Re: OT: Learning Curve for Informatica ETL Products

From: paquette stephane <stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:19:27 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00342865.20010706013124@fatcity.com>

Hi,

We're currently using Powermart. I'm not developping the mappings but I'm checking what the developpers are doing. I've used Sagent tool a little bit and at a client we've developped the ETL tool ourselves.

Powermart is not an easy tool to learn.

At my request, we finally have an Informatica consultant in house to look at what we've done so far (yesterday and today). Like all tools, you can do things by yourself but you can't achieve performance without an expert.

There are things you want to do in Oracle and not in the ETL tool so you have some choices to do. I like to put some intellingence in the metadata and have the programs to act accordingly to what the metadata contains. The developpers could not figure out how to do this, the Informatica consultant will show us that this afternoon.

So bottom-line, it is not an easy tool to learn.

Also, you really need a 21 inches screen to work with Powermart.

Stephane

• Larry Elkins <elkinsl_at_flash.net> a écrit : > Listers,
  >
  > For any of you who use Informatica ETL products such
  > as PowerMart and/or
  > PowerCenter, how steep is the learning curve for
  > these products? I know
  > there are lots of variables such as how quickly does
  > the person pick up new
  > things, are we talking about learning the basics and
  > doing simple tasks, or,
  > doing advanced things, etc. For example, with some
  > products, one can quickly
  > learn to perform basic functions, but, there can be
  > a steep learning curve
  > to perform advanced functions.
  >
  > Just curious about the complexity and
  > ease/difficulty of getting up to speed
  > on these tools.
  >
  > Regards,
  >
  > Larry G. Elkins
  > elkinsl_at_flash.net
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