resolve technical issues. You can
also find technical tips, documentation updates, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Access the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Community at:
https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration
Developers can learn more and share tips at the Cloud Developer community:
https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/products/cloud-integration/cloud-
developers
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Marketplace
Visit the Informatica Marketplace to try and buy Data Integration Connectors, templates, and mapplets:
https://marketplace.informatica.com/
15
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center
The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center provides information about Informatica security
policies and real-time system availability.
You can access the trust center at https://www.informatica.com/trust-center.html.
Subscribe to the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Trust Center to receive upgrade, maintenance, and
incident notifications. The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Status page displays the production status
of all the Informatica cloud products. All maintenance updates are posted to this page, and during an outage,
it will have the most current information. To ensure you are notified of updates and outages, you can
subscribe to receive updates for a single component or all Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
components. Subscribing to all components is the best way to be certain you never miss an update.
To subscribe, on the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Status page, click SUBSCRIBE TO UPDATES. You
can choose to receive notifications sent as emails, SMS text messages, webhooks, RSS feeds, or any
combination of the four.
Informatica Product Availability Matrices
Product Availability Matrices (PAMs) indicate the versions of the operating systems, databases, and types of
data sources and targets that a product release supports. You can browse the Informatica PAMs at
https://network.informatica.com/community/informatica-network/product-availability-matrices.
Informatica Documentation
Use the Informatica Documentation Portal to explore an extensive library of documentation for current and
recent product releases. To explore the Documentation Portal, visit https://docs.informatica.com.
If you have questions, comments, or ideas about the product documentation, contact the Informatica
Documentation team at [email protected].
Informatica Knowledge Base
Use the Informatica Knowledge Base to find product resources such as how-to articles, best practices, video
tutorials, and answers to frequently asked questions.
To search the Knowledge Base, visit https://search.informatica.com. If you have questions, comments, or
ideas about the Knowledge Base, contact the Informatica Knowledge Base team at
[email protected].
16 Chapter 3: Informatica resources
Informatica Global Customer Support
You can contact a Global Support Center through the Informatica Network or by telephone.
To find online support resources on the Informatica Network, click Contact Support in the Informatica
Intelligent Cloud Services Help menu to go to the Cloud Support page. The Cloud Support page includes
system status information and community discussions. Log in to Informatica Network and click Need Help to
find additional resources and to contact Informatica Global Customer Support through email.
The telephone numbers for Informatica Global Customer Support are available from the Informatica web site
at https://www.informatica.com/services-and-training/support-services/contact-us.html.
Informatica Global Customer Support 17
Index
A P
assets 12 project folders 11, 12
projects 11, 12
C
Cloud Application Integration community
S
URL 15 security 10
Cloud Developer community status
URL 15 Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services 16
system status 16
D
Data Integration community
T
URL 15 TLS
security 10
trust site
E description 16
Explore page 12
U
I upgrade notifications 16
Informatica Global Customer Support
contact information 5, 17
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
W
web site 15 web site 15
M
maintenance outages 16
18
